Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 01:21:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Cc: John Wise <wise@netzone.com>
Subject: T130 + T128 vs. A137.
On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, John Wise wrote:
> you can blame this move on Uwe himself, and Uwe's behaviour...blame on
> GTO......
I've just given "Ambience 137" by BI-FACE a good listen. John, are
you saying that the G.T.O. tribute is intentional? Are there any other
AH/LB tracks that also seem to be influenced? Like DATACIDE's "The Ritual
Of Transparency" to early SKINNY PUPPY?
ocsid.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 03:53:17 -0800
From: Sean Cooper <scooper@best.com>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Machine Paisley - review.
here's a dumb-ass review of the new atom heart joint...as always, full
review, artwork, track listing, rating, samples, etc. are available at the
burn site: www.burnmedia.com...
--------------------------
Atom Heart.Machine Paisley
Rather Interesting
CD
The week this CD was released, the British Broadcasting Company was
gearing up for a thought-provoking symposium on recent electronica
titled "The Future Of Music," featuring such emusic luminaries as
Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), David Toop, Brian Eno, and MIT engineer
Tod Machover whose hyperinstruments are revolutionizing the way music
is played and composed. Notwithstanding the fact that the bulk of
quality, highly experimental music has for the last two decades
largely originated in the urban ghetto (a fact woefully
unacknowledged by this 100 percent white male panel), it's a pity Uwe
Schmidt never found his way onto the stage (yeah, I know... another
white male). More so than some of the participants (I shant name
names), Schmidt's Rather Interesting laboratory has churned out over
the last year-and-a-half some of the most bleeding-edge, forward-
looking experimental hybrids to grace the contemporary scene. Unlike
many of his colleagues, whose languorous approach to the analog past
and its cheesy recapitulations of self-referential tone-wankery,
Schmidt has wholly embraced and consistently pushed the capacity of
digital technologies and the possibility they've opened up for the
construction of exceedingly original, incredibly sophisticated music.
The many releases which have resulted from this ongoing project have
mapped, with an exploratory fervor, the nether regions of those
possibilities through engagements of a whole range of musical
traditions--from electro and jazz, to funk and pop, to ambient, soul,
even bossa nova--with a blatant disregard for boundary and
convention. Each release has had its own individual flavor, but the
unifying strain has been a desire to construct a new language with
which to write the increasingly schizophrenetic text of contemporary
cultural experience.
Machine Paisley," then, comes with somewhat of a surprising title,
suggesting perhaps an exploration of already well-trod territories or
at least an overreliance on some of its defining features. The cover
art doesn't help much, either, with Kezar-era kaleidoscopic amoebas
and a pair of seminude flower babes swirling beneath a blobby
typeface announcing its title. A subtext of many of Schmidt's past
projects ("Flowerhead," "Silver Sound 60") has been a certain
affectation for psychedelia, and while I'll choose here to leave the
discussions of drugs and music to the academic sluts and their
aspirations to by-lines in the lazy, cannibalistic journals of their
profession, it does at least seem fitting to enter into the humor of
Uwe's complicated aesthetic through this glowing neon lens. And, as
one would expect, the connection proves more conceptual than musical;
although a MIDI-driven sitar does show up momentarily on "Babes On
Display" and you get bongos and claves mashed in between 303s and
sampled ride cymbals, the disc is largely free of any hyperdriven
nostalgia for a mythological, lysergically-enhanced past. Instead,
Uwe expands on the bouncy, banging goof-ball clown-funk he's been
working toward since RI was established, moving even further than
past projects into that furried fray of crossover where mentions of
genre elicit only knowing smiles and pats on the head. Violins and
swing beats, laser printers and elephants, silverware and
synthesizers, operettas and a thousand more completely
unrecognizable noises--"Machine Paisley"'s got it all goin' on.
"About Pears And Apples," a robot-recitation of a free-verse ode to
Uwe's Macintosh ("Never Ever Trust A Microsoft Tool!"), even solos
with a sample of that electro-orchestral noise a booting Mac makes!
In a recent review of a belted release one of Schmidt's other
projects, The Lisa Carbon Trio (which utilized many of the same
combinatorial approaches to composition), I pondered at where Uwe was
at these days since the album was already nearly two years old.
"Machine Paisley" answers that question in a most challenging,
exhilarating way.
SC
----------------------------
thanks for your indulgence...
sc
onnow: mr. scruff : the frolic ep (part 2)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 12:40:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Atomu Iron Man
Yeah.
I agree with Todd. I've forwarded a message he sent to me last night.
So, let's start a discussion...
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:50:18 -0800
From: Todd Boozer <carterkl@ix.netcom.com>
Greetings... just wanted to see what was up in the world of Heart
fans... this list seems to be at a standstill. What the hell is up? Is
everybody burned or what?
Thought I might let you know that i found Atomu Shinzo Check out the
Bass 12" at Isolation Tank for $6.00. Might want to check and see if they
have anymore copies.
I guess you still havent gotten a turntable or even listened to all
those Heart 12" yet. Well at least you plan on it in the future which is
more than i can say for all those other fools who are "STRICTLY CD". They
dont know what they are missing. I dont think we will ever see his
backcatalog of 12"s released on disk. Although that would make a hell of a
RI release. If these people are so in to Heart you would figure that they
would care enough to bother to get the Vinyl releases. At least 30% of
Atom's material is Vinyl only! And some damn good shit to boot!!! Esp
Soundfields and the Azid Ramcrash series. Maybe i'm just wanting to bitch
here but I think I am making a valid point.
I'm outta here. Forward if you see fit. Maybe we need some debate on
this list. At least something would be said.
ReeZooB
PS: I'm really tired of hearing about how great the RI stuff is. There
are other labels and AH releases. Just picked up Second Nature on the
Sub Meta label. Beautiful Package-ing. Beats the Hell out of the Fax
version.
---------- End ----------
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 12:52:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Re: Atomu Iron Man
On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Todd Boozer informed:
> Thought I might let you know that i found Atomu Shinzo Check out the
> Bass 12" at Isolation Tank for $6.00. Might want to check and see if
> they have anymore copies.
That was you? Damn. Anyway, I called them on Friday and Neil said
that along with the first four LB cd singles they also had on sale for
$7.00 apiece, nearly everything AH/LB-related is gone. If anyone is
looking for DATACIDE "Flowerhead" or ATOM HEART "Live At Sel i/s/c", I
think they've still got copies of those.
But then again, you could always try Kenn at ARS NOVA and be given
the choice of a much MUCH better AH/LB selection...
avon.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 13:21:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Aqua Regis <dogstar@iac.net>
To: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
Cc: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, edm@netcom.com, ehill@best.com,
evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com, gd@interramp.com,
gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu, halvx2@resrocket.com,
harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net, james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu,
jwarr@dial.pipex.com, martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com,
mitch@teleport.com, mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu,
peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de, ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com,
sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se,
wally@nicar.org, will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Re: Atomu Iron Man
On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Todd Boozer wrote:
> Greetings... just wanted to see what was up in the world of Heart
> fans... this list seems to be at a standstill. What the hell is up? Is
> everybody burned or what?
no, just feeling sick and apathetic.
> I guess you still havent gotten a turntable or even listened to all
> those Heart 12" yet. Well at least you plan on it in the future which is
> more than i can say for all those other fools who are "STRICTLY CD".
some people just don't like the way vinyl sounds.
and it's hard to play a record in a car :)
and sounds even crappier on tape.
(not nec. my opinions)
even Uwe says digital is the way to go on Lassigue's Render cd.
> dont know what they are missing. I dont think we will ever see his
> backcatalog of 12"s released on disk. Although that would make a hell of
> a RI release. If these people are so in to Heart you would figure that
> they would care enough to bother to get the Vinyl releases. At least 30%
> of Atom's material is Vinyl only! And some damn good shit to boot!!!
> Esp Soundfields and the Azid Ramcrash series. Maybe i'm just wanting to
> bitch here but I think I am making a valid point.
some people don't collect things as hardcore as you do todd. which, if you
think about it, is probably a good thing for you. some people are just
getting into heart and aren't gonna run out and buy everything without
hearing it. especially if they have a limited budget. maybe we should have
a vote on the top 10 Atom Heart (and other aliases) releases for new people
who are just getting into Heart.
> PS: I'm really tired of hearing about how great the RI stuff is. There
> are other labels and AH releases. Just picked up Second Nature on
> the Sub Meta label. Beautiful Package-ing. Beats the Hell out of
> the Fax version.
i have the one on Fax. oh well... but i'm certainly not gonna buy the other
one just for the packaging. for me that would be silly. unless it was some
extra-super-duper cool packaging and maybe had an extra track or something.
anyone notice how Coil listed Atom Heart in their "thank you" section on
the Black Light District cd. that was kinda interesting...
rob
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 13:55:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Cc: Aqua Regis <dogstar@iac.net>
Subject: Coil vs. Atom Heart
On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Aqua Regis wrote:
> anyone notice how Coil listed Atom Heart in their "thank you" section on
> the Black Light District cd. that was kinda interesting...
Yeah, no kidding. In fact, I remember on the COIL list (I think) last
year I read talk of an upcoming LB or AH release which was going to feature
a COIL remix... and then a COIL release that was to feature an AH mix. Has
anyone heard anything about this?
An actual collaboration would be (even more) miiiighty mighty nice.
lioc.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
From: GD <gd@interramp.com>
To: Aqua Regis <dogstar@iac.net>
Cc: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>,
ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, edm@netcom.com, ehill@best.com,
faxlabel@sirius.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Re: Atomu Iron Man
Aqua Regis wrote:
> maybe we should have a vote on the top 10 Atom Heart (and other aliases)
> releases for new people who are just getting into Heart.
I am one person who would be quite interested in such a listing - I have
picked up 'Silver Sound 60' and 'Semiacoustic Nature' and have a comp tape
with a variety of AH stuff on it (thanks Mr. live-evil), so as a somewhat
still neophyte AH collector it would be interesting to see which releases
are more valued by this list.
GD
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:56:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: RI Cd's for trade - a list.
Hello.
