From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #170 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, June 28 2006 Volume 09 : Number 170 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Touch 25 [Fergus Kelly ] [idealcopy] Eels ["Clements, Bruno - BUP" ] [idealcopy] OT recommended World Cup listening [Tim Subject: [idealcopy] Touch 25 Tim asked: I'm tempted by this as I like Fennesz, Phillip Jeck, Ryoji Ikeda etc but I can't work out from the rather flowery advert whether these are actual tracks or just spoken word pieces throughout?! Can you enlighten me?> ((( Meant to flag this earlier. Bruce's is the only spoken word piece, and it's excellent. It's called "Sliding Off The World". Clocking in at precisley two minutes it relates the story of a young boy terrified by the sound of a cuckoo. It's beautifully understated, with minimal electronic sound that creates a suitably unsettling atmosphere. I definitely think he should plough more out of this furrow, so to speak. The whole atmosphere is not unlike that created in "The Other Window". An accelerating sense of unease. Similarly, the track "Children", which originally appeared on a 1983 Touch compilation tape called Meridians One, before finding it's way onto The Haring (where Bruce records his parents relating unsettling stories from their childhoods). And, curiously enough, recently Bruce was thinking of doing a Haring 2... The rest of the Touch 25 CD is very good. Well worth checking out. I particularly like the Chris Watson pieces. Fergus http://www.roomtemperature.org http://www.asullenrelapse.blogspot.com http://flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:54:01 +0100 From: "Clements, Bruno - BUP" Subject: [idealcopy] Eels Anyone else from the list going to see Eels tonight at the Astoria? Bruno ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:11:00 +0100 From: Tim Subject: [idealcopy] OT recommended World Cup listening While the World Cup is on, when I'm not trying to explain to my hairdresser/taxi drivers/accountants and just about everyone else I come into contact with who doesn't know me why I couldn't give a flying toss about the darn thing (and marveling about how fucking ugly those horrible oversized sunglasses beloved of "footballers wives" are.....and how I feel British not English) I have mostly been listening to: Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh One of those records where you never whats going to happen next. Veers from expert MBV copying, to daft 70s rock boogie, to Krautrock metronomic riffage, to string-laden Brian Wilson chord changes, to Spacemen 3 trance-outs, thrash metal and back again. Needless to say I rather like it! Paik - Monster of the Absolute Sounds like a really grubby garage band trying to sort of wig out in a post-rock/Spiritualized vein (before they were shite)..and its ace. Plaid - Greedy Baby Multimedia thing, a soundtrack really...which tempers them somewhat but in a good way so as a listening experience is surprisingly epic sounding. I Citizen the Loathsome is one of those 'wow..who the f**k who is this?' tracks to play yr mates. The Longcut - A Call and Response Yr basic mid-noughties Wire/Josef K/Factory referencing jerky indie rock then they slip into big explosive guitar wig outs which you don't expect, and drum machines! hurrah! And reading...Mick Fish 'Industrial Evolution: Through the 80s with Cabaret Voltaire" - Not a rock biog at all..instead the author draws parallels his career as a lowly council officer at his local refuse tip, with the career of Cabaret Voltaire and relates his experiences of getting pissed with Richard H Kirk and Mal which tells us more about CV and all that than any "proper" biog would. And Watching 'Shadowplayers' DVD ......James Nice interviews Hooky, Chris Watson, Simon Topping, Devoto, Vini Reilly,Wilson and the unbelievably grumpy and unpleasant Section 25 (make Mark E Smith look like Cliff Richard) et all about Factory. V amusing. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #170 *******************************