From spacecake Sent Fri, Apr 3rd 1998, 00:03
From spacecake Sent Fri, Apr 3rd 1998, 00:03
At 12:41 PM 4/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>well i'd agree on the caution side, not everyone is going to be bowled
>over by 12+ mins of enya vs squarepusher.
i've listened to it again and its more like squarepusher vs orbital :-)
>sounds horrible doesn't it,
>but i couldn't stop playing the thing like a bastard for about 3 weeks.
>i don't think it sounds anything like "hard normal daddy".
ok i admit that the EP is enjoyable and has a sense of humour.
part of the reason i was being sour with this record is that it
sounded so different over real audio on the warp site. actually it sounded
really really good over ra, kind of like a dnb version of the phoneica EP...
but i still think that in parts it heavily borrows from the squarepusher
sound and (now that i listened to it again) elements form orbital.
(notice that tremoloed synth whine that sounds exactly like
the one on orbital's 'the girl with the sun in her head' or the
end of the first track and the orbitalsque looped vocals and moody
synth pads...)
>you might as well state that all techno sounds the
>same as its based on the same beat.
i'm probably going to get kicked off the list for this but...
it does. at least to the untrained ear... that's
why none of these pop listening mush-heads can't even distinguish
between techno, trance, and house. it's all just 'techno' to them...
...or wrose 'electronica' <hawwwk, spit spit spit, ugh!>
>so although squarepusher has certainly made me wince w/ the use of
>prog/fusion elements that "children at play" wallows in, this has an
>altogether more epic and smooth sound than tom j's stuff.
funny, the 'prog/fusion elements' which TJ incorporates into
his tracks is exactly what i dug from the beginning...
maybe that's why the Max Tundra EP seemed to sound so much like
him...
>more over the top than sound of any new ground being broken.
i'll drink to that. peace.
PS: did anyone hear of something called 'the landspeed records crossfader
entertainment compilation' f/unit mobeious, I-F, route66 etc...? i heard
its good... thanks in advance.
:spacecake: