Re: [microsound] Shirt Trax/SND

[david turgeon <david.t@xxxxxxxx>]

> I have to admit when I first heard the album, I was a bit underwhelmed.
> Where did you find the info on that release? It would have helped me to
> understand their creative approach better after my initial reaction,
> although I did suspect that much of the cd was recorded as live improv. I
> really like their track on the Ash comp, Decay and  I also enjoy the
> mp3's of Chewables on Falsch. I find the SND release, Makesnd to be sort
> of theraputic. I put it on in the background and it sets a nice
> psychological tone.

i believe i read about _good news about space_ (not "from" space as my
last post said) either on this list or the idm list.  i was enjoying the
album before i knew about the process, though; i don't know what
appealed to me about it, i think i liked the liveliness of the sounds &
the general "organic" quality of it.  actually someone had mentioned
florian hecker in relation to shirt trax; if you enjoyed hecker's _[ot]
xackpy breakpoint_ cdr (also on or, & also a vastly underrated album,
_very_ different from his mego output) then you'll probably be into
shirt trax...  on the whole though, both are very peculiar in their own
right & maybe that's why i like them after all.

& speaking of peculiar & once again fairly o/t...   the captain
beefheart & the magic band anthology _the dust blows forward_ (rhino). 
words can't begin to describe how wonderful it is.  so much explosive
imagination contained in just 2 cds, you'd think the cover is about to
blow up...

~ david