From Rusty Householter Sent Tue, Mar 16th 1999, 15:09
From Rusty Householter Sent Tue, Mar 16th 1999, 15:09
Hi, >Ok I have been listening to IDM type music for about 8 years now,and >especially lately there has been a lot of beautiful and intelligent music >neing released. I am especially fond of pretty much all Warp material and >I really loved the BoC album which I bought soon after it was released >last year. It was alright, no album of the year though, just an album everyone knew and bought (well at least some). >Then there comes Bola-Soup: >Afters so many recomendations from magazine reviews, lists and friends I >bought the album at Christmas time. Since then I have given it several >listens but I am still completely mystified as to why it has been hyped up >so much!! The entire album to me is so incredibly basic. It sounds like a >guy with a decent MIDI module who wants to use as many tracks of the >preset sounds as possible and then put a little reverb and delay in parts. >There are a few interesting sounds at times but in general I can't get >over how simple the song structures, melodies and sounds are. Based on >everyone else opinions I was really sure that I was missing something but >after many listens I stick to my original opinion. I thought precisely the same thing. I only liked that one track that was released on 7" first, then there's like three others on there that were either on Skampler or other sources. The rest is kind of throw back material. >HYis tracks sounbd exactly the way mine did when I first started fooling >arround with MIDI composition. Maybe I should send an old demo tape to >Skam. Hmmm...more downtempo stuff for Skam? I think they are looking for more of the Autechre/Funkstorung, type of thing....kind of like what MAS has been doing for years. : ) Rusty