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Random Reviews by mrs. johnson 08/12/2003, 2:55pm PDT
Kid Koala - Some of My Best Friends are DJs - Weighing in at roughly 32 minutes, this latest album from the Chinese-Canadian is probably his best to date. Fabulous turntabalism with a sense of humor and just downright fun to listen to. Recommended for the depressed.

Soul Position - Unlimited EP - Soul Position is RJD2 & Blueprint. Of course, you should recognize RJD2 from his album "Deadringer" (Which is incredibly good mostly instrumental hip-hop.) Blue Print is the rapper who helped him out on some of the tracks fromt hat album. Regardless, they decided to start up a full time rap outfit, and this is the first effort. Now, I don't listen to very much non-instrumental hip-hop (Black Eyed Peas, Blackalicious, etc), but after a few listens of Soul Position, I was mumbling the words embarrassingly along. RJD2 lays down expert productions and Blue Print's clear voice blasts out sometimes-clever, sometimes-catchy rhymes, that don't have to do (too much) with fucking, gunning and money. Give it a try.

Brian Eno and Michael Brook - Hybrid - Out of the insanely large Brian Eno discography, this may be my favorite album. Subtle and hypnotic tribal drumming lives right below melodies that sound old. This album may have claim to fame as the only one I have ever had success deliberately falling asleep to. Very good at creating moods for any time you feel like assigning significance to your current environment and/or experience.

Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya - Ambient? I don't know really. Jon Hassell is a trumpeter, but if I didn't tell you, you might have had a difficult time figuring out what that noise was on every track. It is a treated trumpeter. Played and then twisted in a breathy lick from a sonic dragon (sorry, couldn't resist). Also containing tribal drumming, but this time flowing instead of subtle, but still hypnotic. It is difficult to listen to this without devoting a lot of your attention because the sound of the trumpet is so strange and manages to fills the room, grabbing your attention. Wonderful, but often times perplexing.

Ryoji Ikeda - Op. - Opus, to be more accurate. Thus far Ryoji Ikeda has produced a number of albums that are just downright ridiculous. I pride myself on being open and welcome to all sorts of music, but an album like "Time/Space", which AMG describes as: "Time" is a collage of jet engines, morse code patterns and almost painfully high frequencies, while "Space" is reminiscent of Ikeda's : pure, static sine waves combined slowly and to odd effect. "Now I gave that a shot, and let me tell you the "almost" right before painfully shouldn't be there. This isn't music, it is an experiment in pure sound manipulation, but should not be sold in the same area as other music. Op. on the other hand is bizarrely like nothing else on Ikeda's discography. It is an album that has absolutely no electronic instruments, just a string quartet and some other various acoustic instruments. A piece of minimalist modern composition, to be exact. Tense and effective, it is another example of why men like Morton Feldman and Philip Glass are popular. Lengthy, delicate chords are all everywhere, as the direct focus. Slow and oppressive, this album is the one to listen to when a gigantic rainstorm is bellowing outside, and for some reason you just want to open your windows.

More (techno and trance) later,
the mrs.
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Random Reviews by mrs. johnson 08/12/2003, 2:55pm PDT NEW
    What, are they making a movie out of all that? NT by Dumbass 08/12/2003, 4:07pm PDT NEW
        Misplaced. I'm having some issues at the moment. NT by mrs. johnson 08/12/2003, 4:23pm PDT NEW
            Yeah, puberty is a motherfucker. NT by Slappy 08/14/2003, 10:00pm PDT NEW
                So are you. I unsummon you. Back to the shadows. NT by mrs. johnson 08/15/2003, 2:03am PDT NEW
 
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