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. > > "505 Dossier," "Q/Peach," and "Porus Discoclash" are BIG highlights for > me...but they're all pretty rad. > > 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. > > ________________________________ > ________________________________ > 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 > > 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). > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Christopher Mauldin <xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> > wrote: > > 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... > > 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. > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:57 PM, <xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > 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. > > phase > > > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Ethan Tackett wrote: > > 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. > > > > > >