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Name: Ultrasound Home Page: http://www.bleep43.com Member Since: Mar 17, 2003 Rank: 94 Average Vote Received: Correct (4.00, 5 votes) Rated 1104 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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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 somethings going on here in this understated oddity, even with its slightly dated pad samples, which is darker than the sum of its parts and has alerted not just my ears, Im sure, to listen out for other release by this artist.
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, youll marvel at the tight arps and house licks and booming kicks. Pull it out. It mixes well and youll get some comments from the nippers who werent 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 - were still talking lashings of 808, but its *how* they were made thats interesting to JS/GD geeks: I think were talking a lot of software and samples here, as opposed to the many analogue tones were 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 its 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. Its 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 - its nothing short of magnificent: shiver down the back of the spine stuff, throughout.
Just a point about the _audio_ quality. Im 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, its a trace of the sound of older digital recording technology. 24/bit 96KHz, simply didnt 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 didnt quite blow-up so much and its not hard to see why. Its not exactly out-there in terms of elements, but the arrangement is pretty odd. Its 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 its mostly tone-neutral, its a mixer.