Re: [microsound] snd + shirt trax

[Sean Cooper <scooper@xxxxxxxx>]

>the correct title is _makesnd cassette_.  it's essentially mellow
>asynchronous dubby glitches.  they also have three 12" eps available,
>two on their own label (snd) & a newer one (released post-_cassette_) on
>city centre offices made of a long track & a bunch of locked grooves.

where is the cco release on the stylistic map? is it in the vein of the
full-length (ie., glitch-house)?
or is it less rhythmically conservative? i want desperately to like snd,
but i can't get past its dance music moorings.

>shirt trax's _good news about space_ (on touch sublabel or) is fairly
>different from snd in execution: rawer (but lovely) bleeps & noises
>organized unidimentionally in quite an abstract fashion...
>
>also recommendable are shirt trax's _chewables_ on falsch: excellent
>short studies in the post-digital area which we all seem to be into.  :)

fwiw, i found the fals.ch release to be far more effective and enjoyable
than _good news about space_, which seemed too long and without focus.

sc