From: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org (faxlist-digest) To: faxlist-digest@monkey.org Subject: faxlist-digest V2001 #74 Reply-To: faxlist@2350.org Sender: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org Errors-To: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org Precedence: bulk faxlist-digest Friday, May 18 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 074 (fax) Silence V Re: (fax) maybe it's stupid, but... (fax) Re: FAX and Rather Interesting Polls (fax) Old Stuff on mp3? Re: (fax) Old Stuff on mp3? (fax) technology vs. composition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:22:49 +0100 From: Edward Jones Subject: (fax) Silence V Finally purchased the above yesterday, and have had time to give it a quick audition. Also read the recently posted review on 2350.org. so thought I would put my tuppence worth in (for what it's worth!). What can I say? A return to form, at long last, from Mr Kuhlmann! As Wolfgang said in his review, there is no real technical innovation in there, but when the music sounds as sublime (in places - and these make up the vast majority of the disc) as this, who cares? This one is a more natural successor to "Silence III", and is certainly the best thing the label has put out for some time. The opening track is a very static, beautiful piece of sustained melodic ambience, with subtle string textures and a soprano vocal. Gorgeous. Elsewhere we see the long awaited return of "the voice" of Silence, muttering the usual inconsequential pretentious rubbish about peace and tranquility etc., but in an acoustically appealing way. All this praise from a self-confessed jaded FAX cynic as myself must mean that it is worth a purchase. All we need now is some "super exceptional" material from the likes of Spyra, Benisch et al on the sub-label and we could have a recovery on our hands. Okay, views from the floor...... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:54:11 +0100 From: "Paul Milligan" Subject: Re: (fax) maybe it's stupid, but... >...has anyone ever taken a poll of people's favourite ... You can find several personal rating guides and a consensus thing on Roy's Fax Galleria (under Fax Facts) ... there's a link for it on the 2350 links page. >if you want to do it, i'd volunteer to take all responses via private >email and tabulate them. But, an updated consensus would be interesting, as the last one is from way back. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 05:12:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Roy SeGuine Subject: (fax) Re: FAX and Rather Interesting Polls > From: laerm > Subject: (fax) maybe it's stupid, but... > ...has anyone ever taken a poll of people's favourite fax releases? i > think it'd be a great resource to have, if not. this way people just > getting into the label can take a look at a list and see how each one was laerm, there are about a half dozen FAX and Rather Interesting polls at the FAX Galleria - see http://www.usatt.org/rseguine/FAX/ Additionally, for those who have never visited, this is what's at the FAX and Rather Interesting Galleria: * Galleria Home - A link that returns you to the top level of the FAX Galleria. * What's FAX? - Fill in the form and tell us what FAX music is for all to see. * FAX Categories - FAX music divided into lyrics, adjectives, and like categories. * Amusement Park - Can you solve the puzzles and add your name to Namlook's Book of FAX Life? Loads of fun! * FAX Polls - Vote for your FAX favorite release of 1999 and see the results. * FAX Facts - Collected assortment of interesting FAX related reading material. * FAX Questionnaire - Help Namlook collect demographics. Answer the questions and you might win a prize! Visit the FAX Galleria at http://www.usatt.org/rseguine/FAX/ ===== - --- Roy SeGuine rseguine@yahoo.com *Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased* Dan12:4 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:07:53 -0500 From: "Jonathan Osborne" Subject: (fax) Old Stuff on mp3? This question has probably come up before... but are there any provisions for trading the old out-of-print albums on mp3? I'm talking about discs that aren't available on emusic.com, and stuff that's long gone. Examples include the three "G" albums from 1993: Glitch: Inertia, Gamma, Gorn, plus the rare sublabel stuff like Houdini and IF 2. Obviously I'd buy these discs if I could find them, but I'm afraid they're just too rare...and I think this is where the beauty of mp3 comes in...no one's losing money because there are no more discs to sell. Any thoughts? forcasa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:56:23 +1000 From: "andre@faxlabel.com" Subject: Re: (fax) Old Stuff on mp3? on 18/05/2001 2:07 AM, Jonathan Osborne at forcasa@yahoo.com wrote: > This question has probably come up before... but are there any provisions > for trading the old out-of-print albums on mp3? I'm talking about discs > that aren't available on emusic.com, and stuff that's long gone. Examples > include the three "G" albums from 1993: Glitch: Inertia, Gamma, Gorn, plus > the rare sublabel stuff like Houdini and IF 2. > > Obviously I'd buy these discs if I could find them, but I'm afraid they're > just too rare...and I think this is where the beauty of mp3 comes in...no > one's losing money because there are no more discs to sell. Any thoughts? ask namlook. Australian distribution & mailorder for Fax + 49-69/450464 Germany http://www.hyperreal.org/fax/ http://www.2350.org fax email list - mailto:faxlist-request@2350.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:06:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Hyp Nom Subject: (fax) technology vs. composition > Does a Bach Piano piece sound out of date because the Piano is > now old technology? > If the *music* is good, then it doesn't matter if newer and better > synths or computers come out... the point is that new instruments/technology tempts musicians to play more with the sound than with composition sometimes. in my opinion, one has to concede this fact to the musicians. otherwise, one could not accept some FAX classics like From Within I with its simple arpeggio structures... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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