Re: (idm) Chartrunners?

From Ernesto Ikerd
Sent Mon, Jul 6th 1998, 19:35

>Does anyone have a review on this or atleast some comments??
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I havent seen a review either, and Ill not attempt to review it, but 
comments?  

Lets just say experimental comes to mind.  I didnt really find too many 
melodies (stay far away if you like melodies) with the exception of the 
lil polka tunes run thru heavy distortion.  If you are into very bizzarre 
V/VM noise and randomness, youll love it.  

The "booklet" is a xerox fanzine that is supposed to help explain the 
music, but its a bunch of old photos with cryptic poetic captions and 
since I cant read Russian cyrillics the other half of the fanzine was as 
incomprehensible as the record that came packaged in bubblewrap, INSIDE a 
giant Ziploc baggie.  

I cant say Im super-impressed and Ive only listened to it 5 or 6 times so 
I cant say If I hate it or not, but I find it intriguing all the same. 
There *are* about 5 or 6 minutes of very beautiful moments sprinkled 
throughout but yer sittin' through the german 'chicken' dance run thru a 
phaser/flanger and other madness in between.

 It supposed to be limited so you wont lose anything picking it up as Im 
sure the noiseheads and rando-philes on this list would be happy to take 
it off  your hands. Personally, I would have preffered to listen to it 
first but when you mail order I guess you take the good w/the bad!

I still have about 10 more listens to go,
ernie


PS- before the Germans get mad, Im sure the real name of the above 
mentioned 'chicken dance' has some more dignified name, but when I was in 
5th grade, its what my music teacher forced us to clap to so I know it by 
no other name. It was only recently I learned that the British sing ' my 
country Tis of thee' , but about God saving their queen ;) !!!


Ernesto Ikerd,  (817) 763-4795
Company Graphics, Dept 17
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircaft Systems
Fort Worth, Texas