From flesh-coloured anti-aircraft alarm Sent Fri, Jun 4th 1999, 21:18
From flesh-coloured anti-aircraft alarm Sent Fri, Jun 4th 1999, 21:18
"that guy over there" said:
>after claiming that most minimal techno was of little interest to me, i set
>out to discover what was wrong with me.
ain't nothin' a higher threshold of boredom couldn't fix... you'll know
you've received enlightenment from the boddhisattva of minimalism when
you're waiting to make a left turn and you think "jesus, this turn signal...
it's _amazing_."
>unfortunately i couldn't find the various artists '8'/'8.5'/'9' on fat cat
>as one kind soul recommended
GET IT. if you can't find it, have someone tape it for you. "8" has to be
one of the most..it's just...so...i mean... it makes me drool. "8.5" and
"9" are cool, but "8" just kills me. it's like tantric sex with two 70s
yamaha home organs inside lee perry's echo chamber - the one that was in the
studio he burned down. it and the remixes of it are in my top 10 for the
decade.
[monolake]
>ambient-noise track on "...compiled" didn't do much for me, which i
>guess is why i didn't buy any monolake before yesterday. but then again i
>didn't buy any chain reaction stuff after "...compiled".
wait. is "compiled" the only chain reaction thing you've heard? because
that comp is really not representative of their best material... if you've
never heard either of the porter ricks albums, particularly, then you're
missing some good stuff.
>what's funny is that in the same record store, i got to hear some of the
>"37845 lookalike releases a second" kind of series by mike ink & that was
>quite the kind of thing that would have driven me away from minimal techno
>forever had i heard that first.
[...]
>i suppose his earlier records were better.
i don't think they were, actually. from what i've heard. i'm always kind
of dubious about buying minimal techno stuff because i'm afraid it'll be
_studio 1_ style boing-boing repetetiveness; ink just doesn't do it for me.
gas is alright, i suppose.
am i the only person who notices a distinct difference between the mike ink
stuff (very synthetic, very tight with little variation) and the more chain
reaction/brinkmann/concept one school of things? even brinkmann himself had
a hard time rendering the _studio 1_ material any more interesting, IMO.
>one record i just bought that i'm really looking forward to hear start to
>finish: the radar threat cd on history of the future. semi-
>harsh digital noise & mad beats. can't get any better. give it a try if
>you see it in your favorite store/mailorder.
i demand a full review. someone at c8.com reviewed it and sounded kind
of... not so much lukewarm as just weirded out by it.
ObMinTechnoBriefMentionBySnobbyBastard: the cog/polmo polpo split on audi
sensa is REALLY fucking good. the cog side being a bit more experimental,
with some keen use of organic textures, while polmo polpo tries to convince
you they're not FROM berlin, they just lived there a while when their pop
was in the army...
and...the komet track on _.aiff_ is so goddamn good. so, so good. such a
perfect example of minimal sound, cleverly used.
ObIDM: click click clikclikclkclkckkkkkkkclickclick click.
i really need to write some reviews.
"jigga wha? jigga WHY?!" to quote dan kidney,
-b.
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