Mono(tm)-RI038-1996-sfE

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sfE

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82,50 MB

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2003-07-05

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  ░ ▒ █   Mono(tm)-RI038                                        █ █ ░
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  ▓ ▒ █ Supplier   : sfE                    Date  : may-18-2003 █ ▒ ▓
  █ ░ █ Ripper     : spaun                  Style : electronic  █ ░ █
  █   ▓ w/ help of : cdex 1.40b/lame        Trax  : 07          ▓   █
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    █ █    label     : RATHER INTERESTING                       █ █
    █ █    code      : RI038                                    █ █
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    █ █    comments  : The perhaps allowable criticsm has been  █ █
    █ █                levied that _mono trademark_ is a        █ █
    █ █                somewhat, well, monochromatic            █ █
    █ █                recapitulation of many of atom heart's   █ █
    █ █                most well-worn compositional concerns,   █ █
    █ █                offering little by way of novelty and    █ █
    █ █                development. Perhaps (and that's a       █ █
    █ █                **big** perhaps), but from where i'm     █ █
    █ █                standing it's good to see Uwe focusing   █ █
    █ █                in for a meditation on one of the most   █ █
    █ █                important (and hardly well-understood,   █ █
    █ █                if popular comment is to be believed)    █ █
    █ █                aspects of his compositional             █ █
    █ █                palette--electro. While bandied about as █ █
    █ █                if a listen or two to _The Man Machine_  █ █
    █ █                and a couple of Egyptian Lover tracks    █ █
    █ █                were sufficient to pass comment, in fact █ █
    █ █                electro represents something of the      █ █
    █ █                cornerstone of a wide range of           █ █
    █ █                contemporary experimental electronic     █ █
    █ █                ("club") music, from Autechre to Higher  █ █
    █ █                Intelligence Agency, Spacetime Continuum █ █
    █ █                to Alec Empire. It also represents a     █ █
    █ █                good potion of the influence to be       █ █
    █ █                gleaned from atom heart's oevre, and one █ █
    █ █                the centrality of which has become more  █ █
    █ █                and more obvious with each release.      █ █
    █ █                _Mono Trademark_, from the grafitti      █ █
    █ █                cover art to the opening speech          █ █
    █ █                synthetics of _Greetings From Planet     █ █
    █ █                Knowledge_ (and continuing on through    █ █
    █ █                just about every track) is involved with █ █
    █ █                exploring that influence--in depth. It's █ █
    █ █                to be heard not so much in the           █ █
    █ █                programming or the arrangements (this    █ █
    █ █                ain't no boogie-down booty-shake         █ █
    █ █                electro), but in the range of sounds     █ █
    █ █                involved: the telltale electronic        █ █
    █ █                breaks, the sprangy 808 cowbells, the    █ █
    █ █                sharp q-tip attacks, the (faux)          █ █
    █ █                scratching, the thick basslines and      █ █
    █ █                goofy melodies, the stiff split-time     █ █
    █ █                high-hat rhythms, and, of course, the    █ █
    █ █                hand-claps...oh, those glorious          █ █
    █ █                handclaps, best expressed in the final   █ █
    █ █                moments of the last track, "'E' is for   █ █
    █ █                electro"--"And/you/are/stupid/if/you/hav █ █
    █ █                e/not/sampled/this/clap." That Uwe felt  █ █
    █ █                compelled to pay tribute to a style as   █ █
    █ █                influential on his own as electro has    █ █
    █ █                been is admirable. And that that tribute █ █
    █ █                is this enjoyable is only to be          █ █
    █ █                expected.                                █ █
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  ▓ ▒ █    greets    : sb - amrc - kw - ftd - ube - hbz         █ ▒ ▓
  █ ░ ▓                iMPG - HiT - dps - rac                   ▓ ░ █
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    █ █ 01.greetings from planet k                 [05:18]      █ █
    █ █ 02.tag layer                               [06:39]      █ █
    █ █ 03.arythmattack                            [10:57]      █ █
    █ █ 04.inflatable rasta wig                    [12:02]      █ █
    █ █ 05.urbanative                              [05:04]      █ █
    █ █ 06.cruel channel                           [10:00]      █ █
    █ █ 07.e stands for electro                    [10:00]      █ █
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