smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | Christopher <plattc@optonline.net> |
| Subject | Re: Now what? |
| Date | Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:14:49 -0500 |
[Part 1 text/plain iso-8859-1 (1.3 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
> At 11:42 PM 12/3/2003 -0800, ronald and karen sanchez wrote:
> >So anyone buy any good records lately?
>
> Yeah, plus a ton of excellent eMusic acquisitions, but what I've been
> listening to all week long is a disc that I got in a bi-monthly swap on
> another list. (I feel really stupid, because I lost the packaging and I
> therefore actually have no idea at all who sent me this!) It's called
> "Mellow...?" and it's a really rather brilliant mix of current electronic
> stuff along the ambient pop side (I have to check out Zero 7 immediately,
> and their track also reminds me that I seem to have lost my copy of Air's
> MOON SAFARI somewhere and I really must replace it immediately)
<snip>
Zero 7's "Simple Things" was my absolute fave last year. It's rare that I
obsess on an album, but that one really got under my skin. Beautiful
textures, but more importantly, it's got a real organic vibe, with actual
acoustic instruments -- strings, horns, jangly guitars -- not cold,
heartless blips and bleeps (which do have their place of course). And some
of the guest vocals are really killer. I hope the fact that they happened
to hit right at the crest of the "moody, loungy electronica" wave doesn't
mean we won't hear more from them.
Christopher
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.