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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:01:52 EST
From: Dgasque@aol.com
Subject: Re: country & western / bluegrass / thank you!
In a message dated 3/22/00 4:29:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, gda@datacomm.ch
writes:
<< looking forward to your answers! >>
A handful'a bluegrass bands you shouldn't miss-
Seldom Scene
Doyle Larson & Quicksilver
Hot Rize
Allison Krauss & Union Station
New Grass Revival
"Can't miss" Bluegrass label: Sugar Hill
There's a pretty decent bluegrass scene going on in your neck of the woods-
in Czechnya/Slovakia specifically, though I don't know of any labels or
addresses to seek out.
A great web spot to check out is Country Standard Time's pages. They cover
the entire gamut of country and bluegrass with an emphasis on the "new"
non-Nashville scene. Tons of CD reviews. Great magazine too, but a bit
expensive for overseas subscribers.
http://www.countrystandardtime.com/
Bluegrass isn't exactly Zorn, but it is creative music. Not as OT as some
stuff I've seen on the list, but I'd be the last to complain about that...
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np: Move Groove- Groove Along With Dong (Uli Trepte and friends doing the old
Middle-Eastern funk meets Gong thing)
=dg=
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:17:46 -0800 (PST)
From: a rancid amoeba <rancid@best.com>
Subject: Re: Godflesh?
> I like Godflesh very much. They have a great mix of metal and experimentation that is right up my alley. "Songs of Love & Hate" and their self-titled are the two I'd recommend.
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> Also, if you can find it (as far as I know, all the albums are unavailable), they did three albums with Tim Hodgkinson on a project called God. The only one I've heard is "Anatomy of Addiction" and, IMO, is better than Godflesh. Whether you can find God or not, I think most of Godflesh's work is solid.
The old Godflesh stuff is pretty austere (too austere for my tastes so
I don't own any of it). Songs of Love & Hate keeps the heaviness but
adds a more driving bounciness. The In Dub album adds more beats to
the music (still comes nowhere near dance music though). Although
I normally love remix albums, I think the original Love & Hate was
better. Us And Them is in the same musical vein as Love & Hate but
with a more aggressive edge to it (a good thing) but with the beats
sounding a little more obviously like a drum machine (a bad thing).
God is a project of Kevin Martin's with a gathered collective of people
including Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow) and Justin Broadrick (Godflesh).
They have 4 or so full lengths and a few EPs. They seem to like to alternate
studio albums with live albums...the live albums are generally noisier.
Possession is kind of meeting of Painkiller and Godflesh: Justin Broadrick's
trademark guitar sound with a chaotic mix of saxes and clarinets on some
tracks (Zorn guests on several tracks), and a more plodding Godflesh feel
(but with more urgency) on others. Anatomy of Addiction increases the
Godfleshian guitar/bass sound and decreases the chaos. Appeal to Human
Greed could practically be called Anatomy of Addiction in Dub...remixes
of Addiction tracks pushing further into the beat-oriented territory (but
if you blindfolded me there's a couple of tracks I'd swear were Godflesh
and not Broadrick-remixed God tracks).
If you like the guitar/chaos mix try some of Alboth's stuff (although
they have a pretty big range of styles through their discography).
If you want more of the guitar/beats mix, try Transmisia's Frigid Prose
(Yugoslavian "rock" band remixed by Mick Harris (Painkiller, Napalm
Death) and Eraldo Bernocchi (Sigillum S). For dark dubbier stuff, try
Terminal Cheesecake's King of All Spaceheads. For a more rock-like
Godflesh sound, try Grill (actually just buy anything that's on PDCD...it's
all good). And check out all the Kevin Martin and Broadrick offshoots...
Ice, Techno Animal, Final, Sweet Tooth, Fall of Because, etc.
