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the whole "just a dude playing playing a synth through a reverb pedal" thing is just such a shallow way of thinking about ambient, and music in general. like, next you're gonna tell me that "acid tracks" is just a drum machine and a bit of 303. and that world of echo is just some dude singing...

"Anyone know any ambient cunts that aren't just a synth pad and a bit of reverb?" nope. none. you'd probably be best off sticking with whatever boring variant on dubstep is currently flavour of the month

yeah i've got that fennesz tape. it's not an album as such, just a kind of collage of samples he used in his early music. in fact, all of his stuff up until map ref was made on either an ensoniq eps16 or an asr10 both samplers were the first to implement loop-point modulation, or "transwaves"...

i think his main setup is a juno 60 and msq100 sequencer, mixed down to a daw. apparently he also uses an electribe so maybe that's where you're hearing the digital sounds so psyched to hear the new album

didn't philip sherburne just write a history of glitch puff piece for some mp3 website somewhere? i smell revival... ;)

the one ensoniq i'm really lusting after is the eps-16 sampler - pretty much responsible for 90s glitch (think early authecre, fennesz ca instrument/hotel paral.el, loop finding jazz records etcetc) AND the early rza sound. but those ensoniq reliability issues put me off somewhat

esq-1 is great, but what is it with ensoniq gear? so unreliable my favourite synth atm is yamaha tg-33. such a strange machine

actually, the first oval album, wohntohn, is fantastic. not nearly as much vocals as reviews would lead you to believe, and they're hardly intrusive. they remind me of holger hiller it has an early version of "do while"

yeah there's this really obscure music genre called chicago house, you might've heard of it

this is so sad. one of the reasons plastic people is preferable to most other clubs in the area is that it's not the kind of place full of drugs and "crime"

and anyway, the 90s revival has been well underway in european house music since at least late 2006

i think glitch reached too far into the last decade for it to be revived this early. alot of rnb and hip hop, and of course plenty of house and techno, adopted the micro-detail approach to production that labels like mille plateaux and mego had already blueprinted in the 90s remember that there...

nintendo enhanced my imagination actually.

weak.

SEVERED HEADS!!! in particular, "dead eyes open" (think dj rolando's "jaguar" with trippy b-movie voice samples and dial-up modem blips and a clanky drawn out industro-funk outro that snakes and twists like that escher drawing of a stairwell) and "we have come to bless this house"; absolutely...

not strictly disco, but you might want to check out sandi & the sunsetz - immigrants, from 1981, another ymo endorsed record (including a couple of sylvian penned tunes, think he does backing vox and plays synth on a couple of tunes as well). i get the impression that with alot of this stuff...

dont you mean rap music and bashment

why do all you blog heads rep east so hard but never south ends? always banging on about fassiole like nasty and rolldeep and your beloved ruff skwad but never check for real mans like so what or foreign format or southside soldiers or naa or grimey soldiers or full mack crew, obviously youre...