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Name: R0B
Member Since: Dec 01, 2004
Rank: 5
Rated 23 releases, average: 4.00
Profile: My painful trek to Electro City
I grew up with electro when it was trapped in my videogame consoles. And then, one day, the sound was no more. Surely the sound was alive somewhere?
I've sought out this sound in beats, clubs, stores, new, used, but always following the wrong leads (Green Jelly's "House Me Teenage Rave"). Took a while (years) of buying poor cds, some which I eventually came to appreciate and understand, while others were indeed revealed to be as bad as I thought they were.
One day I fell asleep during a roadtrip listening to an Orb tape that a fellow art student made me. The tape autoreversed during my sleep to the Underworld side that I had never bothered with: Second Toughest of the Infants. Everything changed when I woke up, I had been pointed in the right direction.
The second major event was stumbling upon Mount Sims' UltraSex, revealing to me that what I wanted this whole time was some electro and synth: Kraftwerk, Adult., T Raumschmiere, Japanese Telecom, Drecxia, Legowelt and Alphawezen: L'apres midi d'un microphone. The sound came back, and suddenly I didn't feel so alone with music that alienated me.
My beginner's collection is modest and somewhat uneducated, but I know what sounds drive me.. that... electrobass.
I need more.
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Reviews:
DJ Me DJ You - Simplemachinerock - 05-Dec-04 11:15 AM
The cover and insert sheet of this album are a sweet, sweet tribute to the main screen of a somewhat obscure Intellivision game called MICROSURGEON by Imagic. DJ ME DJ YOU uses a LOT of Intellivision samples in "Rainbows and Robots".
Kraftwerk - Computer World - 04-Dec-04 06:00 AM
That bleepy sound and synthesized voices that are second in line from the Macintosh Voices when it comes to commercial voice synthesis come from a Texas Instruments Speak & Spell. You can generate a random sound sequence like the ones Kraftwerk use by simply pressing the Start button over and over again.
Bomb The Bass - Clear - 04-Dec-04 05:25 AM
I bought this album because hoping to find the electronic tune that was made for the PC/Amiga game Xenon 2: Megablast.. or something similar. Though the game did indeed state that the music was in fact by Bomb The Bass, the album had nothing to do with any of that action. Still, a decent album with some lyrics that were bordering between smooth and tacks'. One great thing came out of it, though: If You Reach The Border Feat.- Leslie Winer , give that minimalist one a listen.
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