Carl Stone – Electronic Music From The Eighties And Nineties

True about the spine that reads wrongly "Electronic Music From The Seventies and Eighties", taken from the previous layout of course - i love errors so anyway it's ok for me :). I always loved deeply Carl Stone's digital music and was quite curious about listening to it on vinyl, suspecting that would be a loss of his famous avant garde clinical marvellous precise sound, but what a surprise! Those tracks are marvellous and haunting and sounds very nice, with an unusual warm vibe all the way. I listened to it once and i know i'll listen to it regularly - already a favorite of mine! so i can only recommend it.

Bizarrely the spine of the sleeve reads "Electronic Music From The Seventies and Eighties". Actually, only Track 1 is from the Nineties. When I first played it there was a load of crunchy "in-fill" noise for at least two-thirds of the 14 minutes on Side 1, and I was about to return the vinyl as a faulty pressing, but then I played it again and the crunchy noise miraculously disappeared. Very odd! (And, no, it wasn't meant to be part of the music!) Overall, an enjoyable album but done much better by the likes of Brian Eno or Harold Budd.

Vinyl is staticky with little clicks and pops here and there. There is definitely enough dead wax on the first disc, they could have spaced the grooves out a little more, they look crammed. Other than the surface noise, a nice sounding record, decent dynamics, full, rich electronic tones, an enjoyable listen to say the least.