From Peter Hollo Sent Wed, Mar 17th 1999, 05:34
Gotta say, I've had Spectrum since it came out on Planet Mu, and it still sounds like a generic not very well done version of the stuff that Mikey P, Tommy J and yes, even Ricky D J do a lot better. But then I picked up the Skam09 EP - this is the shit! This is brilliant, much better than the album. Listen to this if you think Jega's got nothing to offer. Similarly, wonderful though I think Music Has the Right to Children is, the Skam08 EP is even better (High Scores, Everything You Do Is a Balloon and nloxax in particular). As are a couple of other assorted things like the Michael Fakesch remix and the track on Diskono[x] (or is it [y]?) On the other hand, as far as gigantic disappointments go, the Lexaunculpt Oh Here Come Some Noises 12" is just that. All those people saying what a genius Alex is have obviously heard some very different music to this. It's boring beats without particularly evocative melodies and harmonies... nice production values but frankly BoC do a lot better with lo-fi production. I am yet to see the point of this - there's so much better stuff. Please don't take this the wrong way - I can see all these SoCal people's eyeballs exploding from the stress of reading this ;) I don't like it mostly because it's just not my sort of music, but then BoC, Jake Mandell, Gescom (sometimes) and others do similar stuff which I love. On the listens I've given it so far (about 4) it's done nothing whatsoever for me. And that last new-age ambient track is *completely* gratuitous. Peter. -- Peter Hollo xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet http://www.fourplay.com.au Raven: experimental electronic http://www.fourplay.com.au/sound.html "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.