OFF : CD Waste of Money

[Stephen Swann]

Jon Browne writes:
>
> Got anything by Pete Namlook on his Fax label? He puts out more
> ambient/techno records in three months than the Hawks do in two decades.
> Except it's largely cack! One particlar ambient effort I bought is about
> an hour of a piano playing one note every 45 seconds or so..............
> .....<plung>............................................................
> ........................................<plung>.........................
> ........................................................................
> ...........<plung>......................................................
> ..................................etc!
>
> No matter how ripped I am, it still stinks!

This sort of reminds me of my undergrad days, when I discovered that
my university had a music library (woo woo).  I was in the mood at the
time to discover more synth/ambient stuff like Jarre/Vangelis/TD/etc,
so I asked them what they had in the way of electronic music.  I was
disappointed by the selection, but they did have a large number of
tapes from the MIT "Experimental Music Lab".  I thought *that* might
be pretty cool...  yeah right.  ;-)

It was pretty much exactly as you described above, except they
occasionally left sine wave generators running to fill in the
empty space between.  Geeks just shouldn't be let near musical
instruments, Robert Fripp notwithstanding.  ;-)

Steve
swann at panix.com