From flesh-coloured anti-aircraft alarm Sent Mon, Dec 14th 1998, 14:36
From flesh-coloured anti-aircraft alarm Sent Mon, Dec 14th 1998, 14:36
mask 300 is worth it if you're one of those sad losers who needs everything on the skam/musik aus strom labels; you know the drill, electro/kraftwerk worship (there's a new one), warphlex cloning, etc. noteworthy tracks are a1 (Ae style) and the bomb-ass b1, which almost justifies the $ i spent on this: totally distorted meditations on the drumloop from rob base & dj e-z-rock's "it takes two." i'm NOT kidding, they even left in the "yeah! WHOO!" stuff. pretty cool. but overall, more tepid explorations into that-which-has-been-done-already. my markant question: i've been off this list for about a year now, so i have not witnessed any conversation re: markant. one review i read said that it was total Ae cloning, but as the same reviewer dubbed funkstorung "original," i thought i'd get a second opinion. worth picking up: various artists remixes (fat cat) if you don't know, you better ask somebody. the original various artists (aka thorsten profrock, ok?) 12" on fat cat was trampled in a stampede of sad gits running for the new, $125 v/vm 7" of old ukelele 78s, so you probably haven't heard it's brilliant use of collapsing moog, organ drum machine and seriously bent polyrhythmic delay action. but pick up the remixes for the fucking BRILLIANT Pole remix of "9", which builds on the original with dub bass, strange squashing keyboard pads and that patented damaged 4-pole filter click/hum. truly more impressive and an obvious descendant from the bc/cr aesthetic, as opposed to the somewhat less-than-breathtaking hallucinator or fluxion. monolake clocks in with a turbulent ambience that comes in waves (and colors) and eventually develops with a minimal rhythm played on the spoons of the gods; clickety-clack go the arterial tracks. so deep and absorbing i can't discuss it. autechre, whoo, ha, yes. for the autechre remix you EXPECTED, listen to the funkstorung clonejob remix directly following this track. the actual booth-brown mix is a storming techno track which reminds me of the "lyot" 12" if it was left pressed between two copies of mescalinium united's "we have arrived," in the sun, for a week. abrasive, near-four-on-the-floor (!!) beats with a hazy, near-industrial ambience; not at all what i was expecting, and much better for it. _friends of max ernst_ 12" (maxernst) look for the unnamed 12" with the giant airplane engine on the label, and if all else fails, pull the vinyl out and check for a blank space between tracks with an etched thankslist on it; that would be this. two tracks by brinkmann (one a steady, thumping 'techno' number that sends out ripples of bass like waves on a pond, the other a sort of trip-hop number not unlike the "now and real" track on the ester-brinkmann 12") and two remixes of philus (i think) using the two-armed monster turntable that turn the sterile minimalism (not a bad thing) of the originals into a percolating, cascading electro flow. snappy. anybody want to burn a CD rom of the horribly limited "supposex 100" LP by brinkmann for me? PLEASE?! (i'd even trade mask 300 for an original copy. no joke.) various _chain reaction...compiled_ (chain reaction...) this CD concentrates more on the beaty, club-playable side of the CR 12"s, i.e., the stuff that hasn't been on CD before. don't worry, if you have the other CDs, this stuff ain't on them (although the vainqueur track here isn't vastly different from one of the ones on "elevations")... this is definitely worth having (especially if you don't have turntable access), but i would recommend buying the other CDs first (start with the basic channel CD, and then go forth and perspire). parmentier _luxsound_ cd (sigma editions, australia) former members of NZ drone-rockas Thela move to australia, buy cheap electronics and forsake rock instrumentation in favor of trance-inducing, minimal tonewerk that mixes nicely with sahko, noton, etc, etc. certain tracks (esp. 5) remind one of of those m/bc/cr people, stripped of rhythm and rendered as a deep, deep bass flow with wisps of atomized, fractal sound evaporating from it. stromatolites, anywon? not crowd-moving, but head-shaking. and if you sit on your subwoofer, butt-shaking, after a fashion. william basinski _shortwavemusic_ lp (noton) i haven't listened to this enough to render a full opinion, but i'm pretty amazed at this; shortwave radio noise/texture mixed with slowed-down melody loops. kind of reminds me of _ch-vox_ seefeel remixing _chiastic slide_ down into a soft haze of noise with the barest trace of the hidden alien melody lines left. mesmerizing, and it mixes really well with alvin lucier's "sferics." dalek _negro, necro, nekros_ (gern blandsten) dig it - for some reason this punk/weird label decides to put out a hip-hop record. but instead of going for some obvious, easy-to-sell stuff in the duff paddy mold, they sign dalek - who not only rhymes intelligently (he should've been on _blackwholestyles_ instead of abstractrude) but also cooks up some AMAZING deep, dark hip-hop that reminds me of the better wordsound stuff, without being derivative in the slightest. i mean, what hip-hop album have you heard this decade that utilizes sheets of third eye foundation-style guitar on one song, an amusing variation of the "tourist loses kidney" story on another, and has the sheer BALLS to do a 10-minute track that ends with a 4 minute tabla and sitar instrumental workout. completely out of nowhere, dalek has rocked my world. and he's representing new jersualem, baby. that's it for now. i'm at work, for christ's sake. [gr] "then why did i have the bowl, bart? why did i have the bowl?!" xxxxxxx_xxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com