From 0 Sent Fri, Jul 9th 1999, 03:10
From 0 Sent Fri, Jul 9th 1999, 03:10
new= new to me, not necessarily new releases.... 1. Music Takes Me Higher: The Ganymed Mixes- (Sabotage 39) - what can't be said about this 12"? Sabotage never fails IMO. I almost bought it just for the cover art alone:) Fucking thing looks like Dorothy getting attacked by KISS wearing halloween masks (go figure). Apparently this is a 12" of 4 remixes of some old 70's tune Music takes me Higher By Gerry Edmond 1978. I never heard that tune, but the mixes by Adult and Krok are fucking brilliant. They do lean a bit on the 80's feel of electro, but the manipulations of the vocal sample make the tune extremely catchy. The flipside have mixes by Parallax Corportation (no stranger to electro heads) and DJ Elin. The flipside is quite weak IMO compared to the Adult and Krok mixes. These Adult and Krok mixes have lots of melody, which I eat up like one needs oxygen. So it's no wonder I can't stop playing 2. DJ Godfather- Aliens Got my 808. (Twilight) I've heard of DJ Godfather plenty but never bought, rather came across, any of his music before. With a title like Aliens got my 808, I knew right away this was gonna be a good buy, esp for 6bux. Side 1 has a few trax that immediately bring to mind Aux 88 sound; hard 808 with lots of open hi-hats. Side 2 contains the title track sung thru a vocoder. As a whole this is a solid release, but I'm not great at reviews. What I would like to point out, however, are the 6 lock grooves that come with the record. I found the 1st two grooves on Side 1 to work extremely well with the KROK Mix I spoke of above:) 3. Kit Builders- Girls on Stage (electrecord) not a newie, this was done in 1997. I've seen it at the shop for over a year and finally laid down the cash for the fucker. GOOD THING TOO! I believe there was a some discussion on the electro list about the title track Girls on Stage, which is quite good, but it's the track E Vox on the flip side that REALLY grabbed my attention (and money:). E Vox starts out with a funky/breaky JBondywestcoasterslovehim beat and quickly goes into an intensely catchy bleepy bloppy melody. It actually sounds like that too, you can run around singing bleep blop blop bleep bleep to yer friends and they'll respond "Hey, that's E Vox" This is a typical slow groovin song we've come to expect from the Electrecord camp. Unfortunately once the song establishes it's hook, it really goes nowhere, but I like it nevertheless. 3.a Multicast- test press (Obliqrecordings) I say 3.a cuz this is not an entire electro record, but one track from this test press, Hall of the Inverted Mushroom (which some of you may have already heard on the Obliq Recordings comp 1998) is a very dark, slow, grabbing electro tune if you ask me. The first time I heard it I emailed these guys and DEMANDED they put on wax, good thing they listened:) The good thing is this song is very unique and nothing like *ANY* electro you've heard before. It's more like electro for yer bongloads then for you DJ sets or whathaveyou. As soon as you drop the needle on this track you ask yerself "WHERE THE FUCK did that kick drum come from" But yer afraid to find out. Yep, I'm not kidding this is scary electro IMO. Once the synth comes in, you'll agree. It's freaky, moody, frightening, etc. My only wish is that it was faster, but hey, that's why I have 1200's and the pitch slider:) You can hunt one down hopefully soon or give Multicast a buzz at http://obliq.net/ I plan on reviewing the entire Multicast test press 12" in an upcomming post to IDM, as well as a review of a limited 10". SO far they're only test presses AFAIK, so you'll have to contact Multicast for more info cheers, gilly (who never posts to IDM anymore-pfft!) ps: I suck at writing reviews, but I thought I'd share, peace. -- "atom heart will remix the record of the pope."- Atom Heart.