Thought this might interest a few (if you haven't already seen it):
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 07:51:12 -0500 (EST)
From: globalwm@gate.net <globalwm@gate.net>
To: ambient@hyperreal.com
Subject: RI Cd's for trade - a list.
Looking for "older Fax" issues (pre mid 1994ish). Please emial me
(privately) with offers. Thanks.
RI 024 Dots
RI 025 VSVN
RI 027 Interactive Music
RI 028 "Mu"
RI 029 Semiacoustic Nature
RI 030 Atom Heart Live
RI 031 Silver Sound
RI 032 B.A.S.S.
- Anthony
globalwm@gate.net
---------- End ----------
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:22:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Real Intelligence - review.
I.
Here's yet another R.I. review which I've pulled off of the burn site
(which everyone should check out) ----> www.burnmedia.com. Anyway, I'm
going to be forwarding a couple of more AH-related reviews from there, as
well as a really really good Uwe Schmidt interview (which I've cleaned-up
and made more readlable), so keep your corneas peeled. Eye-eye-eye.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Various Artists (Sort Of).Real Intelligence
Rather Interesting
CD/2xLP
_________________________________________________________________
German multi-instrumentalist/electronic composer/graphic designer Uwe
Schmidt has spent the greater part of his life as a musician mucking
about with the various formal qualities of a wide array of electronic
compositional styles--from ambient and house, to techno and electro,
to lounge, pop, jazz, improvisation, and musique concrete. Recording
under a dizzying assortment of names--Lassigue Bendthaus, Atomu
Shinzo, Datacide, the Lisa Carbon Trio, Coeur Atomique, and his nom
de usual, Atom Heart--Schmidt was given his own private playground a
year ago when Fax label honcho Peter Kuhlman established the Rather
Interesting imprint as a vehicle for Schmidt's increasingly vital
sound experiments. The result has been an outpouring of material (at
a rate of a full-length CD per month) constituting Schmidt's most
coherent and impressive body of work to date, spanning house and
techno ("Flextone," "Interactive Music," "Dots"), experimental
ambient and electro ("Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance," "Silver Sound
60"), and various other projects ("Flowerhead," "BASS") which tend to
place genre and category somewhere on the horizon of incredibly
intricate and complex interrelations. Although the concepts he deals
with in his music are decidedly varied, much of Schmidt's work can be
tied in under the general rubric of experimental electronic music,
with, as he pointed out in a recent interview in the Vital ezine, a
mind toward pushing musical compositional strategies into the digital
age: "The '70s and '80s were analog," Schmidt commented, "the '90s
are digital," and one can expect that the conceptual and technical
tools made available by the shift in medium and environment will
involve (much like jungle or experimental techno) a parallel shift in
aesthetics.
One of those shifts has, of course, been the turn toward a
characterization of music as "armchair," or in the case of the
London-based Warp label and the British music press, "intelligent"
(intelligent techno, intelligent jungle, etc.), or, more interested
in pleasing the individual listener than the DJ or dancefloor. Names
such as Autechre, Black Dog, Aphex Twin, B12, Ken Ishii, David
Morley, Stasis, As One, and others have most often been associated
with this "intellectual" turn, and the word itself has inspired much
criticism for its ethnocentric and sometimes racist connotations (if
Photek is intelligent jungle does that make Dillinja and Andy C
"stupid" jungle, etc.). Whatever your opinion on the semantics of it
all, what is clear is that the tendency _has_ been toward listening
and away from dancing; the complexification of rhythms and melodies,
the use of increasingly dissonant and disruptive noises, effects,
distortion, etc., and a general concern with internal compositional
coherence over dancefloor-ready generics. But while the shift has
proven important, in all but a few cases, the degree to which the
call for a new experimentalism has been heeded under the banner of,
say, intelligent or experimental electronic music has been limited to
a few key players, while the rest of techno's overhyped rising stars
(I won't name names here) rake in props from a decidedly un-
intelligent (or at least, largely ignorant) listening public. The
result being that the true innovators--the composers and musicians
who can truly be said to be pushing the face of electronic music into
new and conceptually and/or aesthetically interesting areas--have
been either ignored or relegated to the lesser-known margins of the
contemporary scene--people like Ishii, Terre Thaemlitz, James
Bernard, and (you saw where I was going with this...) Schmidt, all
of whom represent profoundly individual and distinctive voices in an
increasingly populated sea of mediocrity.
"Real Intelligence," a compilation of music drawn mostly from Rather
Interesting's first year in business (with a pair of previously
unavailable bonus tracks on the CD and a third, "Housing," added on
the vinyl release) is an essential introductory guide to this
exciting and undervalued contemporary composer. Featuring some of
the finest tracks from Schmidt's first nine full-length RI releases
(expertly selected by AH afic. Charles Uzzell-Edwards), many of Atom
Heart's conceptual points of interest find their way onto the
compilation in one form or another. Mostly consisting of Schmidt's
solo work (with the exception of the "Masters Of Psychedelic
Ambiance" and "Flowerhead" tracks, both of which were in
collaboration with Tetsu Inoue), the album is also a compact if
brief plotting of Atom Heart's own evolution away from more
recognizable and categorizable modes of composition (the earlier
"Flextone" and "Dots" tracks versus the later "BASS" and "Silver
Sound" material, as well as the CD bonus tracks) and toward a
hybridized, deconstructive compositional approach that serves to
expose the variagably constructed lines and barriers that have
historically separated genres of electronic music from one another.
As usual the cover art is crucial, with its design similarity to
Warp's second "(Artificial Intelligence)" compilation serving as a
point of both reference and contrast to Schmidt's own work, which in
many respects is miles ahead of the former in innovation and breadth.
What the future holds for Rather Interesting is, of course, anyone's
guess (including, one would expect, Schmidt's own) but if one thing
seems sure it's that it will continue to be precisely that.
SC
Rating: 8.8
_________________________________________________________________
CD1. Flextone.Alaska (5.55)
CD2. Dots.Seaweed (10:02)
CD3. VSVN.VSVN #3 (6.39)
CD4. Datacide.Flowerhead (9.33)
CD5. Interactive Music.My Life As A Zip File (8.22)
CD6. Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance.Rather Sleep Than Dance (5.04)
CD7. Semiacoustic Nature.Staci (5.56)
CD8. Silver Sound.Congo (Featuring Lisa Carbon) (6.06)
CD9. BASS.K-Jam (6.10)
CD10. Real Intelligence.Eigen Value (5.55)
CD11. Real Intelligence.Clear File (6.48)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:38:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Re: Atomu Iron Man
On my sister's 24th birthday, GD wrote:
> as a somewhat still neophyte AH collector it would be interesting to see
> which releases are more valued by this list.
Well, I don't have everything (yet) and I still haven't listened to
any of the 24 slabs of vinyl-only releases I have (no turntable), but from
what I do have in my collection I'd have to say that the following are my
favorites... in no particular order of course:
"Semiacoustic Nature" - SEMIACOUSTIC NATURE
"Render" - LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS
"60" - SILVER SOUND
"Polyester" - LISA CARBON TRIO
"Act" - ATOMU' SHINZO
"Plane" - +N
"Very Synthetic Virtual Noise" - VSVN
"Halograms" - THE BITNIKS
"Mu" - MASTERS OF PSYCHEDELIC AMBIANCE
"Flextone" - FLEXTONE
...although, I would have to say that both "Render" and "Polyester"
are my absolute favorites. Anyone else?
etyhpoen.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:51:17 -0500
From: Aran M. Parillo <aran@MIT.EDU>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Re: Real Intelligence - review.
> Various Artists (Sort Of).Real Intelligence
> Rather Interesting
> 2xLP
my 2x12" copy is for sale or trade, it's been played only a handful of
times since I have most of the material already on CD.
TRADE? I'm interested in getting 1 of the new (I mean this week) AH CD's.
SALE? Price negotiable (but always fair).
anyone?
tp
aran@mit.edu po box 581 cambridge,ma 02142 USA
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:58:55 -0500
From: WILL-E <will@panix.com>
To: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
Cc: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
wise@netzone.com
Subject: Dandy Jack & Machine Paisley
hello Atom Heart fans
I just added the artwork for _Dandy Jack and the Cosmic Trousers_ and
_Machine Paisley_ to the Rather Interesting discography. The press release
was already there but I just received the CDs yesterday so I finally
scanned them in.
http://www.hyperreal.com/music/labels/rather_interesting/
as usual, click on the image to get another piece of artwork from the CD.
Dandy Jack is really great! This is the best I've ever heard from him.
Machine Paisley is quite funky and all over the place, Atom Heart is as
wacky and inventive as usual. A good sense of humor helps :)
Our ISDN line at home is finally working properly which means I can send
and receive faxes again... which means I'll be in touch with Uwe real soon
for an updated discography and I'll finally replace the missing text for
MPA-MU.
So when are we moving to nicar.org? I'm looking forward to it.
___
/ / / / / / _ __/ will@panix.com
(_/__/ / (__ (__ ___/ http://www.hyperreal.com/~will/
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 01:09:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: FAX stuff I got....
Hiya.
This is the AH-related portion of a (much) larger FS list that was
posted yesterday evening on the Ambient list:
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 21:15:42 -0800
From: William K. O'Brien <aguanaut@ix.netcom.com>
Hey there everyone,
As a service to those who may not have some of these, I was fortunate to
stumble upon the following cds (with the help of my sister's husband) and
he/I are willing to let most of them go. Please email me privately.
+N "plane"
Aerial Service Area I
see ya, --Bill
---------- End ----------
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:49:26 -0600
From: Mark Coleman <mcoleman@wsnet.com>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, alaric@io.com,
aran@mit.edu, chillspc@cadvision.com, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>,
faxlabel@sirius.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, wally@nicar.org, will@panix.com,
wise@netzone.com
Subject: Second Nature
After being the proud owner of three Lassigue Bendthaus (the Atom Heart
moniker that is the most fun to say in a faux-German Sprokets-like accent),
I have gotten my first Atom Heart disc. But I hedged. I got a
collaboration.
