From david turgeon Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 15:53
Greg Clow wrote: > Just had to share this laff-riot Pole review that appears in this week's > Now Magazine (Toronto's version of The Village Voice, basically). The guy > who wrote it - Tim Perlich - is basically a jaded hack (like most > professional rock-crits, I guess), so this is exactly the sort of thing > I'd expect him to write: well, pole's got cool sounds going, but i have to agree that like most of berlin techno, he is immensely boring. observe the difference: chain reaction record -> thump tss thump tss thump tss thump tss thump tss thump tss thump tss weeeeaaaaoooowwwwwww thump tss thump tss thump tss thump tss pole record -> pop click pop click pop click pop click pop click pop click pop click pop click pop click weeeeaaaaoooowwwwwww pop click pop click pop click pop click pop click & as a means of comparison: autechre record -> crunch clack bang blip kank crunch-a-ching bang klank crunch blip klang tcheecka boom ding bump crunch crunch bloop blip funkstörung record -> crunch clack bang blip kank crunch-a-ching bang klank crunch blip klang tcheecka boom ding bump crunch crunch bloop blip heh heh. -- david turgeon at http://www.notype.com