mr mac attack wrote: >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?
think it was the promo matt but I am not sure because i have the "earth & nightfall" john b. & open house 12" too and it was also the same on clear vinyl with the same logo and clouds in background. For those of you with the commercial copies, the color was actually not black but a greenish-brown?? vinyl color...hold it up to the light! >[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: it's a tough one to find for collectors apparently. Dan pointed me to an auction where the record went for $300...similar to Retroactive records that go on ebay for crazy prices...sux for Dan cause he still hasn't received a dime for that record to this day and it was his first release. Anyone know what Damon Booker is up to these days? I take it he didn't keep a lot of friends since he never paid his artists. >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.. yup this one is a masterpiece!...one of my all time top 10 techno records. It was proto broken beat too for sure...another man who really took the Detroit sound to a different realm and really pioneered his own interpretation of it. speaking of which, another genius who doesn't get mentioned enough, Steve "Stasis" Pickton has just released a 3XLP called Past Movements n Peacefrog...there are also unreleased Stasis tracks on it too! buy on sight! this december weather is making me pull out my old techno records - minto ===== down low music http://downlowmusic.org UPCOMING DEC & JAN: East Island vs The Moderator dL011 Iridite Productions "The Acceptable Face of Elitist Techno" dL012 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