I am very familiar with Laswell, but Tetsue and the Atom Heart material
away from the Second Nature CD (did I mention that was the collaboration I
got?) is as yet unfamiliar to me. Can anyone mention any guideposts from
this record, i.e. Atom Heart record XXXX sounds at times like the section
at the beginning/middle/end of track x on Second Nature. I know this is
generalizing but I want to get more AH and would like some sort of guide.
Thanx
Mark
__________________
"I'm sticking pins and needles in the stinking rotten flesh-like substitute
pieces of half cooked meat that are WALKING ON THIS EARTH."--N.O.
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:12:35 -0500
From: WILL-E <will@panix.com>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
wise@netzone.com
Subject: more updates
hello, as promised I faxed Uwe today and he faxed me right back.
I finally have the release sheet for MPA-MU on Rather Interesting which is
now on the RI site. He also gave me the updated Atom Heart/Lassigue
Bendthaus discography but it's not any different from what I have up
already.
Uwe asked me to share some news:
the next RI release is called Brown which should be out in about a month.
Tetsu is going over there in a couple of weeks to finish the collaboration
they started with Haruomi Hosono in Tokyo. They're also going to do
another Datacide CD for RI while he's there.
In June, Victor Sol is coming over from Barcelona to work on a new +N CD
which might end up on RI too. In August Victor Sol is moving to New York
City.
I asked him about the Hypnotism CDs since I'm having such a hard time
finding any and he said he didn't talk to those guys much and won't be
working with those guys anymore on any future projects (graphics/music,
etc.). Not sure what that's all about... and I'm still looking for Bitniks
and Almost Digital! :)
on now: Lisa Carbon Trio - Polyester
___
/ / / / / / _ __/ will@panix.com
(_/__/ / (__ (__ ___/ http://www.hyperreal.com/~will/
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:17:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@IX.NETCOM.COM,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@IX.NETCOM.COM, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Second Nature - (mini)-review
How.
I got this off of the ambient list this evening. I've edited out all
of the non-AH stuff and left in only the (relevant) very brief mini-review
of the SECOND NATURE album. Hope this onslaught of reviews helps get some
of you industro LB-lubbers into Uwe's other stuff (speaking of... good for
you Mark!). Now everyone go out and buy "Polyester".
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:14:37 +1100
From: keens@pitvax.its.rmit.edu.au (Jeremy Keens)
Subject: WARNING: fax reviews (long) {from australia!!!)
To: ambient@hyperreal.com
the following are some fax reviews i have done for a local magazine
(ambience), in a short column called the faxophile. i am posting them here
because i thought they would be useful in the fax pages, and will-e tells
me he points directly to the digest, so YOU have to see them first.
apologies to anyone offended, but i have used the fax reviews and found
them useful, so others may so find these.
note they are definitely mini-reviews, due to space restraints.
all opinions are my own, humbly held, and may even be reconsidered over
time.
Second Nature
Bill Laswell, Atom Heart, Tetsuo Innoue
This is a typical FAX beatless ambient disk [note: beatless here means
relatively few - as pinted out by will-e, there are beats in this.
beatless compared to limelight fer instance]. The four tracks combine
various sounds, natural and synthetic, in a minimal structure. While mainly
tranquil, at times Bill Laswell's bass thunders through, or harsh,
aggressive sounds enter for short periods. If played softly, this disk can
disappear into the background, but more volume reveals interesting nuances.
---------- End ----------
Oh, and the automated list will be up soon... I'm still floundering
around (with immense help from Wally and Jen - thank god) trying to set it
up and (re)-write the intro to the list. It will, it will... I swear man!
gnirednuolf.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:09:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: MACOS
Sean.
Man, you posted this to the wrong list... ;)
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:28:47 -0700
From: Sean Cooper <scooper@best.com>
To: ambient@hyperreal.com
Subject: MACOS
sorry if this is seen as off-topic, but does anybody have any information
about the anit-copyright organization MACOS and, specifically, atom heart's
participation in the project? did he start it? what are the bylaws of the
organization? are all of his non-RI recordings copyright-free? etc.
a website address would be most appreciated...
sc
p.s. sorry for the cross-post...
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 02:15:08 -0500
From: Hal Vx2 <halvx2@resrocket.com>
To: scooper@best.com
Cc: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, faxlabel@sirius.com, gd@interramp.com,
gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu, harry@sn.no,
hb@bitstream.net, james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com, evil@digital.net,
macos-list@resrocket.com
Subject: Re: MACOS
I am posting this to the MACOS mailing list and the Atom Heart list to fill
ppl in if they don't already know about MACOS and some of the history.
Sorry about the cross posting. Anyways, you're in luck, you found the right
contact.
MACOS is the brainchild of Lars Muller of +N. Uwe Schmidt (Atom Heart/
Lassigue Benthaus/etc. etc) helped Lars found the organization in 1994. I
joined soon after and started the web site/mailing list/ftp site for MACOS
and helped conceptually designing the organization and it's function.
Which has now grown to over 100 members in a little over a year.
We designed MACOS to be accommendating to it's members so it's really about
a group of musicians to use the idea for what they want it to do. MACOS is
not about following regulations and rules but more about binding a group of
similiar minded musicians regarding sampling. Basically, it works by the
usage of the MACOS logos on the participating musician's product. This
flags the product as 'sample friendly'. It's up to the musician to place
any special requests to the person sampling from the product. (i.e.
credit/time limit/track exclusions/etc.) But you don't need to be a MACOS
member to sample from the product, nor are you forced to release MACOS
flagged product if you're a member. That's up to the artist. Being a
member as a show of support is also good enough!
There are no 'by-laws' as you mention because the MACOS logos act as
identifiers which proactively grant permission to sample the marked
product. This whole idea really came out of the frustration from obtaining
permission of a sample. If you've ever gone through getting a legal
license to use a sample, only then can you really appreciate what MACOS
stands for.
About the Rather Interesting products as MACOS, you can find an up-to-date
(more acurate than Uwe's) MACOS product listing at the web site. Anyways,
visit the web site at http://www.io.org/~macos or e-mail macos@io.org if
you have any further questions. Thanks alot. Hope I answered you.
Hal.
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:02:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Cc: Frank Mark R <mrf546t@nic.smsu.edu>
Subject: BASS question.
Cool.
This poor soul cast the following question into the sometimes
uninformative (at least where AH is concerned) sea that is the Ambient
list. I've forwarded it here with the hope that someone can help him out
(his address is in the 'cc:' header):
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 00:12:12 -0600 (CST)
From: Frank Mark R <mrf546t@nic.smsu.edu>
To: ambient <ambient@hyperreal.com>
Subject: atom heart question (bass)
hello,
i'm rather new to atom heart's music, having only heard real intelligence
and lct-polyester. several tracks on real intelligence seriously move me,
esp. k-jam. my question: are all the other tracks from the albums
represented on real intelligence similar in style to the track which
appears on the cd? for instance, is the entire bass cd similar to k-jam,
and is the entire interactive music cd similar to my life as a zip-file?
or is the range of styles on real intelligence typical of all rather
interesting releases?
thanks for any help,
mark frank
on now: exotic percussion (milt raskin)
---------- End ----------
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 21:41:35 +0500
From: "Christopher B. Fox" <neuro@vt.edu>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Newbie Review - _Cloned_
Well, the store I ordered _Render_ from couldn't get it... because I didn't
give them the right label and number. BUT, the got me _Cloned_ to make up
for it! (please excuse the potentially silly ambiguity in that sentence)
Anyway... about _Cloned_. This is only the second work I've heard from Uwe,
the first being _Matter_. _Cloned_ strikes me as a more varied work,
despite its reliance on the same small sample base for every song. I hear
so many styles peeking through on _Cloned_, from droney ambience to techno
to industrial to jazz and funk. I really enjoy this album.
I'm finally beginning to decipher some of Uwe's lyrics... his voice is
really quite interesting. Soft, yet insistant and catching. Only today (a
week after buying the album) did I realize that the songs with vocals say
pretty much the same thing. Well, I would go through the tracklist and tell
you what I thought about each song, but that would get tedious for most of
you. If you are curious, e-mail me or pester me.
By the way, I ordered _Render_ today, and it is on its way!!! I realized
that it is on KK rather than Metropolis, so the confusion has been
alleviated.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program, already in progress...
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:00:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, edm@netcom.com,
ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
rainbird@eskimo.com, ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com,
sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se,
wally@nicar.org, warrenn@redac.co.uk, will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Re: BASS question
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:09:57 -0800
From: Jonathan Simpson-Bint <jonathan@imagine-inc.com>
To: ambient@hyperreal.com
Subject: atom heart question (bass)
Mark Frank asks:
> are all the other tracks from the albums represented on real intelligence
> similar in style to the track which appears on the cd? for instance, is
> the entire bass cd similar to k-jam, and is the entire interactive music
> cd similar to my life as a zip-file? or is the range of styles on real
> intelligence typical of all rather interesting releases?
Pretty much but it depends on how you hear them, I guess. RI have a very
interesting catalogue, I'd very strongly recommend Silver Sound and BASS.
The former is very cool, acid-y-jazz and the latter is plain old bonkers
noises much along the same lines as k-jam.
Also, look out for the brilliant Machine Paisley which - apart from having
a great name and awesome cover - is highbrow stuff and includes a mad anti-
microsoft/pro-macintosh tune called (from memory) 'Apples and Pears'.
"Never ever trust a microsoft tool," intones billg over a mad drum and
plinkety-plonk keyboard.
Onnow: Remotion: Global Communication
JSB
---------- End ----------
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 23:54:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, eauu432@ea.oac.uci.edu,
edm@netcom.com, ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jonathan@imagine-inc.com,
jwarr@dial.pipex.com, martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com,
mitch@teleport.com, mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu,
peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de, rainbird@eskimo.com,
ron@devi.rtvf.nwu.edu, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
warrenn@redac.co.uk, will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Cc: Eylon Israeli <snowjob@actcom.co.il>
Subject: review - "60" by SILVER SOUND
Baby.
