From robert.merlak Sent Mon, Jan 4th 1999, 13:27
From robert.merlak Sent Mon, Jan 4th 1999, 13:27
First of all, happy new year to everyone on the list... I know I didn't post for some time, but busy is not an excuse... But I really was busy as hell last two months... enough of rambling and I'd really love to see more personal top98lists posted on idm... I really love those 20 albums :::: qwerty: i dolori dei giovane qwerther (kitchen sink, ks001) mike dred / peter green : virtual farmer (rephlex, cat070cd) gescom : md (or, only 3) boards of canada : music has the right to children (warp/skam, warpcd55/skald01) rook valard : systematic desensitization (phthalo, phthalo 06) squarepusher : music is rotted one note (warp, warpcd57) mannequin lung : art of travel (plug research, pr13ml2cd) cv[ev] presents chart runners (v/vm, vvmt0005) chaos a.d. : buzz caner (rephlex, cat059cd) system 360 : active technologies (source, cd980328) leila : like a weather (rephlex, cat056cd) v/vm : the stranger (phthalo, phthalo 07) rei harakami: unreset (sublime, sblcd5024) mandroid : electro freaks rehab clinic (breakin', brk8cd) kid-606 : don't sweat the technics (vinyl communications, vc140) morgan geist presents environ : into a separate space (phono, phonocd3) two lone swordsmen : stay down (warp, warpcd58) i-f : fucking consumer (disko b, db69) solvent : s/t (suction, suction003) max brennan : alien to whom (sublime, sblcd5025) few comps : map one : contaminated by technique (sub-con-geo, sg01cd) mission two : connecting electronix network (nature, nat2112) blip, bleep : soundtracks to imaginary videogames (lucky kitchen, lk003) endlessnessism (dot, dotcd4) fragmented records : vol 1 (fragmented, fmdcd002) and maybe, we are resonable people (warp, wap100cd) just because of afx/squarepusher collab.track... it's awesome ! 20 EPs: cylob : are we not men who live and die ?" (rephlex, cylob1) jake mandell : midwest ep (lucky kitchen, lk002) leila : space love (rephlex, cat062cd) phthalocyanine : zacks ep (phthalo, phthalo 05) boards of canada : aquarius/chinook (skam, kmas001) the cape (salford sounds, sxI001, cd-r) adult : dispassionate furniture (ersatz audio, ez-007) gescom (skam, ska010this) push button objects : unauthorized ep (chocolate ind., chlt003) plod : oh boy! (plod, cd-r) dmx krew : adrenalin flow (rephlex, cat072t) bola : aguilla (skam, kmas002) metic : sixto novaton ep (schematic, sch006) ad vanz vs. gescom / foehn (fat cat, fat009) le car : auto-motif ep (monoplaza, mz-004) chaos ad : remix ep (rephlex, dog059ep) richard coleman devine (schematic, sch005) psycore : the dot remixes (v2 music/dot, vvr5001826) keith tucker : automaton ep (puzzle box, pbx-4) leila : feeling (rephlex, cat067CD, cat067S) Of course that there are many many more great releases that I missed up there, but hey I was working to compile this lists for more than a hour :-) ... I still didn't hear new freeform (while I am on headphone label, can someone tell me what is their first release ? and I suppose it was written by one of HIA guys, not ?), paap/paradinas collab.album, lexaunculpt ep on isophlux (is it available on CD?), bola, jake mandell on W.I., moodyman on peacefrog, lithium project, new daniel ibbotson (while I am on Glasgow Sounds, their first release is Powder Productions: Pipe Dream, isn't it ? more info very appreciated...), gescom that, pole, herbert, consumed, plus many many more that I cannot think of at the moment and that makes me so depressed :-((( Also new John Tejada album, did anyone hear this one ? It's released on A13... cat.no??? Is it anything similar like last years gem, 12 volts of Soft Spread on Parallel ? I'm really looking forward to more Tejada stuff... what about Mr.Hazeltine album on Plug Research ? Oh,oh no, I missed also both Danny's albums, Low Res (on Plug Research) and Crank (on Phthalo)... I'll go mad :-) I'll stop here coz I might remember few more great releases that I missed in 98 and and and .. .. ..... ...bought Classic Fingers 2CD (Black Market) finnaly... Amnesia... what a beautiful and soulful track... bye rob np: untitled 44 by mr.jake mandell (huh, this might be a track of the year....)