From: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org (faxlist-digest) To: faxlist-digest@monkey.org Subject: faxlist-digest V2001 #46 Reply-To: faxlist@2350.org Sender: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org Errors-To: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org Precedence: bulk faxlist-digest Friday, March 30 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 046 Re: (fax) Track 8 - Waiting For Snow (fax) Moods (fax) FAX rarities (fax) FAX rarities (fax) Tetsu Inoue Homepage March2001 update [psycho acoustic review] (fax) radio/net Faxmix 3 transmission in 25 hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:48:11 -0600 (CST) From: Alistair White Subject: Re: (fax) Track 8 - Waiting For Snow i'm a bit late on the thread but had to chime in. the most beautiful minutes on fax? Ring. of. Power.. bliss. - -Al -Alistair White www.booyaka.com/~al On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Edward Jones wrote: > arguably five of the most beautiful minutes to be found on any Fax release. > > Discuss. > --- > + To post: ; to mail a person: > + To unsubscribe: "unsubscribe" to > + Online info at: www.faxlabel.com www.hyperreal.org/fax www.2350.org > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:16:36 -0500 From: muziknut2@juno.com Subject: (fax) Moods Is it me, or does "Semarra" by Dr. Atmo & Ramin remind you of 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" reinvented for the techno generation? And just what is the fundamentalist preacher saying throughout the piece anyway? "Highlow" by Victor Sol & Niko Heyduck is a constant reference for moods of gloom and impending doom (in cinematic terms). But wouldn't the piece itself make a great soundtrack for a short film? Peace. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:14:11 +0100 From: Rowland Atkinson Subject: (fax) FAX rarities Check out the catalogue at this site, they are still stocking a lot of very old RI and FAX titles: http://www.cue-records.de/english.html rA NP: SIlence - literally! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:59:47 +0100 From: "Paul Milligan" Subject: (fax) FAX rarities >Check out the catalogue at this site, they are still stocking a lot of very >old RI and FAX titles: >http://www.cue-records.de/english.html Back in early '99 I used Joerg (Cue Records) quite a bit and in those days he could get most of the 93 rarities @ 100 DM (say 30 English / 45 US) although most have now gone completely and I think it's more than 100 DM for those he can get. If it's not listed on his site then it's officially out-of-print. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:47:04 -0600 (CST) From: Phonaut Subject: (fax) Tetsu Inoue Homepage March2001 update [psycho acoustic review] The latest update to the Official Tetsu Inoue Homepage is brought to you by our very own listmember Auraphage, who has just contributed his analysis of Psycho Acoustic, Inoue's first release that breaks away from more traditional ambience and containing 100% mind-warping DSP compositions. Check it out at: http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/tetsu good job auraphage! [review reprinted below] n. np: From Within 3 . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- Psycho Acoustic - released May 19, 1998 (Tzadik, NYC) Professing to be bored and disinterested with the conventions of electronic music, particularly those of a traditionally 'ambient' nature, Tetsu Inoue seems to have made good on his philosophy. "Psycho Acoustic", released by Tzadik in 1998, is an electrifying portrait of a creative mind actualizing change. Going further than simply abjuring cliches and conventions, Inoue forcibly rockets himself away from them in almost every possible way and crafts a detailed masterwork in the process. Technically and philosophically, "Psycho Acoustic" is ostensibly as far away from Inoue's past work as possible. Whereas his established classics on the FAX label were characteristically slow-moving, melodic 'ambient' pieces, long-form and sometimes epic in length, and constructed entirely with analog electronics, the artworks that comprise "Psycho Acoustic" are high-speed and frenetic masses of meticulous brevity. Utterly in contrast to Inoue's "body music" of the recent past, the nine tracks presented here are entities of infinitesimal DSP intricacy and are accordingly polished. Reportedly thousands of hours went into the creation of these pieces, several of which fall merely near the 3-minute mark. This fact is even more impressive when considering Inoue used to record entire albums in the space of one day. The only attribute this new art of Inoue shares with his old work is the profound way in which his music evolves so smoothly, so naturally, so organically. The listener's utter immersion and surrender elicited by his older work remains, at its core, unchanged. Within this new context of ultrafast composition, however, the naturalistic sense of progression is compressed and brought to the fore. Jarring and capricious though this album may be, not one element ever seems out of place. Melody, harmony, and rhythm were at one time familiar tools of Inoue. "Psycho Acoustic" almost wantonly mocks all three. The majority of sounds to be found here are entirely nonmelodic, and those that are melodic stand out all the more colorfully for it. Harmony is reduced to sporadic clusterings and disjointed fields of relation. Rhythm is for the most part completely disregarded, and is in its few appearances perverted and abased. The only track to prominently feature rhythm is the album's finale, which features another Japanese musician, Ikue Mori. (Here, a simple galloping beat provides a flat projection upon which countless microscopic blips, cracks, waves, whistles, scratches, ripples, and sprays liberally cavort.) All of this is not to say that "Psycho Acoustic" is an unstructured mess. Quite to the contrary, this is a work full of strong points. Inoue displays a master's touch for sound design, texture, and logical, constructive sound-grouping. Every element of this challenging album is laboriously conceived and put in place. Far from his former gilded euphorics, there is nary a moment to be found here where the listening space is not tingling, tearing, waving, rippling, mutating, pulsing, fracturing or crumpling. A great sense of nonthreatening tension permeates all of it, and the unpredictability is wonderful. Granted, some listeners will inevitably be put off by Inoue's unfettered, almost Dadaist performance here. It's an undeniably idiomatic work, but in my view one that reflects the raw moment of inspiration and the evolution of an intense musical mind. Expectations are shattered in the confrontational mischief of "Psycho Acoustic", and in the resulting disorientation, we the audience enjoy the fruits of an artist's metamorphosis. (review by Auraphage) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:29:02 -0600 (CST) From: Phonaut Subject: (fax) radio/net Faxmix 3 transmission in 25 hours from http://i.am/phonaut Program for Friday night (3/30) Episode XII: Faxmix 3 this week's show features a mix of releases from Germany's Faxlabel. in round 3, the focus is on atmospheric downtempo beats and synth-saturated beatless passages. here's what's coming along with me so far- Atom Heart + Namlook : Jet Chamber II Tetsu Inoue + Namlook : 2350 Broadway 2 Atom Heart + Tetsu Inoue : Flowerhead Jonah Sharp + Tetsu Inoue : Electro Harmonix Spacetime Continuum : Sea Biscuit David Reeves : Otras 2 Namlook : Silence IV more to come... ______________________________________ show airs friday nights at 12:30am central(local) time phonaut presents semutamusic [division of streetbeat/etc-max50] streetbeat host dj info http://server.wnur.org/streetbeat/djs.htm outside the chicago area goto http://www.wnur.org/live.ram chicago area tune to 89.3 fm WNUR ------------------------------ End of faxlist-digest V2001 #46 ******************************* --- + To post: ; to mail a person: + To unsubscribe: "unsubscribe" to + Online info at: www.faxlabel.com www.hyperreal.org/fax www.2350.org