Re: [microsound] tortoise/djed

[david turgeon <david.t@xxxxxxxx>]

> I just wanted to add one track to this thread, 'djed' from tortoise's second
> album 'millions now living...'
> about half way through this 20 minute track the composition breaks down to
> this mutating cd sound, glitch- but is worked into this great abstract beat.

i read in an old issue of raygun (i think) that the tape glitch halfway
was actually purely accidental but that they liked the sound so much
that they used it to create a segue to the next movement.

one of the few things to like about tortoise, i suppose...

~ david

np: zappa/mothers: _we're only in it for the money_
concentration moon...  wish i was back in the alley...
with all of my friends still running free, hair growing out every hole
in me...