Re: [microsound] potuznik + uli troyer + cex

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:04 PM 12/1/00 -0500, david turgeon wrote:
> 1)  i'm decidedly late on this, but: amazing _concorde+_ cd by gerhard
> potuznik & ramon bauer (on cheap records, also featuring hecker & pita,
> amongst others, a gorgeous cover art by chicks on speed & tina frank).

This one jumped immediately out of the pile as a classic:  it takes an 
allstar lineup from Vienna, mixes up styles sadly all too often excluded 
from each other's realms, and ties the whole together with a bizarre and 
engaging narrative, as if Lars Von Trier's "Zentropa" had been mated with 
This Mortal Coil in the heat of a high-RPM harddrive.  For me what raises 
this album above the fray is that it IS an album - with a linear flow from 
start to finish and the power to remove the listener into its own weird 
world for a bit more than an hour - rather than merely a collection of nice 
tracks.  For those not yet acquainted with this sonic treasure, make sure 
to buy the CD version, as the vinyl as I understand it only includes the 
musical tracks and omits the unifying spoken interstitials.

np - Hausmeister (more yumminess from Karaoke Kalk)

joshua maremont / thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
boxman studies label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/