Here's a review of "60" by SILVER SOUND which I've pulled off of the
burn site (which everyone should check out) ----> www.burnmedia.com. If
you haven't picked up this disc already, then you're really really missing
out. Really. In my opinion, this is the best R.I. release to date.
So. Who's the "Phoenix Bazootyhead Family" again?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atom Heart.Silver Sound
Rather Interesting
CD
_________________________________________________________________
German electronic hyperexperimentalist Uwe Schmidt answers the
question, "What would happen if Stereolab made an electro album?" on
this one of the most recent projects on his own Rather Interesting
label, Silver Sound "60". The namesake of the graphic designer/
musician's personal music and design space, Rather Interesting features
monthly releases by Schmidt under his Atom Heart guise, and includes
past releases of Uwe both solo and, notably, with ambient composer
Tetsu Inoue ("Flowerhead," "Datacide," "Masters Of Psychedelic
Ambiance"). The breadth of Schmidt's recorded work is quite
staggering, ranging from house to techno, trance to ambient, to
electro-jazz and beyond. Many of his recordings ("VSVN," "Interactive
Music," and "Silver Sound," most notably) feature, well, rather
interesting dynamic composition which bounce discreet sounds back and
forth from left to right channel, giving the effect of mutually
interactive, locatable musical themes. Schmidt's compositions are thus
ultimately realized in their full capacity only within the context of
the virtual acoustical space in which they are eventually played
instead of in his studio console. The effect can be quite staggering,
creating richly detailed acoustic effects which add dimensions to the
music quite apart from what one hears in the comparatively flat
acoustical space of most dual channel recordings.
Silver Sound "60" plays liberally with this compositional strategy,
particularly on tracks like "False Memories" and "Digital Fields
Forever," a pair of tracks as different internally (e.g. in their
channel separations) as they are from each other--electro and
experimental ambient, respectively. In fact, Schmidt deals most
often on "Silver Sound" with these two styles, combining bass-heavy
electronic breakbeats with lush synth "melodies" and (erm...) rather
interesting synthetic noises. But jazz also pops up quite often, not
only as a song title, but also in subtle, heavily treated samples (on
"Jazz" and the hilarious rant "The Combo Played My Favorite Tunes...")
and, perhaps most tellingly, in Schmidt's approach to song
construction. Experimental electronic music is probably, in its
operation at least, the closest thing to a truly contemporary jazz
there is, with the art of improvisation and an intuitive connection
with the means of musical production (here sequencers, samplers,
keyboards, etc. instead of piano, drums, brass, reeds, etc.) the
primary moments of artistic creation. Schmidt's familiarity with this
line of thought permeates "60", which makes the record as (...fuck...)
interesting as it is enjoyable. SC
Rating: 9
_________________________________________________________________
CD1. Congo (Featuring Lisa Carbon)
CD2. Jazz
CD3. False Memories
CD4. 50 Way Amphenol
CD5. My Mac Can Sing
CD6. Digital Fields Forever
CD7. Past Life
CD8. Neuro Traffic
CD9. Zillefunk
CD10. The Combo Played My Favourite Tunes...
CD11. Silver Sound
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 08:50:03 +8
From: Lauralee Smith <rainbird@eskimo.com>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net, eauu432@ea.oac.uci.edu,
edm@netcom.com, ehill@best.com, evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com,
gd@interramp.com, gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu,
halvx2@resrocket.com, harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net,
james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu, jonathan@imagine-inc.com,
jwarr@dial.pipex.com, martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com,
mitch@teleport.com, mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu,
peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de, rainbird@eskimo.com, scooper@best.com,
sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, snowjob@actcom.co.il,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
warrenn@redac.co.uk, will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Out of Control...
I just got paid Thursday...and yesterday, found myself the proud owner of
1) a nearly empty checkbook and 2) "Semiacoustic Nature," "Silver Sound,"
"Bass," "Polyester," "Machine Paisley," and "Render," as well as extracting
a promise from the store owner NOT to sell his last copy of "VSVN" without
talking to me first.
It has happened. I have found someone whose music is as compelling as that
of Tetsu Inoue... and he's more prolific.
A scary business indeed.
Thanks to all of you who made me aware of this music. You know who you
are.
Lauralee Smith
rainbird@eskimo.com
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 01:29:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
digund@k2nesoft.com, dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net,
eauu432@ea.oac.uci.edu, edm@netcom.com, ehill@best.com,
evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com, gd@interramp.com,
gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu, halvx2@resrocket.com,
harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net, james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu,
jonathan@imagine-inc.com, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
rainbird@eskimo.com, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
sfzqf6vw@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, snowjob@actcom.co.il,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
warrenn@redac.co.uk, will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Re: more updates
On Tue, 12 Mar 1996 (or so), Uwe Schmidt told WILL-E:
> the next RI release is called Brown which should be out in about a month.
Damn, I'm falling behind.
Anyway, what's the significance of colors for Uwe? I remember someone
mentioning that 'orange' (like the album title) was Uwe's favorite color.
egnaro.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 ______________
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
digund@k2nesoft.com, dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net,
eauu432@ea.oac.uci.edu, edm@netcom.com, ehill@best.com,
evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com, gd@interramp.com,
gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu, halvx2@resrocket.com,
harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net, james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu,
jonathan@imagine-inc.com, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
rainbird@eskimo.com, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
sfzqf6vw@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, snowjob@actcom.co.il,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
warrenn@redac.co.uk, will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Cc: Andrea Peinovich <penna@earthlink.com>
Subject: (mother) Re: Newbie Review - _Cloned_
On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Christopher B. Fox wrote:
> I'm finally beginning to decipher some of Uwe's lyrics... his voice is
> really quite interesting. Soft, yet insistant and catching.
Actually, ARE the vocals indeed Uwe? I've heard they are someone
else... oh and speaking of, check out Tetsu Inoue's vocals on "Molecular
Modeling", from "Render" (Lauralee says: "What!?").
slacov.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
on now: "Cloned" by LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS (all hail Metropolis)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:42:57 +0500
From: "Christopher B. Fox" <neuro@vt.edu>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
digund@k2nesoft.com, dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net,
eauu432@ea.oac.uci.edu, edm@netcom.com, ehill@best.com,
evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com, gd@interramp.com,
gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu, halvx2@resrocket.com,
harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net, james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu,
jonathan@imagine-inc.com, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
rainbird@eskimo.com, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
sfzqf6vw@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, snowjob@actcom.co.il,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
warrenn@redac.co.uk, will@panix.com, wise@netzone.com
Subject: Re: (mother) Re: Newbie Review - _Cloned_
> Actually, ARE the vocals indeed Uwe? I've heard they are someone
> else... oh and speaking of, check out Tetsu Inoue's vocals on "Molecular
> Modeling", from "Render" (Lauralee says: "What!?").
I have no idea who is doing the vocals. I just assumed it would be the
person doing the music. You folks would know better than I! I'll let you
know what I think of _Render_ shortly. It should be here within the next
two weeks.
> on now: "Cloned" by LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS (all hail Metropolis)
Hah! Me too! What a coincidence.
Christopher B. Fox
Senior in Philosophy and Psychology and
President of the Philosophy Club of Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:20:45 -0600 (CST)
From: wallace winfrey <wally@nicar.org>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) OK, here goes nuttin'...
Just a test post folks...if everything goes through ok we should have the
list up and running soon....
Your patience is appreciated....
wally
Insults?Information?Questions? christopher miller evil@digital.net
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 22:09:42 -0500
From: Hal Vx2 <halvx2@resrocket.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) OK, here goes nuttin'...
wallace winfrey wrote:
> Just a test post folks...if everything goes through ok we should have
> the list up and running soon....
>
> Your patience is appreciated....
Hey hey!! All is received. Reading loud and clear :))))
Hal.
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:13:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART LIST <adivakaran@worldbank.org>, aguanaut@ix.netcom.com,
alaric@io.com, aran@mit.edu, atomheart@tursa.franken.de,
carterkl@ix.netcom.com, chillspc@cadvision.com,
christian_stender@public.uni-hamburg.de, dfm8@columbia.edu,
digund@k2nesoft.com, dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu, dogstar@iac.net,
eauu432@ea.oac.uci.edu, edm@netcom.com, ehill@best.com,
evil@digital.net, faxlabel@sirius.com, gd@interramp.com,
gkvrshek@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu, halvx2@resrocket.com,
harry@sn.no, hb@bitstream.net, james.p.kirby-1@tc.umn.edu,
jonathan@imagine-inc.com, jwarr@dial.pipex.com,
martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu, mcoleman@wsnet.com, mitch@teleport.com,
mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org, neuro@vt.edu, peter.gebert@uni-konstanz.de,
rainbird@eskimo.com, scooper@best.com, sf2ev@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us,
sfzqf6vw@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, snowjob@actcom.co.il, staal@euronet.nl,
tllewand@beta.loyno.edu, tlr@stacken.kth.se, wally@nicar.org,
warrenn@redac.co.uk, weitzman@individual.com, will@panix.com,
wise@netzone.com
Cc: Wallace Winfrey <wally@nicar.org>
Subject: ATOM HEART LIST CHANGES.
Dip.
This message is VERY IMPORTANT, so make sure you read it.
For those of you who did not receive Wally's post last night, that
means you are not currently subscribed to the >automated< mailing-list
yet. If this pertains to you, please e-mail Wally at...
wally@nicar.org
...to let him know that you would like to be subscribed. Here is what
the message said:
> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:20:45 -0600 (CST)
> From: wallace winfrey <wally@nicar.org>
> To: mother@nicar.org
> Subject: (mother) OK, here goes nuttin'...
>
> Just a test post folks...if everything goes through ok we should have the
> list up and running soon....
>
> Your patience is appreciated....
>
> wally
This will probably be the very last message sent via the old/manual
method, so now you can all delete all of the "ATOM HEART LIST" addresses
from your files. Please make sure to send all AH-list posts to...
mother@nicar.org
...which is of course the mother-list.
