From: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org (faxlist-digest) To: faxlist-digest@monkey.org Subject: faxlist-digest V2001 #12 Reply-To: faxlist@2350.org Sender: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org Errors-To: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org Precedence: bulk faxlist-digest Thursday, January 25 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 012 (fax) Spyra (fax) tetsu (fax) Spyra - reviewed by List Hog Re: (fax) tetsu (fax) Re: faxlist-digest V2001 #11 (fax) Time to trade R: (fax) best artwork on fax (fax) faxART critik (fax) Second Nature review (fax) sun electric live ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:20:07 -0000 From: "J.S.Draper" Subject: (fax) Spyra Can anyone give a mini review giving a flavour of Future of the Past and My Little Garden of Sounds by Spyra? Cheers, Jon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:39:01 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe Vannerem Subject: (fax) tetsu Some time ago, somebody (I think Phonaut) announced an interview with Tetsu Inoue, and offered the possibility of 'passing on' questions of members of the list. Can that interview be read somewhere on the web ? Cheers Philippe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:20:39 +0000 From: "Paul Milligan" Subject: (fax) Spyra - reviewed by List Hog >Can anyone give a mini review giving a flavour of Future of the Past >and My Little Garden of Sounds by Spyra? Jon No time to go into detail but hope this helps... If you like his 3 Fax releases you *will* like both of these. Little Garden is a bit more twee then the others, less ambient and more towards traditional synth. Future is his best ever IMO - the title perfectly describes it. Heavily influenced by 70/80's T. Dream/Schulze but, transmorphed into 90's ambient style. His least commercial and most understated = his most mature, closest to Sferics. pM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:54:45 -0600 (CST) From: Phonaut Subject: Re: (fax) tetsu > Some time ago, somebody (I think Phonaut) announced an interview with > Tetsu Inoue, and offered the possibility of 'passing on' questions of > members of the list. Can that interview be read somewhere on the web ? Hi Philippe, the interview has not been done yet, so there is still time to pass on questions to me if you like. Things were a little busy over the past couple months so we postponed it for a bit. Tetsu was moving back into his place @ 2350 Broadway, was refurbishing his place, i was fairly busy too, holidays were had, etc. but it's going to happen in February for sure. Wanted to have the unveiling of the v2.0 official homepage, the release of his new mini-album, and the interview all at once for a triple wammy, but it's not going to sync so nicely since i've gone ahead and uploaded the webpage to hyperreal already. so if you've got questions go ahead and send 'em on over to me. n. onnow: Wireless . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . Tetsu Inoue Homepage v2: http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/tetsu/ Radioshow Playlists: http://i.am/phonaut / http://www.phonaut.org/ Music Trading Page: http://ww1.math.luc.edu/~njurcin/trade.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:07:48 +0000 From: Rowland Atkinson Subject: (fax) Re: faxlist-digest V2001 #11 Paul said: >Therein lies the problem of Fax today. Too inward looking. Id go further and say the problem is the music isnt very good/exciting or moving in any new direction. Im sure Pete would say that the sublabel isnt dead but I suppose it might as well be. On SE, Present is their best album along with Live (one of the best ambient discs of all time) but they are very different styles. Present is just the most gorgeous, full and delicious IDM style disc I probably own. Had to say this! cheers r ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:15:33 +0000 From: "Paul Milligan" Subject: (fax) Time to trade I've got 3 titles - a couple of well regarded ones from 96 & 98, plus one of the decent ones that came out last year ... PK with Rob Gordon : "Ozoona" (PW30) Spyra : "Etherlands" (PS08/93) PK with Peter Prochir : "Possible Gardens" (PK08/151) Also (can't believe this!) still got a spare copy of the 2CD set "Lifeforms" by F.S.O.L. which no Fax lover should be without, IMO of course. All perfect, discs and art. My wants are ... Tetsu Inoue : "Slow & Low" Victor Sol : "Aerial Service Area 2" Sun Electric : "Present" Sun Electric : "Kitchen" V. Delay : "Entain" and certain Em:t comps I don't have yet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:44:11 +0100 From: "stm" Subject: R: (fax) best artwork on fax > it would be interesting to know what cover artwork on the label > you guys consider as most interesting/beautiful In no particular order: 2350 Broadway (aw) From Within 2 2350 Broadway 3 Sad World 1 Datacide II Electro Harmonix and the idea of ... the circle within the circle Riccardo stm =/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tradepages www.crosswinds.net/~stm73/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:45:50 +1100 From: "andre@faxlabel.com" Subject: (fax) faxART critik on 24/01/2001 8:37 PM, Paul Milligan at paulmilligan@btconnect.com wrote: >> Possible Gardens > > Don't like the new ones. Sorry Andre - some of them *are* excellent > pieces of graphical design but, they don't have the same unique-to-Fax > "ambience" as the old style circles. I've said it before and I'll > probably say it again. I dont entirly disagree... personally i think pete should never have gone outside the circles.. how good does the collection of worldlabel discs look pre breakout? but it sure is fun pushin pixels for some awesome artists.. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:12:19 +0000 From: Rowland Atkinson Subject: (fax) Second Nature review He ye are me hearties! Just a bit of laugh but..... Second Nature - Bill Laswell, Atom Heart and tetsu Inoue (PS 08/78) If environmental sound be the food of ambient play on I say! Taking as its inspiration a synthetic variation on the natural sounds which often form the basis of ambient musics Second Nature brings together three of the biggest talents in the FAX stable; Inoue, Laswell and Atom Heart. In their alternate universe, not so very far from the Aerial Service Area, lies a planet not unlike our own. It is lush in tall vegetation which conceals most of the planet's surface. The unusual green sea of this planet laps against enormous stretches of silvery sand. No one has been here before but for the unmanned landing craft that make occasional forays to unlock the mineral richness of this place. Their moaning engines can be traced to the Synthetic Forest where an emotive warbling sound accompanies our first glimpse. It's concealed fauna chattering and clicking in the distance leads to a curious and super-fast spoken voice and a movement of bending and growing sound like an animal cry infinitely slowed-down. What is going on? Things come clearer into focus with a coherent twittering chime and a pedestrian bassline and steam-driven beat. Being on the Green Paste of the sea is odd, aren't we near some kind of place of worship? Those sounds are certainly calming but soon make way for the pulse of our radar screen and shimmering patterns of light, the effect is hypnotic; slow use of keyboards, uplifting atmospheres and nostalgia-inducing scales. Altogether a relaxing place. The soundscape of the Artificial Seaside is no less so. The reconstructed sound of a long lapping wave is combined with gleaming sounds and an otherworldly theme. This is built from the super-tweaked sound of a water droplet, deep bass and a sentimental electronic refrain. The two steps forward and two back of the bassline are covered with cracked chips of sound, fragments of an exotic soundscape and whining screams hollowed out by the heat of the sun. As we take our leave the Landing Cycle comes into view and the ever-descending washes of its sombre engine glide by. The sounds are subtle, mild even, but also melancholy with a hint of uneasiness. Given time I could grow to like this place. rA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:31:30 -0600 From: Subject: (fax) sun electric live just wondering where one can find sun electric live ... i know it's a rarity and out of print and all that but the talk about it has made me curious and want to explore the sun electric road further ... i only have present: two thumbs up later, george ------------------------------ End of faxlist-digest V2001 #12 ******************************* --- + To post: ; to mail a person: + To unsubscribe: "unsubscribe" to + Online info at: www.faxlabel.com www.hyperreal.org/fax www.2350.org