Jump to content

BUNKUM

Members Plus
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,410

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by BUNKUM

    Nmesh - Pharma (double cassette)

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    ^damn, wish I'd read this before the cassette sold out. Just had a quick scan through a couple of tracks and they even sounded great through my phone speaker. That was enough to convince me to buy.

     

    I was expecting something more generic dreamy vapour wavy but got a 90s Virgin era FSOL vibe from one track. Also liked where White Lodge Simulation (Odd Nosdam Remix) was going.

     

    Will have to content myself with the digitals

    Vinyl Represses!!

    in Autechre

    Posted

     

    sadly my records are mostly just a collection these days.. most of my listening is at work or in transit

     

    it's still nice to have those ae albums though

     

    Same

     

    it's pretty much the only thing I like about my job these days lol

    Same

    The Fax Label

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

     

     

     

     

    How did you listen to all these, just stream through Youtube etc or did you already own them? Would love a proper digital release of everything on Bandcamp, how likely that is with Pete no longer with us, I don't know.

     

    For some reason I always think of Fax releases just being long beatless ambient tracks but there seems to be a great variety on there. I like Sea Biscuit and am quite tempted to buy the reissue of that on Bandcamp, I forget the was originally a Fax release.

     

    I grabbed most of them from Soulseek, although there are a fair few on Bandcamp these days - Fires of Ork, all of Lorenzo Montana's stuff, a bunch more. After his death it appears the right reverted to the original artists (and in the case of collabs, the collaborating artists appear to have been granted rights to re-release). Nobody really knows what's going on with Pete's estate, it seems to be quite complicated.

     

    Yeah, for a long time I was under the impression that FAX was either long beatless ambient stuff, or dubby/ethnic-tinged ambient stuff, but there's drum'n'bass, modern classical, techno, trance, some properly avant-garde weird shit, plus a fair bit of that early IDM sounding stuff too. Sea Biscuit is a fantastic record, although the new reissue is on Psychonavigation who have come into a bit of trouble with FAX releases before - Peter Benisch had to get lawyers out to stop one reissue, and they also put out a reissue of a Tetsu Inoue record, despite Inoue being missing and not having spoken to his closest friends in many years - so I'd probably steer clear of the label.

     

    Of possible interest to those who don't know, Ear/Rational who worked with Pete and did US distro for FAX put out a compilation in tribute after he did, and ended up starting up a new label. They've put out a few things that were lined up for FAX but never got issued, as well as continuing some of the series that were on the label (Thomas P. Heckmann's Lost Tales, Autumn of Communion, etc.), plus other new stuff. It's called Carpe Sonum and is definitely worth a look, as it's the closest thing to continuing the legacy that we're likely to get.

    Wow, cheers, plenty there to check out. That also reminded me I have the fantastic Polydeuces by Autumn of Communtion which is Fax related.

     

    Feel like I've heard warnings about Psychonavigation before on here, something to do with Neo Ouija?

    The Fax Label

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    From Within seems to be on everyones list, have just bought that.

     

    There's a fair amount of stuff similar to the Artificial Intelligence series out there on labels like ART, Rephlex, Apollo, GPR and New Electronica (off the top of my head). For example The 7th Plain, which was Luke Slater on GPR, was fantastic ambient techno. Check out Chronicles, which came out last year, which was a sort of "best of" with some unreleased tracks. Maybe you already know of these?

    The Fax Label

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    I recently completed a run through of FAX's '90s stuff (not a tremendous fan of much of the stuff from this century - Namlook got quite into minimal techno type stuff, but I prefer the more organic feel of the earlier material) and these were my highlights:

     

    Air I+II

    Silence I+II

    Dreamfish I+II

     

    From Within

    Sad World II

    Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit

    Alien Community II

    Namlook V

    Wechselspannung

    Outland I + II

    Bill Laswell - Outer Dark

    Jet Chamber II

    Dark Side of the Moog V-VIII

    HIA/Namlook - SHADO I+II

    Peter Benisch - Waiting for Snow

    Jochem Paap - Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598 I+II

    Psychonavigation IV

     

    What surprised me is how IDM-ish a lot of it is. From the handful of releases I knew I was expecting some downtempo type stuff, but there are plenty of Artificial Intelligence-era Warp beats in there.

     

    How did you listen to all these, just stream through Youtube etc or did you already own them? Would love a proper digital release of everything on Bandcamp, how likely that is with Pete no longer with us, I don't know.

     

    For some reason I always think of Fax releases just being long beatless ambient tracks but there seems to be a great variety on there. I like Sea Biscuit and am quite tempted to buy the reissue of that on Bandcamp, I forget the was originally a Fax release. 

    The Fax Label

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by BUNKUM

    Been wanting to get into the Fax releases for a while now, missed them all in the 90's, but never knew where to start, so the recommendations above seem a good place.

     

    Anyway, I found Beatport have a load of releases that aren't at any other digital seller (Bleep, Bandcamp etc), although I hate that site and find it very difficult to search for albums, everything is set up for tracks.

    Vinyl Represses!!

    in Autechre

    Posted

    Ha...

     

     

    Dear Customer

     
    We are very sorry but the last email we sent was in error.
     
    A section of customers are affected by delayed shipping but you purchase is shipping as normal, so please disregard.
     
    Bleep Support
     
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.