From r. kidwell Sent Fri, Jul 30th 1999, 14:23
From r. kidwell Sent Fri, Jul 30th 1999, 14:23
> Muziq "Royal Astronomy" (Astralwerks ASW 6275-2) did anyone else get serious Fat Boy Slim vibes from this one? I did. i mean, what the fuck is with that "Knock that shit off, that's some serious greedy fake boooolsheeeittt" sample that repeats ad nauseum? or the obnoxious "keep on fakin' the funk" sample? aahgh... my beef with this album is that the drum programming doesn't seem to have evolved at all.. he's using the exact same breaks. think and amen appear in like 2/3s of the songs... and they're cut up a little, but not dsp'd or anything, just raw. give me a break. (ahaha, get it?) and the programming itself isn't -- to my ears -- anything different than Lunatic Harness... the same cut-up amen with the spazz, stop, fade in the ride, spazz again tricks. it sounds like he's pulled the reins on the drill & bass fuckery a little, but there's no neat or untraditional percussion sounds or anything. agh. maybe i'm expecting the wrong thing from u-ziq, but i thought the album was a largely disappointing retread. ,rj../ ___,">www.gl.umbc.edu/~nworth1