From Tom Millar Sent Tue, Mar 9th 1999, 07:25
From Tom Millar Sent Tue, Mar 9th 1999, 07:25
Jeremy J Graham wrote: > > Could somebody please give me a review/opinion of the following albums: > > Buckfunk 3000 - First Class Ticket to Telos > Christophe DE Babalon - If You're Into It, Then I'm Out (or something like > that) The Buckfunk 3000 album is one of my favorites. It covers a whole mess of stylistic stuff, from truly space-age funky stuff at about 180 bpm towards the beginning to (almost) straight ahead house and breakbeats at the end. Sprinkled throughout are fucked-up pitchbending FM basslines and truly silly soul/funk samples that make the experience all the more surreal. "Surreal" in the british-humor vein, of course. Big photo of the famous Cybermen from Dr. Who on the front cover. Si Begg describes this as the kind of club music he thinks one would hear if one stepped into, say, a dancehall in the Buck Rogers universe. Where much electronic music comes from, well, a Kubrick/Asimov vision of the future, he has decided to use 70s/80s B-class scifi shows and the like as his source of inspiration. This is of course aided by Begg's natural instinct for an entertaining noise and/or sample and production acumen. Some of these songs have some BASS. Cristoph de Babalon's album is surreal in a much more Kafka-esque fashion. Several of the tracks really appeal to me... when I'm sitting in my room with my computer as my only light source, chainsmoking and drinking straight whiskey. I guess you could say this album is pretty cathartic, like a lot of stuff on DHR, actually. The first track is reason enough to buy this album: twenty minutes of completely dissolute, despondent sonics, patterned and echoed enough to really hurt where it counts. Some tracks almost fly towards jazzy breaks, particularly "Damaged III," which is excellent. The cover & title pretty much sums it up, though. This is perhaps the most musical of the albums I have which appeal to my nihilistic moods. Both of these have been around the block a few times and show no signs of getting old, so I'd recommend immediate purchase of each. Hope that helps Tom