Ø - Oleva
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nochexxx
harco pronting
i've been meaning to buy this for sometime now and the idea of mika doing a cover of set the controls is right up my street. sick!
the clips sound right on form. the problem i'm having is i already own such a large chunk of this stuff that i find it hard to warrant buying more such horse meat. silly i know.
the clips sound right on form. the problem i'm having is i already own such a large chunk of this stuff that i find it hard to warrant buying more such horse meat. silly i know.
psherburne
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Phinnweb says it's pronounced "Ohm".... news to me. 
Also, I find Oleva to be Vainio's greatest departure so far, so even if you own a huge chunk of this stuff, this one's definitely worth getting....
Also, I find Oleva to be Vainio's greatest departure so far, so even if you own a huge chunk of this stuff, this one's definitely worth getting....
Phinnweb says it's pronounced "Ohm".... news to me.
Also, I find Oleva to be Vainio's greatest departure so far
it's really good, perhaps moving in a more accessible direction, with all ideas clearly articulated as ever... but the "greatest so far"? i dunno about THAT...
hamarplazt
100% No Soul Guaranteed
Or rather the empty set. Which is a great name for something so minimal and old school science-obsessed, I think.
Eventually, Ø is also a danish letter, pronounced like the german ö, as well as a danish one-letter word meaning "island".
I read "greatest departure" as "biggest departure", not "best departure".
a few songs are technoey, but not straight 4/4 like some old trax. the ambient ones are fucking gorgeous.
on some of the older albums there are noodly places, none on this.
if so, a departure from what? Ø discography? (i think not) pan sonic discography? (hardly)
psherburne
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jesus, zhao, calm down. i'm open to you disagreeing. to me, yeah, it sounded quite different, structurally (if not sonically) from almost all the earlier Ø work, and certainly from pan sonic. but hey, it's also not like i've heard plenty of those releases in quite a while, so i might be off base. what seemed new to me was this long, structural unwinding, where he introduces one idea, then moves laterally to another, and finally finishes up with a new cluster of sounds that hadn't appeared before.
sorry if i sounded "not calm"? not sure how my comments appeared that way though..
i'll have another listen with structural evolution in mind.
psherburne
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sorry zhao, the "i think not" and "hardly" sounded snippy to me, but i was probably feeling sensitive last night after my neighbor reamed me out for DJing admittedly rather loud last night.
let's talk about the last pan sonic album. how do people feel about it? about the presence of cello?
i think it's a very successful use of strings in the context. that first cut is very nice... if a bit too restrained. but for me a bit too much sound scape noise in the middle of the album. i checked out that girls solo cello album though and really love it. like acoustic Gas.
haven't run into Mika lately... i'm not going to the right parties.
i think it's a very successful use of strings in the context. that first cut is very nice... if a bit too restrained. but for me a bit too much sound scape noise in the middle of the album. i checked out that girls solo cello album though and really love it. like acoustic Gas.
haven't run into Mika lately... i'm not going to the right parties.
nochexxx
harco pronting
i have to admit i wasn't feeling the cello at all and for me it ruined the album. i thought the last thing pan sonic needed to do was become even more serious and austere. I would have liked for them to have done something super-rediculous, perhaps work with kool keith or at least try and work with somebody who could inject something vastly different in feel. if only hasil adkins would come back from the dead and do vocals for them.
i was very glad to see ilpo sporting a mullet during there last uk gig.
Leo
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ha...that's not as far out as it might seem (except, of course, for the haz being dead and all...): i once went to a mika vaino dj set and the ONLY thing he played was old rockabilly singles. it totally bummed out the artsy hipsters.
i can see where you coming from, but do you think the cello made it "more serious"??? i just liked the sound, the texture of the strings fit well with the analog static.
they've done stuff with that Jimmy Tenor dood, who is PRITAY silly if you ask me...
and the VVV stuff with the junkie from NYC is, if still very "serious", a bit of a "pop noir" version of their music.
i really liked this album...
they've done stuff with that Jimmy Tenor dood, who is PRITAY silly if you ask me...
and the VVV stuff with the junkie from NYC is, if still very "serious", a bit of a "pop noir" version of their music.
i really liked this album...