ultrasound

Name: Ultrasound
Home Page: http://www.bleep43.com
Member Since: Mar 17, 2003
Rank: 98
Average Vote Received: Correct (4.00, 5 votes)
Rated 1136 releases, average: 4.27
Location: United Kingdom
Profile: I'm a music lover first and foremost and that extends to almost all types of music. But I suppose there is a bias of electronic (rhythmic) music in my collection. The URL above doesn't belong to me, but it's important to my friends and I. If you click on it, you can find out more about what we do. Most especially you can find out how you might hear some mind-expanding electronic music, mostly (but not exclusively) which you can dance to. You can also learn about the rich history of the music which we like and about the culture which is associated with that music, from the past, to now.
If you have something from my wantlist and you want to do 'business', I'm not averse to this, but please note, I NEVER do eBay. My real collection lags behind the version you'll see here, so if you like what you see so far, maybe check back sometime. Isn't that what it's (discogs) all about? I hope this note is less pretentious than it used to be!

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In Sync - Storm - 01-Nov-09 06:21 AM
Two swigs from a bottle of vintage nectar, from a master vintner. These tracks are now about 17 years old. Nevertheless, in my view, you will find more intrigue, idiosyncracy and just foot-awakening magic in each of them than resides in the entire 50 or so clicking, whip-cracking f**k-and-forget European house tracks which are released every week. The titles 'Storm', 'Warm' are evocative but not much more than a wry reference to the first Gulf War which raged at the time of the first release. Apart from that, both tracks are exceedingly 'warm' sounding yet at the same time stark in portraying that essential minimalism of back in the day, which had as much to do with the limitations of hardware technology, as any deliberate gender-squatting. 'Storm' and 'Warm' embody the principle of simplicity which comes from the heart and hence remains in tune with the heart.

Diego - Open - 30-Oct-09 10:41 AM
An odd mix - albeit nothing much that pushes the mold to the point it might crack. It's just that it's a hodgepodge of styles which aren't usually lumped together: jazz funk, disco, balls-out rave and techno. Don't get me wrong though: I really dig and respect this LP. Also, to be fair, the styles are worn reasonably lightly - there's nothing here that is impeccably authentic to those genres, and I don't take that as a fault. That brings me sort of neatly to the idea that there *is* a common factor linking all the styles: this LP is of course very, very 'digital' sounding. Apart from the myriad synthesizer parts in each track - each one pretty articulate in itself - it's pretty clear that the sessions behind the album happened mostly, if not completely, inside a computer, or two. So anti-digital fascists avoid, but the rest of you might like to check out an excellent collection of tightly put together techno rendered in various styles of funk and dance of the last three decades.

Robert Hood - Nighttime World Volume 2 - 04-Aug-09 01:54 PM
In fact, don't expect the typical minimal line, although do expect 'Detroit Techno'. Do expect that you will need to have re-defined and widened your view of what you regard as 'techno' perhaps many years ago. I have the idea that most people who are aware of the typical Robert Hood record, would most likely be surprised that 14 years ago, he released an LP which mostly contained lush downtempo melodic pieces. And yes, I am correct in stating that he released such a record 14 years ago. I was not referring just to Nighttime World Volume 2. Nighttime World Volume One was released in 1995. Both that and this really ought to be seen as a pair. Actually I believe ideally, the pair ought to be taken as one very long LP. Both contain tightly composed but smooth electronic mood enhancers, each with a quirky edge or two: a hint of in your face compression there, a deliberately faux saxophone patch there. Volume 2, like volume 1, has a few more recognizably Hood-like techno tracks. Despite that, mostly, it's about the chilled, slightly melancholy, surprisingly elaborate - surprising that is, if you think Robert Hood is just about minimal techno - hip-hop and IDM flavored tracks.

Robert Hood - Minimal Nation - 18-Jul-09 06:46 AM
The year was 1994. Something was mutating in the music from the Bladerunner-esque city at the top of the Mid-West: the hitherto string-laden albeit abstracted futurism of techno was corroding down to something which was closer to the frame of its chassis. It was this LP - and it became a marker of a turning point in techno music at least. In the context of a new millennium some newish things become apparent: 1. Some of it is not very 'minimal'. ['Internal Empire' is actually a lot starker and sinister than this LP, not to decry 'Minimal Nation' for *not* having those qualities to any great extent.] Also, don't be surprised by the odd lush pad sequence to well up over the trackiness. 2. It's _extremely_ funky. If you know the theory of 'on-the-one', Test it here. This is black future Funk with a capital 'F'. 3. Even though it doesn't really sound dated in 2009 - it's very evidently from a different era: the analogue atmosphere is very palpable. You can almost smell it. [You can certainly hear the hum of the cheapo recorder this was finished on]. And there's circumstantial evidence everywhere of the VCOs and diodes used to make this LP - one track is titled 'SH101'. In my view, this remains a milestone - don't miss it [again].

Robert O'Dell - The Elite - 26-Dec-08 05:12 AM
A heady mix of inner city Detroit ghetto life, party pills, cynicism; and of course the gay undertones are there too, all across a low-res, insistent break. Not exactly a mold breaker, but something's going on here in this understated oddity, even with it's slightly dated pad samples, which is darker than the sum of its parts and has alerted not just my ears, I'm sure, to listen out for other release by this artist.

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