At the request of Wally and myself, please do not advertise this list
on any of the newsgroups or mailing-lists for a while. If you know of
someone who would like to join, please (by all means) have them contact me
directly at:
evil@digital.net
So, let's start the arguments...
gnikaos.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
p.s. Also, if you want to tell Wally how great of a person he is for
donating a site for our list, I'm sure his ego needs the feeding. :}
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:03:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART/LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) review - "Polyester" by LISA CARBON TRIO
Yay.
Business as usual... here's another in the steady stream of reviews
from the burn site ( www.burnmedia.com ). Speaking of, now there's no
excuse for anyone (on this `automated' list) to not voice their own
reviews.
So Christopher and Lauralee... what's ya'lls first opinion of
"Render"? Oh and on topic, what do you think of the below album, Todd?
Go buy "Polyester".
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The Lisa Carbon.Trio.Polyester
Rephlex
CD/LP
Oh man, oh man, oh man. What the hell is up with Uwe Schmidt...?
According to the Chinese calendar, 1996 is the year of the Rat.
Methinks some translation shenanigans went on when that one was put
together 'cause '96 is definitely the year of the Heart. Atom Heart,
that is, and Uwe's latest collection of electronic sex-madness once
again proves why. "Polyester" sees Uwe exploring his fashionably-
clad feminine side through the aegis of his pop space-jazz ensemble
The Lisa Carbon Trio, and basically what he's offering is bubbly,
burbly, sample-heavy romps that showcase his penchant for a good
Oberheim solo. Usually layered over mid- and down-tempo drum loops
that vary little over the couse of the track (a possible criticism),
Uwe's keyboard instincts are given free reign on "Polyester", usually
taking the shape of three or four alternating textures and synth
patches that steadily combine, collide, and mutate. His favorites
(and luckily, mine) seem to be funky portamento slides and VCF and
LFO weirdness done analog style, channeling acid, techno, funk, soul,
ambient, and genres unknown through his mixing board. As usual the
Heart will not be pinned down, and everything from electro ("Jazz
Device"), house, bossa nova ("Cuando Me Basas"), hardcore techno
("Paraphonic"), ambient jazz ("Jambient"), and electronic sex-funk
("ROM Romantics") finds play here, tempering the relentlessness with
a good dose of variation and humor. Out on Richard "Mr. Wibble"
James' Rephlex label--which means it was actually completed and
mastered in, like, 1993 (the disc carries a '94 copyright!)--the
disc does sound a wee bit dated, and one can only marvel at where
Uwe's at now. Upon release of "Polyester", a week-long debate ensued
on the atom-heart-l as to whether or not Lisa Carbon was a real
person and, if so, what she played, if she was Uwe's wife/girlfriend/
etc. The necessity of getting a life notwithstanding, Lisa Carbon is
indeed a real person, and has been known to go by a number of other
names, as well. Like Lassigue Bendthaus, Softcore, Datacide, and of
course, Atom Heart. Get it? You'd do right to.
SC
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 03:11:10 -0500
From: Aran Parillo <aran@mit.edu>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) 'future housing' [review]
Ela Mama,
At one time Will had asked me to try and describe the 'vinyl only' track
off real intelligence 2x12" so let's get into 'future housing'
The idea of AH being "DJ Friendly" should give you a clue to the fact that
this jam will travel some standard terrain but this is Uwe Schmidt so
expect to use a nonconventional definition of standard. The track is
forged around a fairly quick (130++?) swinging almost house intellibeat
which is both focused and free to bust out into fits of typical AH
percussion (blastmaster!). It has the repetitive quality of say VSVN but
the sonic clarity of Silver Sound and the upfront production like Semi-
Acoustic's more danceable jams. The piano stabs hint to the recent (um,
can I say that word when talking about a rephlex record?) Lisa Carbon
works. A fine tune that would most likely sound most appealing mixed into
a set for the dancefloor then to the homelistener who may not overly engage
it's relative simplicty.
mazzel!
Teep
on now: Clear File <--now this is some of the right stuff
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:58:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples <macos@io.org>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) Engineer's Love??
Ok, as a fan of Uwe's early works, I am very curious to hear where he
started from. I'm aware, thanks to Will-E's extensive discography, that
Uwe released a Lassigue Bendthaus demo called Engineer's Love back in 1988.
Out of sheer curiosity, I am dying to listen to it. I've tried asking Uwe
for a copy, just for my personal collection, not for bootlegging or
anything, but he is reluctant to send one. He says, "Although there have
been many requests for this cassette over the years, those times are gone
now and no more will be made. It would no longer be a limited edition."
Well, I respect that and understand the logic, but that still doesn't get
me any closer to listening to it. I am begging anyone here that may have a
copy to contact me (halvx2@resrocket.com). Make a WAV file or whatever, I
just wanna hear it. Does anyone have it? Or how rare is it??
Thanks!
Hal.
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 14:51:06 -0500 (EST)
From: % <grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Engineer's Love??
On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Hal Vx2 penned:
> I'm aware, thanks to Will-E's extensive discography, that Uwe released
> a Lassigue Bendthaus demo called Engineer's Love back in 1988. Out of
> sheer curiosity, I am dying to listen to it.
>
> I am begging anyone here that may have a copy to contact me
> (halvx2@resrocket.com). Make a WAV file or whatever, I just wanna hear
> it. Does anyone have it? Or how rare is it??
Me too! All of the Lassigue Bendthaus releases that i've heard are very
different but share a common brilliance. Uwe's Rather Interesting releases
show a discernible progression of ideas and styles, and i wonder if this is
true of his LB work as well. I haven't heard any of Uwe's pre-1991 work
(my loss) but i'd really like to.
jen
grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:23:25 -0500
From: Brendan Krause <digund@k2nesoft.com>
To: ATOM HEART/LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) Cloned Binary
Lassigue Bendthaus / Cloned Binary ( contedisc 207kl )
1992 limited ed. release ( I believe there were 500, I sold at least 20
thru my store alone ), to accompany the Cloned release. Uwe noted "Cloned
Binary is a sample collection of more than 500 sounds taken directly from
master tapes and digital sound sources, that were used to create the
disparate versions of "cloned": drums/percussion/synths/fx/vocals & bonus
loops + mixes. Cloned Binary is not only a sample collection, it also
demonstrates the structure of "cloned" its architecture and its unique
pioneering character. It also gives an insight into Lassigue Bendthaus'
esthetics of sound and de-composition. This work should not be confused
with a normal music cd! It is broken into 19 "tracks", each with the
various sounds used in the Cloned disks. Some of the sounds were used in
the work up to the disk and never appeared in the final versions of the
songs, but I find that they themselves help me to unravel how Uwe put the
disk together. I really learned how to use my sampler creatively by using
and studying this disk! I would guess if you wanted one you would have to
pry it out of a dead tech - head's hands! FYI, I sold one to PA's THD,
who's new disk "Outside in" shows a lot of LB influence, in my opinion.
DK ( Brendan )
Digital Underground
526 S. 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
215 / 925 / 5324 phone
215 / 925 / 7277 fax
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:40:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) Re: Engineer's Love??
On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Hal Vx2 said (that Uwe Schmidt said):
> He says, "Although there have been many requests for this cassette over
> the years, those times are gone now and no more will be made. It would
> no longer be a limited edition."
Sure, but Uwe's a rock star now with a growing fanbase (that's us).
If nothing else, he's got an obligation to re-release it. If not him, then
maybe METROPOLIS in the U.S.? I mean, not all of us live in Europe - so
how were we supposed to have even obtained a copy in the first place?
Oh, and for the record: is "Engineers Love" indeed a release by
`LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS' or was it another alias? I've just gotta be
consistent on my want-list... which is way too long to mention.
sreenigne.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:34:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART/LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) Anybody want new RI releases...
Hm.
I saw this on the IDM list today and thought I'd forward it here:
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:40:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Lance C. McGannon <mclance@en.com>
To: idm@hyperreal.com
Subject: (idm) Anybody want new RI releases...
If anybody is looking for the new Rather Interesting releases Dandy Jack &
the Cosmic Trousers, Machine Paisley, or the RI comp Real Intellignece I
saw a few copies of each at Bent Crayon <bcrayon@en.com> today.
Hope that helps!
-->-Lance---
mclance@en.com
---------- End ----------
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:25:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART/LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) Etherworld.
And.
Here is a very small portion of a (much) larger list which is taken
from the Etherworld catalogue (http://www.well.com/user/pyramid/Ether.html)
or e-mail Joe Rapoza <pyramid@well.com>). Some items of interest are:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ETHERWORLD MAIL-ORDER
_________________________________________________________________
Real Intelligence (Various). A compilation from Atom Heart's Rather
Interesting label.Contains two never-before-released tracks. $16.99 CD.
Dandy Jack & the Cosmic Trousers. From Rather Interesting. Super Cheesy
cover.Gotta love it! $16.99 CD
Aerial Service Area 1 PS08/58 $14.99
PK 08/102 Jet Chamber - Atom Heart & Pete Namlook $14.99
PS 08/78 Second Nature - Atom Heart, Tetsu Inoue & Bill Laswell $14.99
_________________________________________________________________
As you may have noticed my prices are fairly competitive because I feel
good music should be affordable. Your feedback is welcome.
_________________________________________________________________
Etherworld Publishing & Recordings
P.O. Box 15374
San Francisco, CA 94115-0374
ph:fax +415.922.3532
_________________________________________________________________
Copyright © 1995 Etherworld Publishing & Recordings.
All Rights Reserved. Last updated 11/30/95
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:33:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART/LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) Etherworld (2).
No.
Not to overload the list with more FS stuff, but I saw this on the
Ambient list this morning (I've edited the post to the essentials):
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:44:35 -0800
From: Joe Rapoza <pyramid@well.com>
To: ambient@hyperreal.com
Subject: Rather Interesting...
Hello everyone:
Found some Rather Interesting old school goodies lying around.
Here they are: (I only have one of each, so you better be quick!)
"MU - Masters of Psychedelic Ambience" (Atom Heart & Tetsu Inoue)
$16.99 (RI 028)
"Dots" - Atom Heart $15.99 (RI 024)
"Interactive Music" - Atom Heart $15.99 (RI 027)
Please e-mail me privately if you're interested.
