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Name: Andrew Taylor Home Page: http://benow.ca Member Since: Aug 12, 2003 Rank: 17 Rated 108 releases, average: 4.59 Location: Calgary, Alberta Profile: Electronic listener since '92 orso. Ambient favoured, but enjoy the full spectrum, from fridge noise to hardcore. | |
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Carl Stone - Al-Noor - 20-Aug-08 06:30 PM
Fine electro variations founded on the acoustic. Excellent craftsmanship. Loops and electronics without loosing the underlying samples. Very good production with much use of stereo. This was a revisit of Carl Stone for me (last heard on em:t) and shows much progress in his talent. While there is alot to listen to, Al-Noor is very repetitive, even too repetitive for me on the last track. An excellent listen deserving a good copy on good equipment.
Terre Thaemlitz - Soil - 21-Mar-07 12:24 AM
Wow. This is one of my favourite ambient CDs ever. Luscious drifting layers of repetition. Very slow, very nice. I've found myself repeatedly coming back to give it a 5. Besides the slow drift, which some find challenging, Yer Ass and Cycles are fine sound sculptures around disturbing samples... contrasting like sand in butter. Of them all, elevatorium is my favourite, taking 8 minutes of drift to build to a soft groove. As far as ambient goes, IMO, it's hard to do much better.
Fantastic Plastic Machine - Beautiful - 24-Apr-06 12:26 AM
I like it. Production is excellent. So are the vocalists, tho they are perhaps a bit tiring towards the end of the album. FPM is quite different, very clean and very quirky. This release is more cohesive and has some great bits, tho it doesn't quite work when listenened as a whole. Deserves a listen if only for the production and arrangement.
Kate Bush - Aerial - 09-Apr-06 04:23 PM
Excellent long awaited release. Perhaps a bit repetitive in themes, but very well developed and engineered. Her sense of humor and emotion show through well arranged beats and accompanyment. First disc is groovy and quirky... washing machines, number sequences and how to be invisible. CD2 is quite repetive, but like Ravi Shankar or The Greatful Dead, the longer developments entrance and guide the listener until an abrupt eject into silence. Definately an excellent listening album.
Hector Zazou & Harold Budd - Glyph - 04-Dec-05 10:28 AM
Beautiful album. Orchestral constructions heavy with experience, in places overlayed with poetry. Dense and varied. The electronic contrasting and harmonizing with the traditional. An excellent listen.
