(idm) neotropic, formerly some blather about AE

From sun rob and his arkestra
Sent Fri, Feb 5th 1999, 06:21

> and whilst were on the subject...it would be nice if a day went by when
> someone didnt go on about autechre or compare everything to
> them......mind you, at least orbital hardly get a mention these

ok.  finally found a copy of "mr brubaker's strawberry alarm clock"...wow,
it's a doozy.  what's with ninja tune artists consistently putting out 70+
minutes of material?  how do they do it?  anyway it's nifty nifty
stuff...the vocals on one track bother me, but with so much here that's
not a biggie.  and you'll never be the same after letting "apple sauce"
sink its freaky tentacles into your brain. 

i read somewhere that there's some connection between neotropic and FSOL,
which kind of makes sense...the same ability to drift from ambient to hard
beats and back, even within one track, is there.  however, "mr brubaker's"
totally blows away "dead cities" (the closest FSOL analogue i can think
of) in my opinion.  

man, between this and tobin, '98 was just a phat year for the ninjas. 

-rob


        (oh, and it's really nothing like autechre. but that's ok.)