momirottenwrote
Sun, 06 Sep 2009proper philistine review. i totally agree with UFOtoZION, stick to your dj trend instead of trying to sound interesting.

imatherswrote
Sat, 05 Sep 2009If I had infinite space to write, I would have gotten into David Tudor (and more into what the music sounds like); as it is, talking about who he is seemed like a waste given how little he's mentioned in the essay and that five minutes starting with Wikipedia will tell you what you need to know. What I was reviewing wasn't just the music - given the weight this release clearly puts on the essay (again, it's the cover art!) I don't feel writing just about the music IS addressing it properly. ... More

Bleepwrote
Sat, 05 Sep 2009Good points made at times, but you use one sentence to describe the music. How can you review something when you've not addressed properly what it is you're reviewing? I can understand why you may feel vitriolic about the approach that Hecker makes, but please, at least tell us about the music as well. There's not even any reference to David Tudor, which might at least give us an idea.

mbrwrote
Sat, 05 Sep 2009Thanks for the review, I'd been meaning to buy this and now I definitely will. I'm glad to hear that Mego continues to provoke. Although I've not had the time to listen to this release, I've found for lots of music that it's somtimes better to hear with your own ears and throw context to the wind. Who cares? Some times you can just listen to the music and enjoy, which I've done with many Mego releases.

bareklikwrote
Sat, 05 Sep 2009I completely agree with the well written review and with Ian's posted comments. Art for art's sake is little more than an excuse for justifying self-indulgence. Sometimes self-indulgence can be interesting if it's at least creative and new (I'm thinking of Alva Noto's prototype and Ryoji Ikeda's 1000 fragments in particular). But if this were supposed to be creative or inventive, why does it sound like the most difficult moments Ursula Bogener (jan jelinek?), GESCOM, SND, ATOMtm, Steve Reich,... More

_sim_wrote
Fri, 04 Sep 2009this reminds me of those paintings where some acid-tripping hippie has randomly splattered paint all over the canvas hehe..