>From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>
>Looking to expand my CD collection in 2 areas:
>
>1) Need some more (sigh) techno/dance/less-than-26-years-old music. I have
>some Orbital, Chemical Bros, M.B.F. but those are so like "yesterday"!
>Suggestions?
>
>2) Need music to MOTM by (ie as I design/debug). Here are my currents faves:
>
>a) R. Wakeman: 6 Wives of Henry the Eighth (uplifting & depressing, since RW
>was 19yrs old when he did this!)
>b) Enya- Shepard Moons
>c) any and all Pat Metheny (new CD w/Jim Hall is wonderful)
>d) Modern Jazz Quartet - Last Concert (defines "tight playing" forever. Not
>possible to play together any better.)
>e) Any Robert Rich
>f) any Steve Roach
>
>As you may tell, like softer, "ambient" sort of stuff, but not "Starbuck
>Coffee" junk (Indian flutes, rainforest, whales)
>
>Paul S.
>
A couple things I've been listening to a lot lately you might enjoy:
Boards of Canada: Music has the Right to Children. Very nice stuff, reminds
me of Eno's Another Green World in places. There are some analog textures
on this CD that really leave me scratching my head as to how they did them.
I suspect there are some modulars involved
Tortoise: TNT. This is their latest album though it's about a year and a
half old now. The first of their records I've really liked, extremely
well-recorded, some very cool textures and processing, and nice
compositions. One tune sounds very much like it could have been written by
Metheny, other influences I hear on this disc are Steve Reich, Ennio
Morricone, and african electric guitar bands like Sunny ade's and Thomas
Mapfumo.
And if you can wait a few months, the new CD by my band Minus will have
some prominently-featured MOTM! In the mixing stage now...
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Dave Trenkel :
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"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
-Sun Ra
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