was there a thread on that already? anyway:
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Fila Brazillia "Black Market Gardening"
Bullitnuts "Nut Roast"
the latest was once described in a russian magazine "it's like a soul of a stray dog hit by a car or music you would here in god's waiting room".
Destroy:
Fabric 18 (although not technically Pork Recordings release) wasn't particularly memorable.
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)
if you really want to get down to it:
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old codes new chaos - tribal techno with the kick drum removed, not chopped but screwed and with donald byrd-esque ejaculations spattered all over the place in a post-detroit shiny UK techno synth palette.
"humidity" / "electric hush"- possibly the worst jazz-funk album i have ever heard. the cover has a fake "japanese" "obi" with a big cartoon pig on it. the songs are unrelentingly smooth and gloopy with lots of noodly soloing. it's like the worst parts of goldie's "timeless", but with the residual jungle bits removed. OTOH i think we can all agree we were happier in 1991 and it's less embarassing than owning incognito and young disciples albums. sometimes i want to listen to this, what can i say. maybe it's a twisted joke? "electric hush" is more, uh, "electric", as in it has electro basslines and beats.
"how about some ether: collected works 93-95" - the abstract mo'wax album glenn underground and larry heard never made. has some incredible ambient techno tracks on it: "a family of moving suns", "the room is breathing", "slipping into another dimension".
"maim that tune" - the best downtempo album ever made! what i said about the first album, but with more post-kruder+dorfmeister slow-mo beats. further into space.
"mess" - like MTT but with jungle breakbeats and their first proggy experiments - sitars, 12-string guitar and so on. so much better than four tet!
personally, i would destroy everything else. everything after that was an attempt at refinement of shtick, except instead of getting refined it turned crusty and eventually toxic.
― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)
I'm geographically obliged to defend Pork. The under-ratedness of their best work balances out the over-ratedness of the going-through-the-motions stuff. The 1st two Fila Brazilia albums are massive.
― Boring Someone in Some Dark Cafe (noodle vague), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)
the great thing about "how about some ether" is that each song sounds exactly like the song title. "slipping into another dimension"? yes, you'll feel as though you were. "room is breathing"? yes, it is. "jet smooth"? yes.
i'd like to see more of this jeffmills-ian literalness from dance artists. dj krush had that quality to. "abstract loop 3"? why yes, it is. i find that comforting and reassuring, personally.
― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)
duh!
I forgot about Solid Doctor.
"when i'm dead", "ether", "ninety one campion" - all good tracks (although ether would be better in a shorter version, and campion - in a longer).
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)
I have to second (or third) "how about some ether", it's lovely. I have fond memories of the Fila Brazillia albums from the mid to late ninties but haven't listened to any of them for a long while - it's likely they haven't held up very well over time.
― Bn1 (Bn1), Saturday, 22 April 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)