From noze Sent Tue, Jul 6th 1999, 16:18
From noze Sent Tue, Jul 6th 1999, 16:18
> Subject: > > Re: proem/hydrant > > Date: > > Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:42:43 -0700 > > From: > > Tomas Palermo <> >> > -- here's the review, in our Aug. issue. > > > > PROEM > > BURNPLATE #1 > > Hydrant/US/CD > > The San Francisco Bay Area, and Californian in > general, has been a hot bed of activity > > recently for experimental electronic dance > projects with releases from the likes of Kit > > Clayton (San Francisco), Phthalocyanine (Los > Angeles), if.then.else (Oakland) and > > others. Could it be that culture is finally > catching up to the programmers in this > > technology rich silicon state? Proem inhabits the > outer edges of dance music's fringe > > where beats don't line up in orderly fours and > laptop devices spit out increasingly > > complex melodic codes. This 11-song debut owes > much to the roads paved by > > Autechre, Black Dog and Aphex Twin in the use of > distorted rhythms and > > echo-drenched, atonal melodics. Proem is able > maintain it's own composure by > > deconstructing the various component sounds of > each track, breaking them down, > > reversing and inverting the tones and notes so > that by the end of spiny numbers like > > "Ashes" or "3rd Shift" a completely new song has > emerged. If dancing on electrocuted > > metal floors is your thing "Red Block"'s devious > funk or the retro-synths of "Old School > > Pudding" should supply the energy. The world's > many disciples of Booth-Brown, Hawtin > > or Pritchard will be most pleased to have another > high caliber electronic figure to > > obsessively collect. Proem is worth it. Tomas ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.