(313) a few reviews

From Bill VanLoo
Sent Tue, Mar 21st 2000, 20:23

Well, I hit Record Time last night and came away with a couple of
gems.

.CSM-2 by Kevin Tobler (CSM): Is this Serotonin sublabel still
running? I haven't been able to find out much information, but I
really love one of the tracks on this. It has that ultra-tight
percussion sound that some of the Cologne material uses.

http://www.serotoninusa.com/csmdiscog.htm

.1-3 by Erosion (Chain Reaction): I think this is Various Artists
a/k/a Thorsten Profrock, but I'm not sure. It's got the sort of
"sheets of sound" that I associate with his style. I picked this up to
fill some of the holes in my Chain Reaction back catalog.

http://home.snafu.de/circonium/music/cr.html

."system medley" by snd (City Centre Offices): This is a very nice
piece of work by snd. I didn't care much for their full-length
"makesndcassette", because it was just too much of the same thing.
They didn't change their sonic palette on the album, making for a very
long excursion and ultimately it was just too samey for my tastes. I
love the snd "newtables" 12" I have, though, so I think the key to
listening to their material is having it in small doses. 
This 7", on Thaddi Hermann's City Centre Offices label, is the perfect
small dose. "System Medley", the one track, uses basically the same
palette of pitched percussion sounds as the other snd material, but
breaks down into a nice stuck-groove sounding loop about 2/3 of the
way through, which then resolves nicely. The other side features
locked grooves, which would work perfectly with some of the fuzzy
beatless ambient material 

http://www.city-centre-offices.de/

Cheers,

Bill / dj marathon
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