swk24

Name: Scott
Member Since: Oct 10, 2002
Rank: 12484
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.84, 85 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (3.91, 11 votes)
Rated 1951 releases, average: 4.37
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Profile: I'm 27 years old. I like ambient, techno, house, IDM, other. I got "into this music" in 1997. Bought turntables in 1999. Discogs moderator since June 2003. Definitely not cooler than you.

In addition to music, I also like nice, big, soft hooded sweatshirts, empty parking lots, and tea.

Seller Rating:

100.0% positive (62 ratings)

Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (93 ratings)

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Reviews:

Jacob London - Casual Bingo - 08-Apr-08 12:44 PM
Something of an anthem in the DJ circles in which I moved during my college years, and damn well it should be. These two goofy guys, makers of goofy chopped-and-diced house with goofy track names, really hit the bullseye here. Go right for the A-side: "Regular Absorbency" jumbles up a fat squelch bass with hiccups, claps, guitar squiggles, horn honks, and voices shouting "Yeah!" and "Oh!". Even the most genteel DJ may find himself unable to resist chopping, cutting and scratching when something this funky is on the turntable. A record I try to remember to slip into the back of the bag, because it just might come in handy - 9 times out of 10, it does.

Jason Sloan - Hymns For The Afterlife - 07-Jan-08 09:41 PM
On the other end of the spectrum from the pulse and whoosh of classic Berlin-school music, there is ambient music that creates a lively space with a very limited palette, and this album hits the nail right on the head. Fans of Stars of the Lid, Mathias Grassow, and Robert Rich should absolutely take note of these gossamer meditations for guitar and laptop. No sludgy drones here, or canned ethnic samples, or new-age noodling. This CD is a triumph, and one that I return to time and time again. Through modest exhalations of tone and timbre, Mr. Sloan races past the 75-minute mark in the blink of an eye. The sounds used are so simple, but hard to pin down with words - long, pulsing notes that swell and ebb, keen and then melt into whispery puddles. Wherever you want to go - up to the highest sun-blasted heights, or deeper into the cracks of your favorite armchair, these lovely paper-thin soundscapes will get you there every time.

Off And Gone - Everest - 11-Nov-07 06:53 PM
This looks like yet another 90s album that slipped under the radar and into the bargain bin - but why? Its a medley of pristine, head-spinning techno-trance that would give Orbital, Fluke, or Freaky Chakra a run for their money. Nimbly programmed rhythms place these tracks far away from a monotonous boom-tss groove, and big dancefloor hooks and obvious up-and-down structures are avoided too. Instead, snippets of notes and voices swirl and swoop here, there, and everywhere in a psychedelic barrage. The tracks all take a different tack - chill and housey, fast and frantic, deeply textured beatlessness - but theyre all awesome. It seems that Off And Gone ceased to exist after this album, but a long list of aliases such as Floatpoint, Dreamdoktor H, Vuemorph, and Capm Stargazer can be mined for different, but equally compelling tuneage.

Friction & Spice - Remix LP - 11-Oct-07 10:59 AM
Two stellar tracks on this record, from a label that featured lots of great breaks tracks with trancey, ravey overtones. Theres a bit of a look ahead to DJ Frictions future records as Voyager with the remix of "You Make Me Feel So Good", a dark and bubbling track that snaps back and forth between breakbeats and straight beats while hissing hi-hats rise and fall. But it cant even compare to the awesome remix of "Groove Me" - a fast and funky breaks track which features a thrumming bassline and a build up to one of the best piano hooks Ive ever heard. Strangers will be hugged. Hands put up in the air. Youll feel glad to be alive when you put the needle on this one.

Reload - A Collection Of Short Stories - 19-Sep-07 08:37 PM
After so many long listens and late-night ruminations, this album still holds sounds to be uncovered and speaks of trips not yet taken. The full dynamic range is covered, from earthquakes and cityscapes to verdant dancefloor jams and humming drones, and the utmost musical care is audible at every turn. With every track so different and great, the whole thing adds up to an intelligent, gorgeous outer space rave-up, so strange and wonderful that it may as well have been dropped into our laps direct from a faraway planet. The booklet of stories is not that necessary... tracks like "Ehn" and "Le Soleil Et La Mer" put vivid, bursting pictures into the mind of the hopeful listener.

And to think that people heap praise on techno albums which hammer away at two or three ideas for sixty minutes... After getting our fill of those guys, we can go back and grab onto this compendium of outer-space delights, rewinding time and time again.

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