Re: (idm) recoil: unsound methods

From Ashok Divakaran
Sent Tue, Dec 23rd 1997, 14:58

> Dear All,
>
> At 16:49 1997-12-22 PST, xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx wrote:
> >I must 2nd that one.  I was expecting perhaps DM without the words.
> >However, this album is utter shit.  I usually don't use such negative
> >remarks, but this album warrants it.  Those catchy electronics are all
> >gone.  What's happened Mr. Wilder?
>
> Those "catchy electronics" went in 1990 or something. Did neither of you
> listen to his second album as Recoil - Bloodlines - a record somewhat in
> the same vein as Unsound Methods, albeit not as dark. If you did you should
> have heard that Alan is not about either Just Can't Get Enough, Master and
> Servant or Strangelove.
>
> I agree, it's not as good as "Bloodlines", "Violator" or anything else that
> he has produced, I'm not much into the industrial side of the biznizz much,
> but I REALLY appreciate the album's production, Alan is God in my eyes,
> this album hasn't changed a thing. Four (4!!) people took his place on the
> new DM album and still they didn't do it half as well as Alan would've.

I find the music on Unsound Methods pretty interesting, but the rantings of 
his female vocalists ruins it all for me.

Ashok

PS. To the fellow who asked about how early Recoil sounds - "Hydrology" is
very slow-paced/ambient, with a very precise, almost clinical electronic sound.
One of the 
tracks is based on surreal cutups of a DM song (forget the name). "Bloodlines"
is simply excellent - the songs have a real density and urgency about them,
esp. those with Toni Halliday (of Curve - another favorite.) Fairly close
to the DM sound when it was made. And hey, it's your one chance to hear
Moby rap (don't say I didn't warn you :-)

PPS. Unlike Fe I don't find Bloodlines particularly industrial.