(idm) (QuikReview) Atom Heart: Dropshadow Disease

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Sent Fri, Oct 30th 1998, 22:55

Rather Interesting RI 049 CD

I'll be brief as the subject line suggests:

Atom Heart has put together a (conceptual?) CD based on computing and 
everything digital.  With songtitles like Ping Pong (True Type,) KPT 
v. 1.0, Cut 'N' Paste, and Dingbats, the music is heavily sampled, 
sharply digital at times, quite lighthearted, laden with intentional 
distortion/lo-fi, and lite drill-n-bass-ish.  Lighthearted like MOM, 
and lo-fi drill n bassish like Andrew Lagowski meets Yello and Mike 
Paradinas.  Fotienda is a sort of digital samba that starts out nice 
but drags on a bit later.  KPT v. 1.0 is a lush ambient number with 
an a touch of the Orb sound.  KPT v 1.1 is the most straight ahead d-
n-b of the CD with a great distorto lo-fi digital sound.  Cut N Paste 
is just that (d'oh!) The CD ends with the "bonus track" consisting of 
a computer voice singing the words "Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer 
Do...I'm half-crazy..."  [As a kid way back when (hey Jeff K!) I had 
a 45 RPM 7" made using one of the first computers that filled up a 
room and had the advanced capabilities of digital speech and singing 
this same song.]
 
Pete Namlook, A. Lagowski, and Lisa Carbon (Atom Heart?) are all 
credited with minor contributions.

Jim

PS:I'm trapped at my mom's with nothing but CDs and a notebook PC so 
you may be hearing from me later.

Halloween is not very much fun anymore.