From david turgeon Sent Tue, Aug 17th 1999, 16:23
From david turgeon Sent Tue, Aug 17th 1999, 16:23
i'm such an idiot. i managed to scratch the beginning of my brand new mouse on mars 'instrumentals' 12". good record though. & 'glam' too. i'm impressed. they lack all the exaggerated bumpiness which annoyed me on 'autoditacker' while retaining (& even adding up to) mouse on mars' trademark abstract melody & atmosphere building. so much that the straightforward electroish beat by the end of 'glam' caught me totally by surprise. the cover of 'instrumentals' is fantastic. it makes me feel like it must have been to discover your first krautrock record in a shady record shop in koln after years of listening to commercial radio. it looks mysterious, offcenter... god knows. no, actually, what it most reminds me of in its mere obscurity is the cover to white noise's 'an electric storm', surely one of the most out there records i've ever heard. speaking of which, if any of you has that, i'd probably trade half of my records for it (okay, maybe not but it's worth a try). i also very much like the new record 'no sound no ________(?) no memories' on lux nigra with the arovane, no.9, pole & multipara remixes. they're all mixed together quite nicely & the disc navigates effortlessly between minimal thump, lovely subdued idm from arovane, & some noisier (but never all that noisy) mixes as well. the pole mix doesn't really sound like pole (which is great). this beats the hell out of quite a few minimal records i've heard this year. va-ri-e-ty, geddit? ah & also, funckarma 'part 2'. woohoo. now that's what i call messing up a beat right. buy it. it's a white vinyl too. & the fizzarum clear 7" on city center offices is quite nice - mellow, melodic, crunchy - although it fails to extricate itself from the current idm sound so you could probably play that & say funkstorung interchangeably without anyone noticing. not a bad thing per se (it still sounds nice) but considering my usual attention span... -- david