From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V6 #240 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, August 15 2003 Volume 06 : Number 240 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Re: 80's influenced syntiana ["Jason Rogers" ] Re: [idealcopy] Interpol [Andrew Walkingshaw ] [idealcopy] from uzine......... [PaulRabjohn@aol.com] Re: [idealcopy] from uzine......... [MarkBursa@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:14:55 +0000 From: "Jason Rogers" Subject: [idealcopy] Re: 80's influenced syntiana I bought Ladytron's Light And Magic a few months ago and think that it's amazing. "Evil" and "Seventeen" are both great tracks. I am considering buying the first Ladytron album at some point in the future. If you like Ladytron, then you may like Soviet. http://www.sovietmusic.net/ Soviet has the '80's synth sound spot-on and adds a bit to it. I've been hearing them a lot on college radio down here, but have yet to buy the album. They're playing here in Atlanta in a few weeks and, if I check them out, I'll buy the album at the show. Right now, I'm putting some $$ aside for October. The Cure B-sides box set is supposed to be released on October 21 by Polydor Records. In addition, Echo And The Bunnymen are reissuing remastered editions of their first five albums in October. Since EATB's debut album, Crocodiles, is in my top five all-time favorite albums, it will do me well to have the reissue; I'll go ahead and buy all five reissues if the price is right. Jason Now Playing - Flesh For Lulu - "Sleeping Dogs" >Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:28:39 +0100 >From: Andrew Walkingshaw >Subject: 80's influenced synthiana (was Re: [idealcopy] Re: Human League >setlist from St. Louis) > >I suspect most of you Human League fans would thoroughly enjoy the >Ladytron album from this year, "Light and Magic". It's 3UKP in Fopp >at the moment, so hardly an enormous risk to give it a go. > >(IMO it's a pretty good pop album; I like it anyway, and the Soulwax >remix of "Seventeen" is inspired.) > >- - Andrew > >- -- >email: andrew@lexical.org.uk >http://www.lexical.org.uk/ >Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge >http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/ >DJ, CUR1350 - http://www.cur1350.co.uk/ blog: >http://www.lexical.org.uk/blog/ _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 04:31:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Fergus Kelly Subject: [idealcopy] Interpol What's the deal with this Interpol lot ? They any use ? I only ask as they're playing Dublin on the 26th. Fergus Faire is foule and foule is faire Hover through the fogge and filthy ayre __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:34:48 +0100 From: Andrew Walkingshaw Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Interpol On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:31:17AM -0700, Fergus Kelly wrote: > What's the deal with this Interpol lot ? They any use > ? I only ask as they're playing Dublin on the 26th. They're alright; prone to the occasional bout of comically bad lyrics on B-sides, which caused me to dismiss them prematurely based on the first track of theirs I heard. They clearly want to be much more dark and mysterious than they actually are; what they actually are is a pretty good mid-80s-post-goth indie rock band. "Obstacle 1" is a damn good song, though. - - A - -- email: andrew@lexical.org.uk http://www.lexical.org.uk/ Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/ DJ, CUR1350 - http://www.cur1350.co.uk/ blog: http://www.lexical.org.uk/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:47:50 EDT From: PaulRabjohn@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] from uzine......... WIRE "Metro, Chicago, 14th September 2002" ***1/2 cd - 2003 - Pinkflag (PF6L) - 37'41" WIRE "Pf456redux" **** lp - 2003 - Pinkflag (PF-456) BC GILBERT / G LEWIS / RUSSELL MILLS "Mzui" **** cd - 2003 - Boutique / LTM (BOU-6602) - 42'00" "Metro" is the cd that you get for free if you buy "Send" (cf. U0307) via Pinkflag's Posteverything mailorder setup. A fine live performance of new "Send" and "Read & Burn" songs, but all in all for dedicated fans only. The same goes for "Redux", which brings together "Read & Burn" form in edited form, so as they all fit in on one lp. Cute but redux eh redundant, unless you're a Wire collector ... or a vinyl-only-man, of course, in which case you should urgently buy this lp, because Wire Mk. III is one of the best things yet to have happened yet to the classic singer-guitar-bass-drum setup, in this new Century of ours. * As you've gathered from earlier [uzines], Bruce Gilbert & Graham Lewis (see U0110) made a number of amazing records that were way ahead of their time in exploring sounds, rhythms, scapes, moods `nd studio technology - and pretty unique too, even to this overrecycling day: just check the two Dome cd's on Mute and their lone 4AD cd "8 Time" for proof. "Mzui" is a different matter altogether, though. It is the result of 'a recording installation project in August 1981 which, once set into operation, provided an opportunity [for the audience] to utilise and experiment with various sound sources. 'Instruments' and objects, constructed from diverse materials, were daily introduced throughout the three week period [of the expo]. A number of microphones were installed in selected areas of the gallery, their locations were designed so as to investigate and record the environment and its resonance to the manipulated, incidental and accidental sounds from without and within the gallery' [quoted from the sleeve]. As is often the case with such undertakings, all of this resulted in hours of tape, the best parts of which were then used for this record, which has become a rather uneven affair, even if it does feature some brilliant Dome moments, e.g. the last part of the first side. This first-time-ever-on-cd reissue of the original "Mzui" lp, which didn't sell well initially but has become very rare by now, features excellent liner notes by Wire biographer Kevin Eden, who elaborates on the whole project with illustrator/artist Russell Mills (who was at the time 'famous for his multi-media interpretation of Brian Eno's lyrics'). Eden also mentions the Mzui:Australia project (equally on cd, via WMO) and draws a parallel with Eno's "On Land" lp. The booklet also prints a Dome-on-cd discography and some twenty-four pictures of the original expo, some of which were taken by Angela Conway (AC Marias). Unfortunately for the die-hard fan, this cd only reissues the original lp, and none of those 'unedited fragments of sound from the exhibition' which were sold on a very limited run of C30 cassettes, nor does it feature any recordings of the "MU:ZE:UM Traces" installation (Oxford, December 1982 - January 1983). Enjoy at will... (pv) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:03:16 EDT From: MarkBursa@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] from uzine......... > >>nor does it feature any recordings of the "MU:ZE:UM Traces" installation > (Oxford, December 1982 - January 1983). << > > The soundtrack tape that was included in the MU:ZE:UM Traces 'cylinders' is > included on EGL's pre:he. > > Mark ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V6 #240 *******************************