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Photodementia - Fig. 04

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I think Awepittance makes a really good point about the production on Photodementia.

I don't care what anyone says, I am not going to believe that either release had more than a nominal influence from Monolith unless there is irrefutable proof, because I just don't think he's capable of making something like Fig. 03. Neither emotionally/creatively or in production chops.

Honestly, I think it would make a lot of sense if the shitty tracks on youtube that didnt make it to release were Monolith's, and nothing else. first, to throw people off the scent of it being AFX, without ruining the quality of the physical release. second, because I dont believe monolith is capible of doing something stylistically that AFX hasn't done first, and it makes total sense that he would be in on Photodementia being AFX, and thinking "oh hey I should ape this too" and going off and making shallow photodementia sound-alikes.

If I am wrong, and proof surfaces that monolith made all the tracks, then I will absolutely have more respect for him.

and if that is the case, and monolith keeps up with WATMM, then I owe him an apology. Otherwise though...

 

edit: I should specify though, I don't in fact have solid belief that this is afx either, I'm just going into hypotheticals here

Its more than likely Dave alone or Dave and co.

Some of the pads/bass sounds off both the records are exactly the same or very close from Welcome. He has the production chops and c'mon man, will you stop saying his work lacks emotion or creativity. The last two tracks on volume 1 are alone enough to stand up with the rephlex crowd and be better than 95% of WATMMs producers.

 

 

Live, but if you don't see creativity or emotion in that, you just have a stick up your ass about the dude.

 

(end rant)

so yeah, I got this album, love it.

Stop wanking this dude off and get around listening some more music to widen your palette. You sound like this is your end of the line in music terms and you dismiss everyone who doesn't agree with you as tone deaf or ignorant. Just fuck off already.

Chillout. How do you know what someones musical pallette is? If you look back it's the nature of the thread, speculation, arguments, disagreements. Wonder if you'd say the same thing to audio if he was talking about your music?
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I don't think Monolith worked alone, a collaboration between him and Gerard Donald now seems highly probable, either as edits or reworks of some kind... But Donald is definitely involved. I bet there's a (real) third person involved as well.

The photographer of Photodementia images is an astronomer in Bonn, and has a heavy presence of the Max-Planck institute for Physics on his CV including lectures in astrophysics there. Why is this important? Because Donald has collaborated with astrophysics students from The Max-Planck institute on his recent projects so the probability that two (or in this case three) successful young scientists from a similar area of physics working on the same institute just happen to be all involved in distinct Detroit sounding electro projects seems very low to me.

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And before you say it, yes, I know how sick I am for stalking all these people.

 

I think the image for fig. 4 is taken by this guy in 2006

 

I wonder if Richard paid him...

Interesting, The only person credited on the cd is this guy.

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Redruth Grand Master

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ellen o’maley adds something really special to the photodementia. you can hear her unique style shining through on these most recent recordings. especially tracs like postpre and letech

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Cover reminds me of Goo, plus the blonde chick looks like Kim Gordon who has the black chick's sunglasses.

Not sure about the chick part...
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Hmm so far I think that I like Fig. 03 better. It seems that less is happening into Fig. 04 and I'm not feeling all the synth lines. Maybe it'll get better at some point.

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It seems that less is happening into Fig. 04

 

That's what I thought too, it's less varied and uses ABCABC structures more. And when checking the playing time, Fig. 03 does 11 songs in less time than Fig. 04 does 7.

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juno fucked me with their flimsy packaging. i did manage to score the fig 03 cassette from them though.

 

waiting for a replacement...

I've always found they never pack em tight enough, Like leaving large open spaces in the package so the records/cds/etc.. bounce about a willy nilly like. :(

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Rephlex HQ needs to stop taking drugs while making all this shit up.

 

Instead of their philosophy of "only the music counts, no identities and ego's", they sure fuck up with these fake extended bio's, not making it more anonymous but making it more annoying. It's exactly the opposite of what Grant said in his interview during the Tuss identity crisis period

So much this. Just drop the whole mystery thing and release some goddam music.

Just a bit of fun init, dont think they trying that hard, just being silly and hinting at concepts.... and when the music this good who gives a

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Rephlex HQ needs to stop taking drugs while making all this shit up.

 

Instead of their philosophy of "only the music counts, no identities and ego's", they sure fuck up with these fake extended bio's, not making it more anonymous but making it more annoying. It's exactly the opposite of what Grant said in his interview during the Tuss identity crisis period

So much this. Just drop the whole mystery thing and release some goddam music.

Just a bit of fun init, dont think they trying that hard, just being silly and hinting at concepts.... and when the music this good who gives a

It doesn't bother me THAT much. But you have to admit that it kind goes against the whole "it's all about the music" thing.

 

The music sure is amazing though

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also, the cd says "(Fig. 04c)" and that 'c' is throwing me off. must be interchangeable, CD or cassette... three new tracks is nice though:

 

05 Japanese Robonik

06 Boxcia

20 Refractivation

 

i'm in

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