Thanks,
Joe
---------- End ----------
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 18:37:32 +8
From: Lauralee Smith <rainbird@eskimo.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Re: Newbie Review - _Cloned_
> Actually, ARE the vocals indeed Uwe? I've heard they are someone
> else... oh and speaking of, check out Tetsu Inoue's vocals on "Molecular
> Modeling", from "Render" (Lauralee says: "What!?").
Actually, Lauralee says "I read the fine print on the CD jacket and *HAD*
noticed that little detail."
> I'll let you know what I think of _Render_ shortly. It should be here
> within the next two weeks.
I bought it last week, and am wondering how representative it is of the
Lassigue Bendthaus recording projects in general. Parts of it remind me a
bit of YMO, which suits me just fine.
On now: "Render" (and it's ALL YOUR FAULT!)
Lauralee
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 00:47:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART/LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) Re: Bitniks & Hypnotism
On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Goethe wrote:
> How would you compare it to the Fax, Rather Interesting, Morphogenetic
> Fields, or +N on Geomtrik releases? What's it most like? I'm just a
> little wary now about looking before I leap (so to speak) after hearing
> the hard trance.
Well first off, I've got to agree with the others who say that the +N
album "ex.s" is in a field of it's own. As far as `hard trance' goes,
which project/album/song are you referring to so I can get a point of
reference?
Personally I think "Halograms" most closely resembles "Morphogenetic
Fields", only it's better and less accessable dance-track oriented (I'd
imagine that's probably what you didn't like). Actually though, this album
reminds me of something off of R.I. in that there is no particular set
`sound' or `feel' to this disc. It's definitely a mixed bag - in a
positive way.
The first track, "Fast Frame", is pretty trancey (like the
"Morphogenetic Fields" material you dislike I suppose), but that's where
that style stops. Tracks #2 through #6 might as well be from a lost R.I.
release (ala VSVN, FLEXTONE, INTERACTIVE MUSIC, or SEMIACOUSTIC NATURE).
Track #7, "Bitnik", might as well be an outtake from LB's "Render". And on
and on... just get it (skip the review).
Actually, now that I think of it, this entire album could be
considered the missing link between LB and the R.I. material - instrumental
and without the vocals of course. Regardless, I STRONGLY recommend getting
"Halograms".
On a parting note, I just wanted to let everyone I've contacted
numerous shops and mail-order places (including EAR/Rational, where I
originally got "Halograms"), and no one has this disc. In fact, no one
carries ANYTHING on the HYPNOTISM label. If anyone has any leads on stuff
from this label, I implore you to post it.
skintib.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
on now: "Halograms" by THE BITNIKS
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:38:07 -0500
From: Brendan Krause <digund@k2nesoft.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) L. Bendthaus stuff
Render was a very stylistic departure for Uwe from the previous Matter and
Cloned albums. I like to describe Matter as being his "electro" album, and
Cloned as his "industrial" album - whereas Render is an "electro / techno"
hybrid. Uwe really shows a diversity of interests and influences on Render,
and you can definitely feel a move away from the stark minimalism of the
earlier releases. More so than the Atom Heart releases, in my opinion, Uwe
really reinvents the L. Bendthaus project each time around. I am very
curious to hear the new cd coming on KK, if "Overflow" is any indication,
he is getting deeper into the techno end of L. Bendthaus.
Oh yeah, here's an idea : let's play spot the Uwe sample ! You can plainly
hear the "headache formulant" from the Cloned album / Cloned Binary
sampling disk at the beginning of Haujobb's "trivial" on Freeze Frame
Reality. You can hear the "Headache formulant" ( its a ring modulated
tone ) on track 4 of Cloned (cloned #3 (3)), its the buzzing tone that
begins the first minute of the track. Haujobb builds their own track in a
very closely related pattern. FFR clearly shows imitation is the sincerest
form of flattery . . .
What other tracks can people find with Uwe samples ? Be interested to
compile a list down the road, since I know a lot of artists out there with
the Cloned Binary disk.
More later, I can smell my muffins burning . . .
DK ( Brendan )
Digital Underground
526 S. 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
215 / 925 / 5324 phone
215 / 925 / 7277 fax
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:57:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Hal Vx2 <halvx2@io.org>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) L. Bendthaus stuff
On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Brendan Krause wrote:
> What other tracks can people find with Uwe samples ? Be interested to
> compile a list down the road, since I know a lot of artists out there
> with the Cloned Binary disk.
Also, Haujobb's remix of Circuitry by FLA has a LB Bassline from a track
off Render (or Render Audible) but I just can't seem to place it to an
exact track. Oh well..
Hal (who doesn't have the Cloned Binary disk)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:05:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Hal Vx2 <halvx2@io.org>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) Message to you from Uwe number two
Concerning my response [which was] put on the mailing list. I probably
evoked an unintended reaction as somebody stated that nobody from the
mailing list wrote that *sydney* article. I was aware of that part, and
of course my *negative* response was directed towards the original writer,
although he will probably never read my response. Second thing. There was
a longer discussion about lisa carbon going on trying to figure out who and
even _if_ she is. Somebody concluded that she is just another alias of my
person which i have to deny. Due to the fact that lisa is not living in
europe (right now she stays in columbia for a couple of months) she is not
available here to prove the opposite. Anyway, she is real. On the
austrian *cheap* label a couple of new records are planned to be released
soon, which lisa, a couple of other members and myself have created.
Uwe.
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:38:54 -0500
From: Chris Howe <chowe@world.std.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) Lisa=real?
Hi, this is my first post to this list.
I like most of the RI releases, even going back to the SONIC records days
(an Instinct subsidiary.) However, reading the most recent messages here
about the existence of Lisa, I must lend my opinion that she does not
exist, but is one of Uwe's alter egos.
It seems that way to me as a listener, and I also have confirmation from
inside sources.
-Chris
Electronic Radio - 'Easter Island' |\ _,,,---,,_
http://world.std.com/~chowe /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_
Truth is an Onion |,4-) ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-'
---------------------------------- -'---''(_/--'---'\_)-------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 03:44:23 -0500
From: Hal Vx2 <halvx2@resrocket.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Lisa=real?
Chris Howe wrote:
> most recent messages here about the existence of Lisa, I must lend my
> opinion that she does not exist, but is one of Uwe's alter egos. It
> seems that way to me as a listener, and I also have confirmation from
> inside sources.
Ahm... your opinion is.. well, your opinion... but I think my 'inside
sources' are a little more reliable and a little more 'inside', don't you
think?
Hal.
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:32:18 -0800
From: charles uzzell-edwards <faxlabel@sirius.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) Atom Heart samples
On the subject of music with uwe samples, I must include 'Octopus'. One
piece has an environmental recording made indoors, and there is music from
'Interactive Music' playing in the background. Following Macos protocol, I
cleared it with uwe first and explained to him what the context was. I
just thought I would make my confession to mother.
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:49:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART/LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) "Head Dance" 12" by DATACIDE - lead.
Howdy.
This is from a FAX bid list I came across... I've edited everything
out except the one pertinent item:
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 12:27:40 -0800 (PST)
From: *+* <lotus@connectnet.com>
Subject: Re: fax cd/vinyl auction
the following fax cd's + vinyl are up for auction. the deadline is friday
april 5th. all cd's in excellent shape. most have been played 1-2 times
at the most. shipping is extra. the only fax cd's i'm really looking for
as far as trading goes are datacide, shades of orion 1, and i.f. 1
vinyl (min bid $12) (all unplayed)
datacide
---------- End ----------
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:24:09 -500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) Re: "Overflow"
On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Brendan Krause wrote:
> More so than the Atom Heart releases, in my opinion, Uwe really
> reinvents the L. Bendthaus project each time around. I am very curious
> to hear the new cd coming on KK, if "Overflow" is any indication, he is
> getting deeper into the techno end of L. Bendthaus.
Actually, I have to take issue with this. The song, "Overflow", is
repetitive (gasp) uneventful electronica - like the kind you would find on
a lot of U.S. techno compilations. I really sincerely hope the upcoming
"Pop Artificielle" is not anything like it.
The "eminar mix" is niiiiice and trancey (sub bass ala SPEEDJACK), and
the "sift mix" is choppy-harsh as shit (of course... it's Mark Bell of
EL EF OH). But the original version, it's "extended" mix, and even the
"fluid mix" don't hold my attention enough to think about popping this in
after work. Not even after the dishes are done and my daughter, Ilizibith
is asleep. Not even when a bunch of my friends come over and we sm...
...nope. Besides, what's a LB release without vocals of some sort
(even distorto-computer-generated ones)? No Arielle. No neo-Asian "Blade
Runner"-esque female `computer' voices. No `ReEeEeEeEeEeeeender". Just
simply instrumental... stuff. Stuff that doesn't really at all sound pre-
composed. A too pre-programed one-take `press the buttons' sound.
Does anyone else have this single? I'd be curious to hear other
opinions.
wolfrevo.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 9:08:22 GMT
From: Warren Nicholls <warrenn@redac.co.uk>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) "Head Dance" 12" by DATACIDE - lead.
> vinyl (min bid $12) (all unplayed)
>
> datacide
Whats the track listing on this? I have the Datacide II fax CD, is there
anything different on here?
Thanks,
Warren
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:29:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Re: "Overflow"
On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Christopher Miller wrote:
> simply instrumental... stuff. Stuff that doesn't really at all sound
> pre-composed. A too pre-programmed one-take `press the buttons' sound.
If Lassigue Bendthaus is supposed to be the project in which he takes his
time and carefully crafts the tracks, the "Overflow" single still sounds a
whole lot like the more spontaneous material. In which case I have to
wonder how his approach differed for this LB project vs his other material.
Either he did not make the additional effort, or his extra attention does
not yield finer results than the 7/10 kind of material he releases so much
of.
Another possibility is that Kk had something in mind and Uwe and them
settled on that track.
