clicks & cuts, lots of gratuitous namechecking

[david turgeon <david.t@xxxxxxxx>]

wow, that ultra-red tune is pretty damn good.

i'm more impressed than i thought with clicks & cuts; in fact, i'm
mostly happy with the ones i didn't know beforehand, but that's just one
man's opinion.  pole's track does rock the boat & reinhard voigt's
little rocker 'matrix' manages to be an enjoyable 3 minutes of a pretty
cool same-thing.  more beats than i expected, that's for sure.

skist's (who?) track is one of the few that break the overall mold of
bare-paced, repetitive thuds.  it's a busy percussive track which has me
happy.  vladislav delay's is more of a mess than his usual but it's also
very percussive.  stilluppsteypa's track is a funky little brain tease &
hell, it's called 'confused bear thrown into the sea' which actually
does account of the offness of the piece.  panacea's track almost sounds
like an in-joke but it's probably the closest to what i would see as
'applied clicks & cuts'; not in the context of a boundless abstract
piece but within the delimitation of a certain genre, here drum n bass. 
zammuto did that with cuts, panacea does it with clicks, to borrow this
handy terminology.

anyway, if you feel like you've been left in the dark as to what happens
in minimal techno, as i not-so-accurately call that non-genre, this is
definitely a safe buy.  even with the experimentalisms, it's a throughly
comfortable listen for girls & boys everywhere.  well, up to the
before-last track by kid 606, that is (built to drive away all unwanted
guests from your party in a matter of minutes)...  not to imply that the
final track by goem is in any way friendly, of course...

oh, & a general word of advice to those inclined to buy pop music when
it 'looks interesting': avoid broadcast.

~ david