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Member Since: Jan 23, 2001
Rank: 37
Rated 8 releases, average: 4.25
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Reviews:
Fennesz - Endless Summer - 30-Mar-02 06:19 PM
This is a strangely beautiful album, endearenly analogue and yet so nicely manipulated digitally- in the end leaving the perect balance of sharp and soft.
Lesser - Mensa Dance Squad - 12-Nov-01 03:57 PM
Lesser may be one of the most notoriously unlistenable artists out there, but I buy his music just the same. The first five tracks are minimal, noisy, energetic little things. The kind of stuff that makes my little brother ask if it is music, or just noise-skipping. "mensa dunce squad" and "drop it on the 1.4..." are lesser in a finer, and almost beautiful mix of jungly dance music with ambience, though in very different ways. Then it's pretty much back to noise and the kid606 mix at the end with some perfectly matched vocals. An inconsistent cd to be sure, but that's really what makes it fun.
Kid606 - 13-Aug-01 01:49 PM
A good way to start listening to Kid606 is to buy "Down With The Scene" and then go home and turn it up really loud right when the first track starts and wait about 10 seconds. Another fun thing is to get this thing called "Sonic Decimator" and hook it up in your Native Instruments or whatever software setup you have and pretend that you are Kid606. You will most likely find however that your tracks will not have the complexity, nor be as enjoyable, as any tracks on down with the scene.
For more fun try getting a copy of "Attitude" which is a 3" cd of NWA remixes out on the Kid's own tigerbeat6 label. It's just like being an angry kid again, except this time your anger sounds like it's going through the idmdspmofo-blender and coming out better than it went in, in most cases.
Kid606 shines the brightest on his whispier more emotional songs, like the 15th track on down with the scene, and a couple tracks on "ps, I love you." There is of course times when gabber-fast noise is just what is needed, and kid606 has lots of that.
Jake Mandell - 13-Aug-01 01:49 PM
Jake Mandell seems to go about music in a very interesting way. His recent album on Carpark, "Love Songs For Machines" is based around the idea in that title. It is an exploration of computer music through an IDM screen, and do make sure to annunciate the DANCE in IDM. It's like pop electronic a lot of the way through, but has lots of highlights even for the dedicated chin scratchers. The production on Love Songs For Machines is FLAWLESS. All the tones are full as they could be, unlike much of the thin sounding music that falls into the IDM slot. I'd dare say that I enjoy Jake Madell's ability as a producer more than his taste in music.
Cex -
When a song by cex starts it usually feels very natural and easy to listen to though its hard to pinpoint why. Synth lines weave in and out of most of Role Model alongside percussion that often feeling more like an r backing than dance music. There is spatterings of noise and more esoteric percussion sounds and breaks throughout, but they are subtle and well placed. Cex is more than just sound, the songs are solid works worthy of play in most any enviornment.
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