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fremont received his active mixcubes today, so the first thing that was heard was:
public enemy fear of a black planet - surprisingly, alot of the kick came thru on his system. i was surprised by how tight the sound was. overheard some backing vox due to the horrortones' pronounced midrange. like feldstein, fremont can rarely take a whole record, so it was only two or three cuts off this one and the next.
cocteau twins garlands - this had to be a remaster; it sounded far less 80s than i remembered. i really need to pick up the record. again, cool tightness on the drum machine kik. i need to get on making some samples - and an akai. it also reminded me that i need to send out skylar's 606 when i get some money. again, only selected tracks.
brian eno (& laraaji) ambient 3 - first real record of the day. file under new age/world. the first half of the record is very reminiscent of persian zither music. eno's processing seems relegated to mostly AMS delays and slight ambient synth pads. some cool overtones are emitted - like sonic youth - only way better; no shitty vocals and much more ambient drone. the latter half of the record is definitely more eno - far more ambient with possible lex 224 or EMT 250 treatments. glad i found the record.
stp purple - first impression was that the heavy guitars were dark and muddy. definitely more a neve album than core's plasticky [sic] sound. definitely dug the brighter, km86ed solo and licks overdubs over the wall of sound guitars. km86 is likely to help with the definition of those jazz chords they blow throughout the record. also, gated d112 inside kik thing throughout. the brendan o' brien drum room thing only shows up on two cuts, but something is better than nothing. reminds me of a more stock and poppy fridmann room thing. still, i'll take what i can get. alot of dry sm7 vox. u47 > la-2a on the whispery verse of "big empty" - the best vox sound on the record to me. i was suprised by the jane's influence on this record; alot of the faster tracks are super jane's-y. P.S. bierdeman hated the record.
up on deck, marion and arcade fire.
public enemy fear of a black planet - surprisingly, alot of the kick came thru on his system. i was surprised by how tight the sound was. overheard some backing vox due to the horrortones' pronounced midrange. like feldstein, fremont can rarely take a whole record, so it was only two or three cuts off this one and the next.
cocteau twins garlands - this had to be a remaster; it sounded far less 80s than i remembered. i really need to pick up the record. again, cool tightness on the drum machine kik. i need to get on making some samples - and an akai. it also reminded me that i need to send out skylar's 606 when i get some money. again, only selected tracks.
brian eno (& laraaji) ambient 3 - first real record of the day. file under new age/world. the first half of the record is very reminiscent of persian zither music. eno's processing seems relegated to mostly AMS delays and slight ambient synth pads. some cool overtones are emitted - like sonic youth - only way better; no shitty vocals and much more ambient drone. the latter half of the record is definitely more eno - far more ambient with possible lex 224 or EMT 250 treatments. glad i found the record.
stp purple - first impression was that the heavy guitars were dark and muddy. definitely more a neve album than core's plasticky [sic] sound. definitely dug the brighter, km86ed solo and licks overdubs over the wall of sound guitars. km86 is likely to help with the definition of those jazz chords they blow throughout the record. also, gated d112 inside kik thing throughout. the brendan o' brien drum room thing only shows up on two cuts, but something is better than nothing. reminds me of a more stock and poppy fridmann room thing. still, i'll take what i can get. alot of dry sm7 vox. u47 > la-2a on the whispery verse of "big empty" - the best vox sound on the record to me. i was suprised by the jane's influence on this record; alot of the faster tracks are super jane's-y. P.S. bierdeman hated the record.
up on deck, marion and arcade fire.