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Name: Ultrasound Home Page: http://www.bleep43.com Member Since: Mar 17, 2003 Rank: 93 Average Vote Received: Correct (4.00, 5 votes) Rated 1078 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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Seduction - Seduction - 04-Sep-08 04:56 AM
Every mix - yep each one, is a wickedly produced killer, including the 'filler' ones on the flip. It does sound a little dated nowadays, but not in a way which makes you want to put your forefinger down the back of your throat. Rather, you'll marvel at the tight arps and house licks and booming kicks. Pull it out. It mixes well and you'll get some comments from the nippers who weren't there last time around.
Transllusion - L.I.F.E. - 04-Sep-08 04:30 AM
A few further things worth noting: the instrumentation here sounds a lot more digital to me - especially the drums - than on many of the other Drexciya LPs. The character of the percussion still sounds broadly similar - we're still talking lashings of 808, but it's *how* they were made that's interesting to JS/GD geeks: I think we're talking a lot of software and samples here, as opposed to the many analogue tones we're used to with Drexciya. Another thing is the melancholy which permeates all of these tracks. Oceanic sadness is pretty unique to this Drexciya LP, in the way that it's more or palpable on all of the songs [rather than one or two - as is the case with most Drexciya albums] whether in the background or to the fore. It's interesting to speculate, given this must have been amongst the last works James Stinson completed. Finally, you might be surprised that in fact despite all the foregoing, there is a extremely JITWORTHY LP hiding within what seem mostly like home listening, made-for-CD-tracks. Turn it up to plus 7/8. See what I mean? Electro till the end, really.
Carl Craig - The Album Formerly Known As... - 08-Jun-08 06:12 AM
Not much more needs saying about the aesthetic quality and standard of this LP I feel - it's nothing short of magnificent: shiver down the back of the spine stuff, throughout.
Just a point about the _audio_ quality. I'm curious about the unmistakable 'crunchy' although otherwise technically excellent quality of the 'sound'. It seems evident on most of the tracks save for 'One Day Soon (Version)' and 'Landcruising (Version)'. It reminds me of mucking about many years ago with digital recording and many different sample sizes and sample rates. These somewhat harsher sounding tracks seem to have been recorded or finished in something other than 16-bit 44Khz: so-called CD quality. Hints of aesthetic intent? It does aid the 'surface' retro flavor of this, in a good way, I think. Or perhaps, bearing in mind that this is after all a revamped version of an LP made ten years earlier, it's a trace of the sound of older digital recording technology. 24/bit 96KHz, simply didn't exist back then, certainly not for a burgeoning electronic music producer in Detroit. So no need to adjust your set. Just marvel at how good it sounds, in all ways, despite the limitations of the tech available when it was made.
Vanisher, The - Temporary EP - 29-Apr-08 09:46 AM
A lot of you will already know 'Elementary', by ear, which got some air time after it appeared, like the other B side track, on the 'Time: Space' CD on Transmat. The big track on side A didn't quite blow-up so much and it's not hard to see why. It's not exactly out-there in terms of elements, but the arrangement is pretty odd. It's comprised of a barely finished, muddy, oscillating synth phrase on the lower mid range, some backward string washes topped-off with occasional intercession of chattering sax (which might as well have been sampled, although it appears a contributor has dug out the person who played it.) The real utility of 'Dark Passage' though is the carefully step-sequenced drum run which gets sent to a nicely-timed delay half-way through. It will work on the floor and because it's mostly tone-neutral, it's 'a mixer'.
Rotating Assembly, The - Rusty Waters - 04-Apr-08 06:50 AM
Actually, toward the end of this record, as the kick and bass become a lot fuller, you don't have to listen too carefully to hear some low-end distortion. In fact I quite like that. It does make me wonder whether this piece was recorded at least partly to mic. Certainly the ambience has a depth and natural diffuseness which you get when you put a mic in the room and say to the guys "just play". 'Rusty Waters' is a floaty piece which stays just on the right side of house for me, despite it being played by a full band. The vocals, although not very audible (another sign that this could be 'live') are sweet and sad-sounding. The build of the whole thing from Warren Harris' solo bass licks to the mid-paced thumping close is exquisite whilst somehow remaining modest, unpolished (remember?) and understated in that good ole' Detroit way. Please go and hear it.