--Mark
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:30:24 -0800
From: Eric Hill <ehill@best.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) Uwe's noms de quality
> If Lassigue Bendthaus is supposed to be the project in which he takes his
> time and carefully crafts the tracks
Now this is an interview I haven't come across yet, apparently! Uwe puts a
level of attention to detail into his music that is rare these days, though
I haven't heard much LB. His programming and composition are more solid and
precise than anything that I've heard out of anyone else in this here
present-day electrotronic music scene, and it seems odd that he would
reserve some projects for clearer expressions than others.
eric
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 17:01:21 -0700
From: Sean Cooper <scooper@best.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Uwe's noms de quality
> Now this is an interview I haven't come across yet, apparently! Uwe puts
> a level of attention to detail into his music that is rare these days,
> though I haven't heard much LB. His programming and composition are more
> solid and precise than anything that I've heard out of anyone else in
> this here present-day electrotronic music scene, and it seems odd that he
> would reserve some projects for clearer expressions than others.
nonetheless, he seems to. his rather interesting stuff is, to my ears, by
far the most integrated and polished. the lisa carbon trio that i've heard
(polyester) is far more "jam-y" and less about roping a lot of material
into an orchestrated whole. most of his fax stuff seems to be about setting
the machines up and letting them run; not nearly the same compositional
concepts or principles of ri or lct seem to be at work here...i haven't
heard too much of his 12-inch only stuff, and the only lb i've heard did
nothing for me, but from what i've read the latter does seem to be the
project he reserves for his most song-oriented material. i'd be interested
to find some lb worthy of that comparison or hear other accounts of the
nuance at work in uwe's various projects...
(obviously none of the above should be taken as the final word on any of
these projects, but merely a very small collection componenets or
impressions that serve to differentiate, in my mind anyway, one project
from another...)
sc
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 19:14:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART / LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Cc: Warren Nicholls <warrenn@redac.co.uk>
Subject: (mother) Re: "Head Dance" 12" by DATACIDE - lead.
On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Warren Nicholls wrote:
> Whats the track listing on this? I have the Datacide II fax CD, is there
> anything different on here?
Must be nice... as I don't have that disc. Anyway I'm not sure, but
here's the discographical info on the 12" release so you can figure it out
for yourself:
HEAD DANCE : DATACIDE (1993)
1 HEAD DANCE (atamade odorou) 11.00
2 MEDITATION BANK 12.08
GER (12" PS 08/32 (deleted)) FAX SUBLABEL
note: The GERMAN 12" for "Head Dance" comes in a white generic die-cut
paper record jacket (with no picture sleeve).
note: The GERMAN 12" for "Head Dance" has the following messages etched
into its run-out grooves, on Side A: "PRODUCED AT SEL i/s/c.", and
on Side B: "SCANNING LANDSCAPE".
Speaking of leads... anyone know where I can get either the DATACIDE
disc on FAX, or the other one on POD?
edicatad.
christopher miller
evil@digital.net
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:00:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Uwe's noms de quality
> Now this is an interview I haven't come across yet, apparently!
He talked a little about the different projects in an interview Chris
Miller sent to me in the mail.
> nonetheless, he seems to. his rather interesting stuff is, to my ears, by
> far the most integrated and polished.
Some of the releases IMO rely too heavily on dry 808 and a small number of
other sounds. (e.g. Semiacoustic Nature) I dig the aesthetic regardless,
but prefer the work in which he makes use of custom-built/custom-stolen
percussion sounds and more than 1 or 2 additional layers (e.g. VSVN). Even
something as sparse as I/_Repetetive Digital Noise_ works better for my
ear. This is because each of the small number of events takes on more
significance because of the source sounds.
> most of his fax stuff seems to be about setting the machines up and
> letting them run; not nearly the same compositional concepts or
> principles of ri or lct seem to be at work here...
With the exception of Softcore, which I think is a standout, I tend to
agree.
> i'd be interested to find some lb worthy of that comparison or hear other
> accounts of the nuance at work in uwe's various projects...
Look for _Cloned_. This is a fine exposition of his minimalist, recycled-
audio approach as employed in a subtle variety of ways on his many
releases. _Cloned_ is on a more industrial-dance tip, with some vocals.
Most significantly for my tastes, it is perhaps the most multi-layered
record of his that I've heard.
--Mark
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:31:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Goethe <martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Uwe's noms de quality
On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Mark Kolmar wrote:
> > most of his fax stuff seems to be about setting the machines up and
> > letting them run; not nearly the same compositional concepts or
> > principles of ri or lct seem to be at work here...
>
> With the exception of Softcore, which I think is a standout, I tend to
> agree.
What about the excellent Coeur Atomique (Atom Heart) Cd on Fax though? One
of his best works and quite involved on a compositional level...beats,
melody, weirdness etc. This release would be right at home on RI.
Tony
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:13:20 -0500
From: WILL-E <will@panix.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Re: "Head Dance" 12" by DATACIDE - lead.
Warren Nicholls <warrenn@redac.co.uk> wrote:
> Whats the track listing on this? I have the Datacide II fax CD, is there
> anything different on here?
the 2 tracks on the 12" are also on the Datacide II CD on FAX in case you
havent' figured that out yet. Speaking of Datacide, Tetsu left for Germany
earlier this week to record the next Datacide CD on Rather Interesting with
Atom Heart. I can't wait!
Christopher Miller wrote:
> Speaking of leads... anyone know where I can get either the DATACIDE
> disc on FAX, or the other one on POD?
oh dear... that's tough. Both of these were pretty limited and came out a
few years ago. So many of the FAX collectors have been snatching up
anything with Tetsu's or Atom Heart's name on it that I would imagine that
it is even harder to find by now not to mention there were only 500 copies
made. I think the best tracks from it are on the record or have found
their way onto the compilations.
The first Datacide CD on Pod is mostly really crunchy hard techno that I
honestly didn't appreciate that much. I did like that they used the logo
for DAT tapes in the name DATacide on that CD. I recall there was one
ambient track in the middle of it all but it also wasn't all that. A
friend played this for me a long time ago... so am I remembering correctly
or does anyone else share these opinions?
___
/ / / / / / _ __/ will@panix.com
(_/__/ / (__ (__ ___/ http://www.hyperreal.com/~will/
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 14:16:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Goethe <martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Re: "Head Dance" 12" by DATACIDE - lead.
On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, WILL-E wrote:
> The first Datacide CD on Pod is mostly really crunchy hard techno that I
> honestly didn't appreciate that much. I did like that they used the logo
> for DAT tapes in the name DATacide on that CD. I recall there was one
> ambient track in the middle of it all but it also wasn't all that. A
> friend played this for me a long time ago... so am I remembering
> correctly or does anyone else share these opinions?
I didn't care for the Datacide on POD either. It's *nothing* like the
Datacide releases on Fax or Rather Interesting. As you said Will, most of
it is really hard noisy techno. I couldn't sit through some of the tracks.
There are 2-3 ambientish tracks that are pretty good but I still returned
the CD to my local store. Thankfully I was able to get full credit on the
$24.99 price.
Tony
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:49:59 -0500
From: Adam J Weitzman <weitzman@individual.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Re: "Head Dance" 12" by DATACIDE - lead.
Goethe wrote:
> I didn't care for the Datacide on POD either. It's *nothing* like the
> Datacide releases on Fax or Rather Interesting. As you said Will, most of
> it is really hard noisy techno. I couldn't sit through some of the
> tracks.
Well, if anyone can get me one of these, I'd definitely appreciate it. I
dig hard crunchy techno, and I imagine Mr. Schmidt might do it rather well.
I'd also like to get a copy of _Morphogenetic_Fields_ and the FAX Datacide
release if anyone finds an extra. Thanks!!
I have exactly 0 Lassigue Bendthaus releases. Where should I start?
--
Adam J Weitzman ----- Individual, Inc. ----- weitzman@individual.com
"I love the music of the 20th century!" - Bruce Willis, "12 Monkeys"
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:48:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: re: (mother) crunchy techno / LB recs
On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Adam J Weitzman wrote:
> I dig hard crunchy techno, and I imagine Mr. Schmidt might do it rather
> well.
As you might guess already, the stuff I've heard in this style (Datacide
and Urban Primitivism on POD) is a little like Aphex Twin's crunchier
material, but with clearer production. As a 1st-generation German I also
have to say it has a Teutonic stoicism and detatchment too, which I dig.
I'd be curious to know if those of you who do not like the crunchy stuff
just don't care for the style regardless, or if you don't care for the way
he did it.
> I'd also like to get a copy of _Morphogenetic_Fields_
Try ear@xmission.com. He lists it as being available.
Supposedly POD represses their releases, but for some reason they are very
difficult to find in the U.S.
> I have exactly 0 Lassigue Bendthaus releases. Where should I start?
I'd suggest _Cloned_, except possibly for those of you who dislike crunchy
stuff.
--Mark
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:56:18 -0600
From: Mark Coleman <mcoleman@wsnet.com>
To: "mother@nicar.org" <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) LB for the LB newbie
> I dig hard crunchy techno, and I imagine Mr. Schmidt might do it rather
> well.
>
> I have exactly 0 Lassigue Bendthaus releases. Where should I start?
If you are wanting the hard crunchy techno, get Cloned. Beyond marveling
at the amazing prowess Mr. Schmidt has at manipulating samples, the songs
are excellent. They merely hint at one another and mostly they are harder
and more harsh than the other LB records. Both Render and Matter are
terrific also. Matter is more electro-dance (reminds me of Clock DVA's
Sign record with different vocalist) and Render is more atmospheric and the
"A" word. It sounds more organic, for lack of a better term. Very warm
sounds at times.
Now my question, how different is Render Audible from Render.
Mark
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:20:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org>
To: "mother@nicar.org" <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: Re: (mother) LB for the LB newbie
> Now my question, how different is Render Audible from Render.
They are two very different records. _Render Audible_ is not at all song-
oriented, more like the RI material in overall tone-color, but the tracks
are more multi-layered and multi-faceted.
_Render Audible_ would be a better place to start than _Cloned_ if you want
to stay on the lighter side. Not that it is a light record, though...
