From Jason J. Tar Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 00:56
From Jason J. Tar Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 00:56
>porter ricks: s/t (mille plateaux)
> anybody know who these guys are?
Thomas Koner and Andy Mellwig.
>electric ladyland 5 (mille plateaux)
>I've heard different opinions here, but I think it's mostly mediocre noisy
>stuff that sounds scarily like fsol's last album (whatever that piece of
>crap was called).
>but those 4 don't justify the below-mille plateaux standards of the
remainder of this
>2-cd.
Hmm... I think I'd have to disagree. This release is a natural
progression that the whole Electric Ladyland series has been taking if you
follow it from vol 1 onward. More harder and distorted. The Disorder
track is probably the hardest thing Panacea has ever laid hands on, the
Techno Animal track is a return to their older sound, Spectre and Slotek
give examples of the dark dub of Wordsound Label, Mark B and Andre Gurov
give the disc it's Hip Hop element, and EL staples Biochip C (Steel) and 4E
are always welcome additions. Not to mention the two ICE tracks which are
rather incredible (Especially "Viper"!). But to each their own, just don't
think you gave it a fair review in light of the other ELadyland releases.
(EL4 probably edging this out as my favorite in the series though.)
Speaking of Ice--The upcoming _Bad Blood_ is incredible. "Dense" would be
a good description. Still heavy and dark dub work by Kevin Martin and
Justin Broadrick, but the addition of Scott Harding (of New Kingdom) and
guest rap vocals by A-Cyde, EL-P (Company Flow), Priest (Anti Pop
Collective), Sebestian (New Kingdom), Sensational (aka--Torture), and
Toastie Taylor (New Flesh For Old), plus Blixa Bargeld and DJ Vadim give
this an immense flavor. Very worthwhile effort. Plus some 12"s should be
out soon featuring remixes by Skull, Underdog, Company Flow, Scott Harding,
and Alec Empire. Whee!
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Jason J. Tar
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