FarFlung techincal question/Grenas apology?

[mike coleman]

I've got Myth!! I've got Myrth!!  thank's again Jon
Now if I just had  Meth!!


On 1/11/10, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, mike coleman wrote:
>
>> oh good, despite the timewarp my switched cd's didn't mess him up.
>> I dropped out of 11 th grade Jon, but if Brian's still running around in
>> Marina Del Rey, and releasing music I'm willling to chase him and Tommy
>> too
>> I don't have "when science fails" or "Nine Pin Body" so any comments as to
>> how deep my food rations should now go- appreciated
>>
>
>        I don't have _When Science Fails_--I must hunt it down for
> Kompletism reasons--but I do have _Nine Pin Body_. If you happen to have one
> of the boot versions of the never-released _Myth of Solid Ground_ there is
> very little on NPB you don't already have. If you don't have that though
> then there are several awesome crunchy heavy tracks about things coming
> through portholes, wormholes, dimensional divides, and so on which I would
> thoroughly recommend and not wish to be without, though there is also some
> filler stuff that sounds as if Tommy decided one day that Can wasn't
> minimalist enough and to make that point he'd record something with even
> less variation *really quietly*. Bracketed by the creeping riff-horrors from
> outer space, though, so you still finish the record with a grin on your face
> and a tendency to twitch at unexpected noises. does that help?
>
> On 1/5/10, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
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>
>        <snip>
>
>  (ii) I had it `roughly right' that `Raven' as it stands is the correct
>>> full
>>> track #1, `Sonic Evaporation' is the following track with the "I'm
>>> disintegrating..." refrain as far as the unexpected multicoloured organ
>>> cascade, which is `Helianthus', `Candied Electronic Atmospheres' is what
>>> happens next and `Alius Orbis' starts with the crushing downwards riff
>>> that
>>> we can also identify because it's been in a live set or two like the
>>> Strange
>>> Daze CD-R. `The Way the Sky Is' is of course on _So Many Minds_ so we
>>> know
>>> that one, and `(It's Not A Bad Dream)' refers to the forty-minute circus
>>> organ outtro we all know and dread. (Dare *you* listen to the thing
>>> carefully enough to see if it repeats anywhere? I'm not sure it's looped,
>>> I
>>> think they may actually have played it.)
>>>
>>
>        A postscript, on relistening to this it seems to me that really, the
> `disintegration' refrain must belong to `Candied Electronic Atmospheres' as
> the section that precedes it just has too much in it that doesn't relate to
> be one track. So now I would say `Raven' as far as the end of the female
> vocal section, `Sonic Evaporation' for what follows as far as the organ,
> which is `Helianthus' as I say, then the breakout and build-up from there
> `Candied Electronic Atmospheres'. The extra track number should probably be
> in `Sonic Evaporation' somewhere, if we agree that #8 is the outtro to `The
> Way the Sky Is'. I do wish I could have recovered what I originally thought
> and McGibbony's response though. Yours,
>        Jon (who seems to be closing in on real-time)
>
>
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