From Miss Lemon Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 17:27
--- Tosh Cooey wrote: > Ok, they don't suck, I just didn't like what I've > heard. > > Here's the problem, Autechre's Incabula (sp?), BOC's > Music has the > Right.., and FSOL's ISDN have both been highly > discussed on this list as > great works of music, but I didn't like anything > from any of them, and I > sorta found them boring. One area of music I haven't heard much about on this list (maybe it would be more of an ambient thing) is more of the dark side of electronics. I'd like to put in a recommendation for one of my favorite CDs - Fetisch Park's Alluvial. It's not at all boring, most of it is rather dark, disturbing, driving, perhaps dance-able. What the artist did is sample the songs of prostitutes in Hong Kong (??) and weave them nicely with well-crafted, opposite-of-minimal, electronic music. Not restrained at all, the music almost "trips over itself" in parts (best way I can describe it!) I'm not good at subgenres (and I tend to think that anything that can be easily pigeonholed is not very interesting) so I can't give you a neat label. This is not very much like the artists that you mentioned you liked, but it's not likely to bore you, more likely to give you a headache. (on Extreme - a fine label, that doesn't put out enough lately!) Another rather obscure CD that is not boring is BP Service - (and I cannot think of the name of the CD. It is not "The machines print soundmaps" which I do not have, but it is also on Tone Casualties - another good label). It's one of those CDs which list alot of "non-musical" instruments in the credits - stuff like chains, pots and pans, children's swings, city ambience. It's not as unstructured as you might think; it is odd, but they put it together well. I'm not sure if it's IDM (I'm still not sure what IDM is...) but I guess you could dance to parts of it, if you're adventurous. So those are my random thoughts on a couple of CDs. I also don't particularly care for Autechre, BOC, or FSOL, so maybe you'll like some things that I liked. --Miss Lemon _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com