(idm) weird bits (tortoise etc)

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
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"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