I see where you are coming from Bill, but my problem with it is not that it
is uplifting, but that it strikes me as being contrived. Tides was uplifting
in parts, but not in a cheesy way. Trains strikes me as being an attempt to
do another version of Tides, but it missed the point.
I feel like the record is trying to make me feel happy, you know what I
mean? I know that he is professional producer(he was in FM a couple issues
ago...) and that he is just trying his hand at this music, and like another
poster said, it comes through in the record. There is just something that
struck me as being seriously wrong with that record the minute I heard it,
and I have tried to get my head around it with no success.
In hindsight, I was probably more vitrolic than I needed to be. The bottom
line is that it might be a good record, but there is a lot of other material
in the CCO catalog that is more deserving of listmembers attention. I would
probably be a lot more tolerant of it's shortcomings if I recieved it as a
promo, but I paid for it and my 17 bucks could have been much better spent
elsewhere. YMMV
Take care,
mt
From: Bill VanLoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313 <313@hyperreal.org>
Subject: Re: [313] Ulrich Schnauss
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 23:02:00 -0500
on 2/21/02 10:53 PM, Mike Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have to be honest, this album just plain sucks.
>
> Yeah, is does have that CCO IDM hip-hop thing going, but where Arovane's
> Tides is uplifting yet still slightly menacing, Ulrich's stuff is just
plain
> cheddar. Between the Schnauss record and a couple other releases, by
> confidence in CCO has been serious shaken. They were completely on point
> until the last year. CCO was my favorite label of 2000.
Complete disclosure: I have a 7" on City Centre Offices that came out at
the
end of last year.
I thought Ulrich Schnauss's record was uplifting and beautiful. It has a
real sense of hope and joy about it, which is rare in these days and times.
Sure, it's a fine line between happy and cheesy for some people, but for my
money, it's on the good side of that line.
My biggest criticism is that it's a little obvious in a few spots (a drum
loop or two that I could have done without), but on the whole, i think it's
lovely.
> That being said, I still think Christian Kleine is one of the most
important
> and unrecognized figures in German electronic music.
We can agree on that one. His guitar playing on "Tides" is great, as is
much
of the rest of his work.
Hmm, not a lot of 313 relevance here, I suppose. Sorry.
BVL
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