From Sean Cooper Sent Fri, May 22nd 1998, 00:25
From Sean Cooper Sent Fri, May 22nd 1998, 00:25
here are my favorite beyond releases: another fine day, life before land (i second jsd here!) higher intelligence agency, freefloater (perennial!) higher intelligence agency, reform (extremely nice apl and ae remixes) david toop & max eastley, buried dreams hia & biosphere, polar sequences the beyond comps are usually pretty good as well, but tend to be kinda spotty. another jsd-related seconding (sorta) is as regards fathom records. fathom came up after assertions were made about hearts of space (fathom's parent-label) being similar to fax. this is extremely misleading; a sprinkling of heart of space releases have wandered into droney ambient territory, but few of their releases sound much like what fax is doing (even where the world-electronic fusion tactics overlap!). the fathom stuff is closer, and some of it does in fact exceed much of what fax releases. jsd mentioned robert rich and brian williams' _stalker_, imo one of the best ambient releases ever recorded). i'd also recommend anything on fathom by robert rich solo (stay away from his hos releases except maybe for _numena_), as well as robert's collaboration with alio die, _fissures_, which is just gorgeous. steve roach's _magnificent void_ is also, er, magnificent... but you shouldn't drop a penny on any of that stuff until you've bought the new lithops lp!!! :) sc