was "blue arsed fly" landstrum and vogel? or is my dope addled memory
playing me up again?

and i never knew it was him behind buckfunk 3000. u learn something new each
day...

----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "313" <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [313] 313 stand on....


> Phonopsia wrote:
> I love old Landstrumm from the Peacefrog days. Played some tonight. Since
> then a lot of it has been "close but no cigar" for me. His contribution to
> one of the New Electronica comps was quite nice and a good change of pace
> though. The Blue Arsed Fly stuff was nice too. I don't think Russ
> Gabrielle's "In The Bag" remix has ever strayed too far from my crate (not
> that that really counts).
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Tristan your missing out on some of Landstrumm's best moments;  Praline
> Horse, Bedrooms & Cities, Misunderstanding Disinformation (all on Tresor)
> all contain some great Landstrumm gems, not to mention his Sativae output,
> which  may sound a little dated now but still pumps a crowd well.  Lately
> I've been really digging some downtempo tunes he's produced with Si Begg
on
> Mosquito (the label Russ initially heard Blue Arse Fly on to sign them to
> Ferox).
>
> Vogel on the other hand, was hit an miss for me, I love 'Lock onto Signal'
> off of Tresor 5, but dislike most of his other Tresor output, with a few
> exceptions, mainly 'Don't Take More' off of "All Music Has come to an End"
> and 'Tearing the Groove" shows a side of Vogel I would love to hear a
whole
> LP by.  Which his newest work Rescate 137, comes closer to doing, and if I
> could ever find it on vinyl I would snatch it up.  For the most part
though
> I just don't understand his concepts, but then again I'm sure I'm not the
> only one.  He's quoted as saying "I make music  for f***ed up people".  Go
> figure.
>
> Si Begg has had a big hand in what Landstrumm and Vogel have put together,
> and has been around since the Mosquito days (him and Vogel did 2 records
on
> Trope called Inevitech TR007 and TR011, I'm still looking for these and
will
> pay good money or trade).  He is weirder than anyone else in the No Future
> camp, and has no fear of breaking the boundaries on what is and isn't
music.
> His concepts are clearer on his Cabbagehead material (check out
'Commercial
> Suicide' for the most laughable product oriented track ever), but he too
can
> be quite deluded.  He sticks mostly to abstract breakbeats now (producing
> for Skint and under his Buckfunk3000 guise).  Remember 'All the Way In' by
> Bigfoot (feat. on Laurent Garnier's Laboratoire mix), that was Si.  I love
> that tune.   His most recent output was "The Noodles Foundation presents:
> The Death of Cool part 2" it is basically Si doing what he does best:
> f***ing sh*t up!
>
> Berkovi, is a gearhead and writes for Future Music.  I've tried to collect
> most of his output but I'm beginning to wane on it.  Especially after his
> 'Charm Hostel' LP came out on Force Inc. a couple of years back.  Great
> producer limited by his need to be weird.
>
> Tobias Schmidt's latest LP 'Dark of Heartness' is his best work ever IMHO,
> there's no need to look back on what he has done before, same goes for
> Tarrida and his latest opus 'Paranoid'.
>
> I hate Subhead and SuperCollider really didn't hit me either.
>
> Sorry to blather on about this, these guys really interest me though.
They
> have been pioneering the weirder end of techno for so long and making it
> stand out so that when labels like Perlon come along and put out some wack
> ass sh*t we all think it sounds great!  Their impact on techno is far
> reaching, and we will be reaping the rewards of their past output's
> influence upon future generations for some time to come.
>
> R.I.P No Future Camp
>
> Cheers
> todd
>
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