terre thaemlitz he gushed

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i just heard lovebomb.
its another "difficult" disc, coming complete with the usual thaemlitz/mlle pat theoretical baggage.
but track 2: "between empathy and sympathy is time (apartheid" is the most moving piece of "vocal science" (to borrow from matos) i've heard this year. it made me cry.
he takes a very militant speech by an ANC spokeperson and harmonises it to Loving you by Minnie Riperton. The Riperton tune isn't actually there, its just the spokespersons sentences/phrases are made to fit the basic shape of that song. to make an obvious comparison, it sounds like Robert Ashley, or Laurie Anderson.
the rest of the disc (apart from the microhouse trck at the end) is unlistenable.
o fck. i just had to gush about that.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i've got a terre thaemlitz remix of nina simone's "see line woman" and it's great... it's seamless... it sounds as if it was unmanipulated...
m.

― msp, Wednesday, 23 April 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

thaemlitz s/d maybe?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I completley agree that this is not only by far the best thing on this disc (which I also am having a hard time getting into) but one of the most incredible tracks I've heard in a long time.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I think this is the first time I've seen Thaemlitz talk on ILM...

― hstencil, Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never heard of this person
could someone give a brief description?

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.comatonse.com/thaemlitz/profile.html

sorry for the lazy link, but it says it so much better than i can atm.

― disco stu (disco stu), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I've exchanged e-mails with Terre a few times, he was always a friendly soul. I need that disc of Numan reworkings.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i have the kraftwerk one, it's quite good. didn't even know there was a numan reworking. I met him after a show once and he was very nice and affable then, too, just after playing some of the most intense and political laptop electronics these ears have ever heard.

― disco stu (disco stu), Thursday, 24 April 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

that sums it up nicely
cheers,disco stu

― robin (robin), Thursday, 24 April 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Any opinions on his Rubato series of piano cover albums?

― Telephone thing, Saturday, 15 September 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

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