Re: (idm) ben neill

From Tom Millar
Sent Sun, Jun 20th 1999, 18:12

> > Ben Neill "Goldbug":
> 
> Saw this name in a post and it brings me to asking : what's the
> deal on Ben Neill?  I bought Green Machine unheard on a sale
> recently and listened through it about twice before relegating it to
> the bottom of the pile - sort of amby saxy noodling (oops, that word
> again).

Yeah, Ben Neill is another one of those dudes who takes the similar
underpinnings of jazz and electronic music in directions it was never
meant to go. It's like hey, this track is kind of cool- and then he
comes in with his damn trumpet again. ARRGH. I never liked the trumpet
anyway- It's BUGLE 2.0- just as cloying and nasal as the original
regimental wake up call, now with three buttons for greater melodic range!

Tom