From Peter Hollo Sent Sat, Aug 21st 1999, 03:18
From Peter Hollo Sent Sat, Aug 21st 1999, 03:18
Konstantin Minko wrote: >Could anyone help me to decide if I should by any other albums by > Freeform if I'm crazy about "Pattern Tub"? Pattern Tub's the only one I like. If you're CRAZY about Pattern Tub you'll probably like others, but I find the rhythms very annoying, sort of stilted and un-funky, although they're more like "funk" or whatever than the drum'n'bass, dub or hip hop kind of rhythms I like more myself. Roy G Biv wrote: > Basically Freeform is pretty damn cool, i like the jazzy syncopation > he puts into all his beats and melodies, plus the fact that he's into > doing melodic solos/improvs over his loops, kinda like jake > slazenger...but not quite as tongue in cheek For the sake of saying so, I think Freeform is consistently extremely disappointing. Some of the tracks on Pattern Tub are fantastic, experimental, interestingly done etc. There's nothing as lovely as the vocal sampling tracks from Pattern Tub on anything else he's released. Elastic Speakers, from 1995, is all synths and those same rhythms I can't get into. Yes, the melodies recall Jake Slazenger in part, and aren't as tongue in cheek but still terribly cheesy. I LOVE Mike P as Mu-ziq, Tusken Raiders and Kid Spatula, but Jake Slazenger seems a waste of time to me. I think it's that electro thing somehow... The "jazzy syncopations" are just lame to me, they don't move me or interest me conceptually. As opposed to say Mu-ziq or Jake Mandell, whose rhythms and weird melodies/harmonies are much better IMHO. As usual, this is only my opinion, and many people clearly think Freeform's great. I've attempted to explain why I don't, so that those who perhaps share my taste can know to at least give it a listen first. Cheers, Peter. -- Peter Hollo xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet http://www.fourplay.com.au Raven: experimental electronic http://www.fourplay.com.au/sound.html "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.