--Mark
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 01:25:44 -0500
From: Hal Vx2 <halvx2@resrocket.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) LB for the LB newbie
Mark Kolmar wrote:
> They are two very different records. _Render Audible_ is not at all
> song-oriented, more like the RI material in overall tone-color, but the
> tracks are more multi-layered and multi-faceted.
Ok, I've heard on RMI about another album called Render Absolute. Now,
I've NEVER before heard of this but I was just curious. Dunno if it'a a
typo perhaps. Anyways, I've always been too shy to ask Uwe (but I guess
he'll read this now anyways) so if you've heard of it, please tell. Maybe
it's a bootleg?? Anyways, someone on RMI claimed to see it in a catolog
somewhere.
Hal.
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 9:30:08 GMT
From: Warren Nicholls <warrenn@redac.co.uk>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) Re: "Head Dance" 12" by DATACIDE - lead.
Goethe wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, WILL-E wrote:
>
> > The first Datacide CD on Pod is mostly really crunchy hard techno that
> > I honestly didn't appreciate that much.
>
> I didn't care for the Datacide on POD either. It's *nothing* like the
> Datacide releases on Fax or Rather Interesting. As you said Will, most of
> it is really hard noisy techno. I couldn't sit through some of the
> tracks.
This was the last of the three datacide CD's that I came across, certainly
not what I expected. The techno tracks are ok if you like that sort of
thing (which I don't mind at all) and the more laidback tracks are as good
as usual. Not my favourite datacide CD, but what can possibly be better
than flowerhead??? (The next datacide?????)
Does anyone know where the name Datacide came from? DAT-acid-E ?
Warren.
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 02:03:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Goethe <martinej@rohan.sdsu.edu>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) Morphogenetic Fields
On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Adam J Weitzman wrote:
> I'd also like to get a copy of _Morphogenetic_Fields_ and the FAX
> Datacide release if anyone finds an extra. Thanks!!
Is Morphogenetic Fields deleted now? (It's on Rough Trade) Saw someone
selling a used copy for $25 which seems steep if it's still available. Of
course it's very good..all AH fans should have it. The companion Milagro CD
EP is also on RT and very good too.
Tony
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:05:50 -0500
From: Brendan Krause <digund@k2nesoft.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) LB for the LB newbie
Hal Vx2 wrote:
> Ok, I've heard on RMI about another album called Render Absolute. Now,
> I've NEVER before heard of this but I was just curious. Dunno if it'a a
> typo perhaps. Anyways, I've always been too shy to ask Uwe (but I guess
> he'll read this now anyways) so if you've heard of it, please tell.
> Maybe it's a bootleg?? Anyways, someone on RMI claimed to see it in a
> catolog somewhere.
Render Absolute is the most infamous and regretable typo I ever committed
in the Digital Underground mail order catalog. Gulp . . . and I thought
people had finally given me all of the abuse I was due. You try editing my
catalog every ten weeks for 2000 + releases and see what I mean. I meant
Render Audible of course. Funny thing is that one of our competitors
actually added it to their mail order catalog ! Welcome to the wild and
wacky world of underground music.
DK ( Brendan )
Digital Underground
526 S. 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
215 / 925 / 5324 phone
215 / 925 / 7277 fax
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 23:36:33 +0100
From: Daniel Kahlin <e92_dak@elixir.e.kth.se>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) LB for the LB newbie
How do I get hold of Lassigue Bendthaus CD:s?
No one here in Stockholm seams to have heard of the group. :-(
What record company is marketing it?
I think "Render" and "Matter" would suit me!
/Daniel Kahlin <tlr@stacken.kth.se>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 17:08:18 -0800
From: Kimberly Carter <carterkl@ix.netcom.com>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: (mother) Re: CRUNCHY ARGO ACID RULES!
just had to get my 2 cents in here. If ya like it crunchy you should try
out Dr Mueller "Nipples and Bass". It puts rice crispies to shame!. And
Nestle Crunch bars don't stand a chance against the allmighty power crunh
of Urban Primitism. It's too bad this style has all but vanished. I've
been into Heart a long time and I like all of his styles but i'm sick of
this retro seventies shit!
ReezooB
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 18:41:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Miller <evil@digital.net>
To: ATOM HEART/LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS LIST <mother@nicar.org>
Subject: (mother) Re: Uwe's noms de quality
On Wed, 27 Mar 1996 Mark Kolmar implied:
> Lassigue Bendthaus is supposed to be the project in which he takes his
> time and carefully crafts the tracks
And, on Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Eric Hill responded:
> Now this is an interview I haven't come across yet, apparently!
Well Eric, you're in luck. In the spirit of this thread, I am re-
posting the interview in question. And giving credit where credit is due,
it was Jennifer Grof <grof@chuma.cas.usf.edu>, and not me, who originally
transcribed and posted the article in question (on January 22nd). Hope
everyone digs it:
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LASSIGUE BENDTHAUS/ATOM HEART
Morphogenetic Engineering
by Neil Gardner
For those of you who keep a watchful eye on the machinations of electronic
dance music, Atom Heart is a name that will have become very familiar in
recent times. Although he enjoys far less of a profile than some of his
more feted peers, Atom Heart, or Uwe as he is known to his friends, is one
of the most prolific and prodigious operators to emerge from the Frankfurt
techno scene. In the past three years he has been responsible for over 70
releases in a wide range of styles under various 'noms de plume', as well
as an ever increasing amount of remixes. Yet unlike many of his
contemporaries there is a marked consistency running through his material:
fine tuned ambient and techno works as Atom Heart, elegant trance as Bi-
Face (with Resistance D's Pascal F.E.O.S.), the uncompromising and self-
explanatory "Reflective Digital Noise" as 'I' and all manner of wigged out
acid excursions as Weird Shit, Atomu' Shinzo and many others. Uwe was also
one of the perpetrators of Ongaku's "Mihon", for my money, along with
"Prophet" by Sequential, one of the most atmospheric and affecting trance
records to date. Yet, despite the fact he is better acknowledged for these
releases, it is the techno pop of Lassigue Bendthaus that remains his most
cherished project.
Lassigue Bendthaus first emerged in 1991 with the heavily Cabaret Voltaire
influenced "Matter" LP, but really made an impact a year later with the
follow up, "Cloned", a conceptual and highly creative album of 11
relentless pieces of hard edged industrial techno, reconstructed and de-
composed as the title suggests from one original track. "Render" is by
comparison a much lighter and varied affair, though no less impressive and
stems from a long term interest in pop music. It's certainly the product
of a lot of hard thought.
"Render" has been in preparation for about 2 years. I spent a lot of time
collecting samples and quotations from everywhere so the album was
basically in by head before I started recording. My approach to Lassigue
Bendthaus is very organized and strict whereas Atom Heart is more of a
relaxation. Lassigue Bendthaus tends to be pretty intense, for example, I
can take up to one month constructing one track while I've just done an
acid record ("Azid Ramcrash" on Delirium) which lasts 18 minutes and took
me 20 minutes to do! The techno stuff is very spontaneous."
Certainly "Render" sounds carefully assembled encompassing a wide range of
styles, from the 'just floated in from the ether' ambience of 'I'm Slowly
Morphing' to the hostile breakbeats of 'JKTV', whilst the eccentric pop of
'Molecular Modelling' recalls Yellow Magic Orchestra. It's an engaging
mixture.
"Well, Lassigue Bendthaus follows my version of pop music, I'm trying not
to repeat existing traces such as Kraftwerk. For "Render" I've take bits
and pieces from everywhere including rock, rap, avant-garde and Japanese
music and fused them. I've become very interested in writing songs as
techno is more monochrome and one dimensional."
There's a definite Japanese influence to the album, several tracks feature
Japanese lyrics, whilst 'JKTV/Otaku' investigates the world of Oriental
youths fixated by the media and information, communicating via the computer
interface.
"When I first heard about Otaku, I though it was a purely Japanese
phenomenon but I began to realize that there were many in Frankfurt, in
fact many people think I'm one! In truth, I find the idea of Otaku
fascinating but slightly unhealthy, you need to get out a bit!"
The previous album "Cloned" was arresting not only in the way it was
produced, but also for the sister CD "Binary" containing over 200 sound
used on the album for others to sample. This contribution to the sampling
debate came about through Uwe's passionate belief in the freedom of music
and led him to create M.A.C.O.S. (Musicians Against Copywriting of
Samples), an organization for musicians interested in sampling or being
sampled. Once joined, the idea is to place the MACOS logo (a crossed 'C')
on the record sleeve so that other may sample without fear of prosecution.
"I think some people are too precious about their music, and although it's
hard to define boundaries, if you love someone's music you sample it. It
only usually becomes a problem if your record becomes successful. They say
it's about morals but the main motivation is always money!"
Although he believes forcefully in the art of sampling, Uwe is also
slightly dismissive of the way it is sometimes utilized; "Sampling can be
very sophisticated but most people aren't into the architecture of the
machines".
Given the care and attention lavished upon each Lassigue Bendthaus release,
it's unlikely there will be another for some time. Not that this will call
a halt to his imagination. He's just completed a startling remix of
Prong's 'Snap Your Fingers', the first decent collision of techno and metal
since FLA's overhaul of Fear Factory, and a genre crossover he finds
potentially exciting and under used. Uwe is also pondering future
possibilities for ambient, has a stack of demented acid tracks awaiting
release and has even expressed an interest in remixing Johann Strauss! For
such an unassuming person, you feel he must have sold his soul to the devil
to keep up such a level of creativity. Long may the pact continue.
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_Music From the Empty Quarter_
Issue 10 pages 51-52
August 1994
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:53:19 +0500
From: "Christopher B. Fox" <neuro@vt.edu>
To: mother@nicar.org
Subject: Re: (mother) LB for the LB newbie
> How do I get hold of Lassigue Bendthaus CD:s?
> No one here in Stockholm seams to have heard of the group. :-(
> What record company is marketing it?
> I think "Render" and "Matter" would suit me!
I know that both _Matter_ and _Cloned_ were released domestically
in the US via Metropolis Records. The original label is KK Records, which
is also what _Render_ is on.
Christopher B. Fox
Senior in Philosophy and Psychology and
President of the Philosophy Club of Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University