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I don't know why i keep reading OOR-magazine (a dutch magazine that seems to get be getting worse and worse with each issue)... but i flipped through the latest issue, and noticed a Draft 7:30-review. Usually all idm-artists (aphex twin, squarepusher, plaid, other autechre) are placed in the "dance" category, but i noticed they had placed Draft 7:30 in the "avant garde" category. I pondered that fact for a while, and decided it's probably alot more fitting than Dance :-) But anyway, positive review. The guy starts by complaining about the fact he had to review a cassettetape instead of a cd, then goes on to say how he was planning to write a negative review (because he apparantly didn't like confield), but by the time the tape was over he was convinced by the album. "somehow autechre have done it again, every click, swoosh and other little sound is at exactly the right place. And the music quickly found a way into my brain where it will remain until long after this cassette is broken" |
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nice! is it the OOR of this month? the most recent one? i'll go and have a look today :) |
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i just can't wait to get it! Perhaps tomorrow it's available, as i bought 26 mixes the friday before, March 21. |
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I hate Oor. what a crap magazine. interviews that last a page - yay. anyway, they placed the confield review in the avant-garde section too. |
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yeah i saw it in the stores today :-) The most recent one. Indeed i guess this means draft 7:30 might also already be out in holland? Plato has a tendency of selling records that are released on a monday, already on friday. |
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almost all better cd-stores do that. |
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"anyway, they placed the confield review in the avant-garde section too." they did? oh... i guess i wasn't into autechre enough then to notice such details ;-) |
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yup, they did. :) |
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i guess you are like me :-p We both don't like oor, but we're both still reading it ;-) Well atleast i don't waste my money on it anymore. I browse it in the store, and if there's something really interesting i read it in the library. |
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wtf kind of nonsense is ??? "trip-hop" ? "22-03-2003" ? and at "free record shop" ??? |
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hehe, what would you call it? |
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lol! triphop ;-) Well what do you expect? It's free record shop. Today i wanted to buy 2 cd's there (so they could have really made some big money from me ;-), but when i gave the 2 empty boxes to the guy behind the counter, he couldn't find the cd for one of them! You'd think in a RECORD store they'd atleast have their cd's organised well enough. But he just searched for awhile and in the end just said: "uh i can't find this one." So i ended up only getting underworld). |
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underworld?? did you give it a listen before buying it? not impressive...its one of those records you can put on while in room with people that are bothered with idm :) |
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no, i'm now listening to it for the first time. But i really liked that Two Months Off-single. I wanted to have that one anyway, no matter what. And actually i think it's pretty good. Alot simpler than idm, but still a good listen. I'm enjoying it. It sounds like a live-show. Underworld are really good in building tension towards a really big climax. Discovering TwoMonthsOff is here in an extended 9 minute version was a nice surprise too :-) |
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my brother works at the Plato in The Hague. LOTS of cd's go missing, simply because the people who work there put them back wrong. same with cd-cases, although thats mostly customers. he showed me the huge amount of cd's without cases in the back. I even could take what I wanted. I went back to my parents house (who live near The Hague) that evening with about 40 cd's. :) no, I never read Oor anymore. I used to read it even though I hated it, but I stopped doing that about 2 years ago, because, well, I hate it. :P and I can find more and better info on the internet. |
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aha, must be your intuition hehe i dont like it that much, but you're right there-its underworld so its nice to have it :) actually im surelly going to buy their next album even though i didnt like this one that much... |
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"LOTS of cd's go missing, simply because the people who work there put them back wrong" Hmpf... what a waste of money. I know some cd's are really without any information on it. But i think in most cases the artist and album-title are also featured on the disc itself. If one employee would sit down with all those lost cd's for an hour or two, i bet he could find the right case for at least 90% of them (and then put the cd back where it belongs). "I even could take what I wanted. I went back to my parents house (who live near The Hague) that evening with about 40 cd's. :)" That is really nice though! I wish my brother had such a cool job :-p (my brother wants to be a music-journalist, and his biggest dream is to write for Oor, haha...!) "and I can find more and better info on the internet" yes exactly, i've stopped buying magazines altogether because of the internet. |
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"its underworld so its nice to have it :)" exactly. Underworld is an awesome group. I think Born Slippy was the first electronic track i ever really liked. I can't really imagine skipping one of their albums :-) |
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its not as easy as it seems. people misplace the cd-cases all the time. where are you going to start looking? where could it be? well, everywhere. there is NO way you can find 90% within two hours. actually, they asked me to work there - without them knowing I was his brother. but I live in Utrecht, so not very handy. oh well. |
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"people misplace the cd-cases all the time. where are you going to start looking? where could it be? well, everywhere." lol, is it really that bad? Whenever i go to a recordstore to find a specific record... most of the times it's exactly where i'd expect it to be. But then again... i'm probably not browsing the most popular sections... sections that are looked at by lots of people, must also get more cd's misplaced. I'd love to work in a recordstore :-) If they would pay for the costs of travelling i wouldn't even mind having to go to another city for it... probably. |
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cd-cases get misplaced and they just get plain stolen. |
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"and they just get plain stolen." ah yes... another nice side-effect of illegal downloading. |
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after a few dissapointing buyings after reading a review in the Oor I stopped reading it. Grumpyhead sucks big time |
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what I really hated about Oor was the fucking makeover - "OH SHIT! we're not hip anymore!! MAKE-OVER!! EMERGENCY MAKE-OVER!!!" and what did they come up with..? a new logo. and "reading time" per article. that last one is especially l4m0r. |
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"and "reading time" per article." i don't really understand the point of that :-s But the make-over was definitely a good idea imo! (and surely alot more changed than just the logo :-p). Just look back at some of the old issues now... so old-fashioned. The new layout is nothing special, but atleast it fits in 2003 |
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oor has decent interviews every now and then. i'll see if i can pick this one up and translate it to english |
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