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Name: Manys Home Page: http://www.synthesizer.org Member Since: Aug 30, 2003 Rank: 1124 Average Vote Received: Correct (4.33, 6 votes) Rated 708 releases, average: 3.90 Location: San Francisco, CA Profile: I only buy from Discogs. Do not send me EBay links. Records for sale will be in the Marketplace. Don't ask. | |
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2 Girls - Talk About Rockin' - 21-Sep-08 10:25 PM
The house mixes are textbook 1991 commercial house. Fun basslines and a breakbeat laid over with the most insipid rap you can imagine that makes the Wee Papa Girl Rappers look like lyrical geniuses. Seriously, it wouldnt be out of place in a breakfast cereal commercial. This can be good or bad depending on your taste, but its funny nevertheless. The Omar Santana remixes are electro burners, with plenty of tape edits and gut-moving bass to keep your attention. Your choice of vocal and dub versions of that one, but Ill hip to you that bubblegum rap takes on a whole new dimension when laid over chop-warped beats.
Kraftwerk - The Robots - 21-Sep-08 10:10 PM
The Kling Klang Extended Mix is the cut here. Practically a seven minute bonus beat, it has all of the pieces of the song you know and love but very spaced out. There are extended lyric passages with just the synthesized lyrics clearly and subtly reverbed on top of a burning Freestyle beat. In and out it goes with the snappy bassline and string motifs, usually not at the same time and never overloading the mix.
CoH - Iron - 02-Aug-08 10:31 AM
If anybody had told me before this album came out that a minimal and to-that-point ambient-ish artist was going to do an electronic homage to heavy metal music, I would have been suspicious that Mr. Pavlov had been hanging out too much with Alec Empire, Liam Howlett, etc. As it turns out, CoH combines his personal style (a looping counterpoint similar to Ryoji Ikeda and, to some extent, early Frank Bretschneider) with the gnarliest knobs on whatever synths or plugins he keeps in his back pocket.
I dont know how many instruments he uses on this album, but the effect is unifying in the way the early minimalists used combinatorial orchestration to generate singular statements of texture and rhythm you could play for your most Hessian of buddies. In immersing himself in the language of heavy metal, Ivan incorporates something of both distortion and riffing in these tracks that do nothing if not beg the listener to turn it up, "Freedom Rock" style. That its minimal music makes no difference to your headbanging, the Quaalude Thunder and guitar solos will magically appear in your imagination, if you want them.
K-Alexi - 3 Men And A Loft - 22-Feb-07 05:24 AM
A very in-your-face release with that brittle DJax sound. "Ha" is as Chicago Techno as anything Steve Poindexter did (well...), but with the added touch of guitar-ish stabs. You get a bit of acid and a whole whack of drums and fills for your money and it remains characteristic enough to be playable to this day. In an age of constant nondestructive audio editing and production, something so stripped down and chaotic - not an oxymoron - could hardly leave the studio. Back then...it could!
Bill Nelson - Acceleration - 13-Feb-07 01:38 AM
"Hard Facts From The Fiction Department" is the track here. Electro synthpop in the vein of DMX Krew or Frank de Groodt with a heaping helping of funky marimba. Much more New York than Detroit in the electro department. If that isnt enough for you, the whole track is overlaid with TV samples a la Steinski or Coldcut. I bet they played this at places like the Funhouse. Only three and a half minutes long, but killer from beginning to end.