if you can get your hands on a copy of, "the web of life" [PF 038] http://www.discogs.com/release/10289 ... there's a great selection of earlier sinewave/metamorphic, dan curtin tracks. this may prove easier then tracking down the individual EP's. check dan's work as apogee on peacefrog as well
cheers, lrh > > From: Matt MacQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/03 Wed AM 01:32:24 EST > To: 313 <313@hyperreal.org>, > Phonopsia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: (313) Dan Curtin Sun EP - was Re: (313) the funky 808 drummer > > >> tons of old Dan Curtin stuff could qualify in my book too.. any of > >> tracks from 3rd from the Sun EP on 33rpm/Sinwave (forgot the track > >> titles, but dang some of those are mad 808 "workouts") > > > > Absolutely! I've only just recently discovered that this is what it > > is. I've > > known those songs forever, but never but names to beats until the > > other day. > > Is it hard to find? Good pressings to seek out? Bad to avoid? Any > > other info > > I should know before plungeing in? > > Hmm well this is kind of a curious piece, so I got home and dug out my > copy. I somehow was lucky enough to get one of the clear/pale green > vinyl copies on 33rpm (was this the pressing before Sinewave perhaps? > [Not to be confused with Synewave!]). Picked up mine at Record Time > ages ago... but I think they're hard (but not impossible) to find used, > maybe eBay. Here are pics of the only 2 versions of artwork I know > about: > > http://www.discogs.com/view_images/?type=R&wid=81837 > > etching on the inside is DKB - RA331 (is that Damon Booker's > initials or what?) > inscription reads "put the needle to the groove and hear virtual > reality" ... with NSC logo > > I have no idea of the # of these that came out... also there is no > mention of Sinewave mine, maybe it was before? But it's got the "Black > Market Promotion" label, which I also remember seeing on flyers in > Detroit during that time.. anyone? The logo is vaguely familiar, it's > a black and white graphic of a guy looks like he might be doing a > wicked dance move with 2 fists kind of in the air? ha.. in fact now I > remember, I think the record sleeve had a Black Market Promotions 3x5 > "promo reply card" card in the jacket that I must have lost somewhere > along the way, bah. > > Okay all pressing bullsh!t aside, this is one phenomenal 4-tracker of > early Dan Curtin... (1992?) jaw-dropping change ups, sequences, drum > programming, tons of 808, searing synth sounds and all around pure > electronic techno funk. You can hear where Titonton took off from > hearing this type of stuff and that whole Ohio/Columbus / Charles Noel > / 21/22 and early Morgan Geist could even be traced back to these kind > of sounds as a major influence. It's the detroit moods and crazy > funky drum and synth programming.. he was the first to lay it down > quite like this in such an incredible forceful way.. a tinge of > breakbeat in it too. I must say I feel lucky to have it and it's one > of my very favorites in the detroit end of my crates. Really a unique > and totally funked-out piece of techno. > > Dan C. if you are lurking out there somewhere, was this your first > record? How did it all go down? > > peace, > Matt MacQueen > > > > >
