Yeah the driving memoirs is really nice ... but I'm talking about the old school cassette releases from way before Morgan had any records out ...
There's something really haunting and affecting about this music. Metro Area is much more for the dancefloor, that explores where disco was heading before DISCO SUCKS killed it off as an aboveground phenomenon... On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, John Bush wrote: > I don't know which tracks you're talking about, but his Clear LP from 1997 > (The Driving Memoirs) is an absolute masterpiece in my book, though very > much in the minimalist, jazzy vein described (dismissed? ;> ) below. There > are so many great ideas on that album, at least three or four per track, > that some producers could've made a career out of; unfortunately, except for > some of the other Environ material, it looks to have been a bit of a > one-off. Maybe I'm just a sucker for that sound, but it's one of the only > LPs I keep returning to -- so much so that Metro Area hasn't really > impressed me in comparison (though live was a different story...) > >
