From Michael Upton Sent Mon, Nov 2nd 1998, 23:36
From Michael Upton Sent Mon, Nov 2nd 1998, 23:36
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Mark Stevens wrote: | On Mon, 02 Nov 1998 07:19:22 GMT, you wrote: | >it's easy to see why warp dropped ken - music for adverts doesn't | >sound 'right'.. the production's a bit rough, there are some right | >cheesy sounds on there. | I don't think that's reason enough for Warp to drop someone. If you | want rough cheese, you've only got to look at Aphex Twin's 'Richard D. | James' album. Cheese on a rough stick! I'm presuming RDJ sold though. Plaid's cross over potential (Nicolette ex-Massive Attack and Bjoerk) and oh-so "professionally produced" music keeps them on, is I think the point the poster from Subconscious Geography was making... On the flip-side what Ken got up to didn't fit on either grounds, with few concessions to what's cool now, etc. I tend to agree. If sales in my area are any indication, Warp would have dropped Ken simply because 'Music for Adverts' sunk without trace. You could find it in sales bins for the equivelant of about three pounds here shortly after its release. Oh yeah, and while I still hate 'Music for Adverts', I do think Plaid's production etc. is quite over the top on the "nice and clear" front. Sometimes I _like_ sounds to be muffled and ambiguous, or things to get seriously dirty. Even the distortion sounds carefully equalised and filtered. Michael np. 'The Driving Memoirs' - Morgan Geist ____________________________________________ "Also, he has automatic evasion devices" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html