Re: Carrot Dossier by Proswell

From luca tommy tommasini
Sent Mon, Dec 7th 2015, 16:59

http://www.discogs.com/artist/540778-Joseph-Misra

2015-12-03 4:37 GMT+01:00 Christopher Mauldin <xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>:
> yeah, actually I've been listening to Merck Mix 4 all day so have
> reacquainted myself with some of those tracks. turns out most of them were
> on my weird hybrid Carrot CD-R so I don't think there's too much that fell
> through the cracks, thankfully.
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> "505 Dossier," "Q/Peach," and "Porus Discoclash" are BIG highlights for
> me...but they're all pretty rad.
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> I don't know why I love these tunes so much! he's so much different from
> mainline IDM, someone like a Proem or a Brothomstates who would just ride
> out a pretty melody for the duration of a track. Proswell had this odd sense
> of musicality that not many of his peers had (Ilkae did, though), using cool
> melodic modulations and weird chords almost like Bach or something.
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> From: Ethan Tackett <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> To: Christopher Mauldin <xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> Cc: IDM <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Carrot Dossier by Proswell
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> If you still have any of those untitled tracks, you should send them my way.
> I'd be interested to hear some of the songs that fell between the cracks, so
> to speak.
>
> Resent, I forgot to CC to IDM (not really sure if it actually matters).
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> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Christopher Mauldin <xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> wrote:
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> I love Proswell. easily my favorite artist from ye olde golden age. to this
> day I find myself going back to each and every one of his releases when I
> need a blast misty-eyed nostalgia. which is often.
>
> Carrot Dossier was the first album I heard, and I think that record was
> probably an entry point for a lot of other folks too. it was kind of that
> peak time for the Merck label, as well; I want to say there were quite a few
> other "high-profile" releases in those few years getting press of some sort
> (Machinedrum, obvi, but also Ilkae, Jimmy Edgar, Blamstrain, and whatever
> else I can't remember). I think you would have had to be pretty hip to have
> caught the first wave of Merck with Konami and Syndrone and all that. I
> scooped up everything I could from Merck off Soulseek and even managed to
> purchase a few originals from Forced Exposure. For many years I listened to
> the same cruddy CD-R of what I *thought* was Carrot Dossier but it was only
> much much later that I discovered it wasn't the full album that saw the
> official release.
>
> many, many years later I finally picked up a copy of the real deal on CD.
> but it wasn't the Carrot Dossier I knew and loved. in a very distraught and
> panicked state lol, I tracked down Joe Misra's email and asked him what I
> had been listening to that whole time. he said he had released a couple of
> different versions of the album before it came out properly, passing tracks
> to a few friends in the (tracker?) scene. I guess I got some sort of
> assemblage of those early tracks, only a few of which were ever released
> (mostly on Merck Mix 4).
>
> for my money, "Pane" is hands down one of the best IDM tracks ever recorded.
> as is "Hari" off Bruxist Frog and the countless other untitled jams off that
> shitty burned CD I kept in my car for eons. both Jimmy Edgar and Machinedrum
> would significantly polish up their sound and find a huge international
> audience but Misra was such a mercurial individual (who I think endured
> quite a few rough patches at certain points in his adult life), I don't
> think he had it in him to go all the way. he still releases old and new
> music on his Inpuj label but it's no Carrot...
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> On Dec 1, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Ethan Tackett <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> I can definitely see why one would like Konami better. In a lot of ways, his
> progress as an artist toward a more polished sound is kind of a net loss for
> the listener; some of his originality is indeed glossed over. However, I
> think it's interesting to listen to his albums in order and see how his
> sound has developed, and Proswell's an artist for whom I've generally found
> things to enjoy about his music in every stage of his career.
> I find that as you progress from oldest releases to newest his melodies
> become more approachable and enthralling, but his production loses some of
> its accidentally glitchy,experimental charm.
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> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:57 PM, <xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
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> Funny seeing this.  A couple nights ago I almost listened to _Konami_ for
> the first time in a several years.  But something came up and I forgot about
> it (she wouldn't have appreciated anyway).  You can bet I'm putting it on
> now.  I don't remember liking _Carrot Dossier_ as much, but it seems worth
> another listen.
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> On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Ethan Tackett wrote:
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> This is the first real idm album I ever listened to, the one that got me
> into the genre in the first place. I gave it a listen the other night and
> remembered exactly
> why I liked it so much, the reason that I wanted to find more music in the
> same genre and such. I thought I'd share.
> https://proswell.bandcamp.com/album/carrot-dossier-2011-remaster
>
> Has anyone heard of Proswell? It's kind of hard for me to tell which artists
> are pretty well known among IDM crowds (besides the obvious ones, like Aphex
> Twin,
> Autechre, Plaid etc. etc.); my listening experience thus far has been mostly
> a solitary one, and I tend to find artists/albums/songs that are a little
> off the beaten
> path anyway, regardless of genre.
>
> Also, to aid discussion, feel free to mention the first IDM artist you
> listened to if you feel so inclined.
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