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  1. Listen kids, I wasn't comparing records. I was comparing behavior: the bitching right after the release of drukqs. And specifically the behavior you punks are displaying in this thread. Now please get on with your lives, because I really don't have the time to listen to your whining about this record anymore.

    The behavior comparison is irrelevant unless you're comparing the records, because you could have said that it was like people being disappointed about the new Radiohead album, or any such situation where there was disappointment for a release that a lot of people were apprehensive about. You chose three brilliant, initially misunderstood releases by RDJ though, which, whether you intended it to or not, is saying that this is on the same level.

     

    I don't blame Monolith by any means, because he is talented in his own way, and he doesn't deserve this. It's Rephlex's fault that it's been received this way, and Rephlex's alone. They set it up as a big release, put it out near the end of the year in an extremely sparse year, and it just wasn't good enough to stand up to the pressure.

     

    Let's talk again in a couple of years and then decide how relevant your current 'insights' are.

     

    And what makes you think that Rephlex set it up as a big release? Have I missed some billboards? Commercials? They must be marketing wizards having no cash to spend on marketing, but having people to believe their releases are big anyways. Brilliant work. Perhaps they're being run by the holy Steve Jobs. In stores soon: the new iRephlex. I have no idea what it does other than giving you some sense of being ridiculed.

  2. Remember the bitching after releasing Drukqs?

    Are you fucking kidding me? You're honestly comparing this to Drukqs, and you're accusing people disappointed with Welcome of trolling?

    Drukqs: timeless, intricate, beautiful, still holding up like it was new after 10 years

    Welcome: basic, fun for a laugh and bit of dancing, already sounded dated on the day it was released.

     

    It's not like Welcome is going to sound better with time, so that is totally ridiculous.

     

    Listen kids, I wasn't comparing records. I was comparing behavior: the bitching right after the release of drukqs. And specifically the behavior you punks are displaying in this thread. Now please get on with your lives, because I really don't have the time to listen to your whining about this record anymore.

  3. awesome album.

    considering the EP,i expected that listening to the album in one go would make the the tracks lose their energy as it goes on, which it does, but on their own they are wicked :).

     

    boomkat was pretty slow on delivery

    Seconded.

     

    For me, this is not a one-sitting album. But the individual tracks definitely match the expectations. There are so many things happening in the individual tracks, listening to everything in one sitting just creates an overload. My feeble mind just can't handle al the twists and turns.

    This album is a grower. I don't understand all the negativity in this thread, really.

  4. REally digging Moby's remix of krakpot atm. Apart from the basskick it hasn't got much to do with the original (which is a classic by itself), but this track has all the ingredients what made Moby good in the beginning of the nineties. This track oozes euphoric xtc. This fits right up there with Go.

     

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    disappointed with the "mixed into one track" albums. you might as well activate cross fade in itunes. basically the same.

  5. i was in the middle of my teenage angst period and very susceptible to anything which had three cords and depressive lyrics. and like a true idm'er couldn't fit in with the grunge crowd. the drunken jesus look just wasn't mine to wear. but looking back at it, it had some empowering effect on all the potheads, i guess. in an instant they all became musicians in one way or another. which is always good.

  6. 1991 was the year dorky potheads took over the world. suddenly, teenage angst was the norm. if you weren't a dork, you weren't cool. and vice versa. to be totally honest, i still don't understand why it got as big as it did.

     

    http://gu.com/p/32x8p

     

    That they looked not so much like up-and-coming rock stars as kids whose parents had left them to their own devices – and whose activities may have included bouncing on the beds and making prank phone calls – was heartening, as I was thoroughly sick of the slick interviews I'd been encountering with top-40 rock outfits. Our conversation encompassed homemade tattoos and why Cobain chose the K symbol for his, representing the Washington indie label of the same consonant; that night's free-for-the-fans Metallica party at Madison Square Gardens that they were eager to get into; and how much they loved the trailblazing Sonic Youth.

     

    The fact that within the next few years Nirvana would pave the way for Sonic Youth and other like-minded alternative groups to find a larger audience, as Nevermind toppled pop giant Michael Jackson from his number one spot on the US Billboard charts, was impossible to forecast from this early 90s vantage point, where Bryan Adams's "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" had been dominating both British and American airwaves for weeks. There was something in this Seattle-based band's songs, live performance and attitude that quickly set the rock 'n' roll industry on its ear, so that what had once been considered an underground sound would emerge to wreak havoc on conventional record chart rankings and traditional music business models.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlWVZjL9WD4

     

    http://www.guardian....n-seattle-music

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