From Rychard Sent Wed, Jul 1st 1998, 23:31
>Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:20:44 -0400 (EDT) >From: the artist formerly known as salvador dali <xxxxxx.xxxxx@xxxx.xxx> >Subject: (idm) weird bits (tortoise etc) >i just freaked myself out because i'm listening to tortoise's 'millions >now living' and hit that point about 14 minutes into 'djed' where the >track sounds like it's coming apart. great stuff, except it sounds >uncannily like an old tape deck i had when it decided to chew up tapes. >so just to make this an actual idm post, anyone got any funny stories bout >mistaking sounds for stuff in life? i know the first few times i played >the richard d. james album i was looking around to see if i had somehow >turned on my modem. Yes, I work in a record store, and the boss hates dance music. He walked in the other day while I was playing Plug's Drum n Bass for Poppa, and by way of giving me shit, comented that it sounded like the CD was skipping. It was, and I don't know for how long. Rychard ________________________________________________________________________ "The use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments, which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard." John Cage, 1937