From Mxyzptlk Sent Mon, Sep 6th 1999, 18:33
From Mxyzptlk Sent Mon, Sep 6th 1999, 18:33
Okay...all I own currently are the Organic Grooves, Audio Messages
(codek) and Obliq recordings cds - but all of the above are stuck in
rotation (interrupted only by the Wagon Christ studio sessions and some
Modernist stuff) in my car player (this means I really like 'em). One of
the best thing about all three is that they defy neat categorization.
Right now Audio Messages in playing and it's a rich swirl of dubbish,
mid eastern, beats, samples and an odd landscape which makes me think I
put on the Black Dog live in Toronto boot and forgot about it in places.
Not really ambient, not really IDM, but both and neither in spots.
Organic Grooves is likewise difficult to pigeonhole. Warmer, some
acoustic loops tossed in and a nice BoC/Bola-esque kind of atmosphere to
it. My wife likes this best of the lot.
The Obliq cd is a bit more crunchy and displays more IDM input, but
it's still got one foot in the ambient/idm camp and the other off in
space somewhere. All of these things are (imo, of course) absolute gems
and available at criminally low prices (I think I paid about 11-12$ each
for them). Great stuff. Now I'm afraid I'm going to have to seek out
what vinyl I can find on both labels and see exactly what I've been
missing. High marks from me, for what it's worth.
--
jeff
"10,000 people all screaming the same thing at the same time are wrong,
even if they're right."
dancing/about/architecture "...with wandering steps and slow..."
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