Made me mad? Sent me to sleep more like!
It's nearly always the case that the things that are touted for their supposedly superior musicality, are actually - on inspection - rather meagre, musically speaking.
Especially when compared to the alleged hoi polloi of the day.
Far more startling melody-dissonance clashes and harmonic strangeness to be found in the jungle tekno of the time.
(And we won't even mention the rhythmic shortfall).
But I am preaching to the choir here, no doubt!
"Mondrin" - I assume there's an "a" missing here?
I liked the title of their second full-length effort, which was three years a-comin', Time Tourist but not sure I ever listened to it.
Yet like so many IDM-ers they had a perfectly solid pre-career doing hardcore
Like this moderately entertaining bit of novelty bleep-acid
This one even has a breakbeat-y groove and a mentasmic synth-smear
This has a piano vamp and a nice curl of diva vocal
A blippy chugger with a fairground Waltzer-like riff
Moderately bangin'!
But then within a year or so, they opted for restraint and politesse
from a less-good titled EP Retreat from Unpleasant Realities
1 comment:
Yeah, that early-mid 90s take on shiny Detroit techno wasn’t particularly interesting. All sibilant top end and no real heft.
I had a colleague who used to play this stuff at work in the late 90s and it really dragged on at album length.
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