From Kent Williams Sent Sun, Mar 7th 1999, 18:37
From Kent Williams Sent Sun, Mar 7th 1999, 18:37
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Rodney Perkins wrote: > As was the case with "Music is Rotted One Note", this is pretty good. > However, if I was neophyte who had never heard any other Squarepusher > release, I'd probably wouldn't even give it a second listen. > With some musicians, they give you the sinse tops. Guys like Squarepusher give you the tops, shwag, sticks, stems, and seeds, and lets you sort it out. There are things I like about Budokan Mindphone -- the stuff with breaks, and the gamelan piece at the end until I realized that the bass wasn't ever going to drup, and it was just going to meander and then stop. I also like that it came out domestic and I could get it for 8 bucks. As someone who makes tracks, it sometimes seems like Warp and Rephlex are going to release whatever DATs he throws at them unedited. I'd love to be in that position, but on the other hand I'd hope someone would weed out the wack tracks before enshrining them forever on CD. I can't imagine someone at Warp listening to this record and saying WOW this is the shit! Until and unless either TJ or his labels get serious about track selection, they run the danger of seeming like they are just capitalizing on his current noteriety, and devaluing his very real merits by dilution.