- Ontario, Canada
- Joined on March 13, 2003
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Collected records since mid 80's. Started as a DJ on university radio in 1988 playing underground music. In 1989 started a new radio show playing what techno records I could get my hands on. First regular club gig began in 1991. Continued spinning at clubs and raves up until 2000 or so. Now mostly teach philosophy, political theory and study the history of music...
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Hypnotic and utterly gorgeous music. Drones to get lost in.
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Advertisement for single can be found in New Musical Express, February 5th, 1983.
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Das Floß der Medusa is an intense and rather harrowing work. I think it's important to understand the staging that accompanies the work to fully understand the musical structure and aesthetic choices. In particular, the movement of the choir from the...
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Really fabulous sound on this recording. Rich string works that benefit from sumptuous sound.
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Seems these days Schumacher is taking advantage of the increase in interest for heavy techno to plunder his old sample collections. These are decent tracks (it is Schumacher) but they do seem a bit like workmanlike collages of famous techno moves from...
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I do prefer this version with the smaller ensemble. More pure and direct. Brings home the emotional essence of the music. Really wonderful stuff.
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Original is icky formula dance for the next corporate rave. I'm sure the investors will happily collect.
Mau P Remix, is clearly aimed at the house floors, a bit more subdued and bumpy. Hardwell brings the fuzz and energy, but is working with poor... See full review |
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Came to put it in my wantlist, and to my shock there's no vinyl!... That's an unwelcome surprise. Well, perhaps it will give them time to work on the cover (I mean this one is fine, but it seems a little simplistic).
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What kind of a charmed life must one live to get to put out on vinyl such dull and formulaic tracks. Surely, they could not have taken more than an hour to quickly churn out. It's actually too bad, because I quite like the idea of the spoken vocal and...
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All sorts of bonus points for being experimental here, and not staying within the ever more constricting lines of current techno sub-genres. First side feels like psychedelic techno jazz, while the second side is colder, more otherworldly, electronic...
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Certainly the best record of Moby's early rave days. This was a peak floor annihilator for me when I was DJing my first club gig back then. Also saw him in 92, at a rave. Those were the days.
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Sounds like standard progressive piano house from the mid-90s, just with a little extra GOA trance flavour.
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Low energy neo-trance that feels like it's more for reclining on couches with a fancy drink than dancing. Perhaps that's its niche, but it's not a very exciting one. If you make it through the plodding and formulaic A-side, the B-side is better....
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This was pure gold in 1987. Fabulous mix of the dark and experimental side of the electronic underground. Swooping from the purely experimental to pounding industrial dance numbers. It is all excellent, but I remember being particularly blown away by...
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It's so lovely to come back to this single after recent listening habits: trying to stay on top of things and work my way through the latest batch (here in 2023) of house singles, almost none of which seem to be able to muster up even a hint of...
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I'm here mostly for the B-side, with it's deep grungy buzzy bass goodness. Clippy-clop horse hoof percussion, that breaks into a determined stompy strutt. Meanwhile various rubbery wobbles de-center the trajectory. It is weird, and only for...
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If the ECM label did breaks and deep house, this is what I imagine it would sound like.
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I wonder how many DJ oriented techno tunes have got a 7" vinyl version out there...
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Immaculate deep and hypnotic techno. A rare instance where the flow is so entrancing that I really wish they'd gone with a single vinyl for it. Great stuff to drift along in.
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Shanti Radio has such lovely cover art. It goes perfectly with their dreamy trance-house. But this cover is particularly nice.
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So it seems this is first released as a single in 1979? Want to be clear for music history reasons.
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Oldschool sounds, while not simply copying old forms. I have heard so much empty and un-creative copying of old styles lately, it's lazy and lame. But this is how you do it. Sounds retro and new at the same time.
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Commendably consistent quality. I can't be bothered with throwaway digital "releases". I only buy vinyl. So when I do, I really value records that aren't just one great song and a bunch of filler. This Swoose EP is completely solid all the way...
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Lots of discussion of audio quality, but I'm not adding to that, I'm just happy that the repress finally gave the vinyl version a decent cover. Who was responsible for that abomination of an original LP sleeve? Siouxsie looks good, but what an ugly...
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Great production on these Stojche tracks. Clean, deep and punchy. But the music is very ordinary. Too bad, have heard some great things from him. The Deniro tracks are more dreamy and atmospheric, but only 'Instore' really feels like it's doing...
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Every single track on this is excellent. Like your dub techno with a bit of thump, then this is for you.
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Got to agree with this. If you are not capable of producing new forms in your chosen art, then you should be doing something else. You just don't have what it takes. Anyone can copy, and we don't need endless copies of what has already been done.
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Oh my, just randomly bought a copy of this, and it is cool. 1000 Stars transcends the limitations of the techno genre and is frankly just a cool piece of music, period. I listen to hundreds and hundreds of tracks every year, and this thing from 10...
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A mix of Pit Piccinelli, Fred Gales, Walter Maioli - Amazonia 6891 in the use of Amazon field recordings mixed with electronics, and FUJI||||||||||TA - Kōmori in pitching down high frequency nature sounds. So feels a little derivative of the ideas of those earlier works. But the electronics are far more to the...
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Just go get the A-ha original that this is plundering and be done with it.
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Just to add to the anecdotal research: mine is P/1612. If there were 2000 for every letter, that would be a lot. But I don't know what the letters stand for.
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Really well done for what it is. But when the music so closely mimics its templates, it is hard to get excited about it. Like painting a replica Mondrian, but the red and blue squares are in different places.
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A little bit of electro fizzing and a stomping beat do not a track make. An EP of solid foundations - what little there is, is good - that ideally would have been built upon with something more.
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Competent but ordinary techno that does nothing new. It will do the job if you have it.
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Really nice sleeve design on this. My respects to the designer.
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Wow, now that is what I can a failure of a mix. Destroys the emotional dynamics of the song and buries the vocal. What for? A beat so generic it's mind numbing?
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A top release in the ambient music genre. Even for Astral Industries, with its many quality releases, this stands out. It really does feel like a journey of exploration. You can listen to it, rather than merely have have it as background noise while...
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Sounds like early 90s techno. Seems to be a sort of revival of this sound. But there is so much out there. For instance; Planet E label, or maybe even earlier stuff on Transmat. Or see some of the early stuff by Orbital for instance. Anyway, it is...
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Melodic, inventive, fun. Three adjectives that I could not have used for the last 100 or so banal and formulaic deep/house records I labored to listen through. Refreshing.
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A-side is ho hum, but that intense B-side is one of the best things I have heard from New Frames, and they have so much good stuff... Both crushingly noisy and and bit more musical without any loss of pounding intensity, and all the better for it. Ep...
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Seems as though more than a couple of folks have decided to do an edit of this. Midnight Runners "Bright Star" seems pretty close.
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Some nice rhythmic variation in all the noise blasts. It's nice that there's more going on than just ear bludgeoning. Do wish the cover had been better though, detracts from the whole package by making it a bit cartoonish.
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Deep dreamy techno that is both propulsive and meditative. Excellent for late night space adventures.
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