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'Who Needs Alice Anyway?' by Fun-Tourist (01.12.00)
release #92
"Who needs alice anyway?" is a marvellous track that adds iem-flavors to
something that's a little like top-of-the-pops-trance basis. This is
Fun-Tourist's second milk-single following partly the same path as Face
On/Take One (which has gained quite amounts of radio playing here in
Finland by the way): both the melody and drums are on the same line
competing to take over the tune. The first three minutes are totally built
on playing with beats and loops. I think there's even a loop sampled from
Alice Deejay along the vocoder-lines and Kraftwerk-like sequences.
Fun-Tourist is a magnificent composer even seeing from the musically
traditional point of view. In this genre of music (though I feel awkward
when I say the word "genre") the rhythmitechnical side (the twisted beat
experiments and tempo trickery explorations, you know what i'm talking
about) often takes larger part of the tune leaving the melodic part more
on the background. This isn't the case on Fun-Tourist's tunes despite the
fact that the wicked beats and rhythmic effects are a major content in
them - especially in the 3-minute intro of "Who needs alice anyway?". This
tune is definitely composed with a smile on the face as after the intro of
crazy re-triggering of drum loops with varying effects on them the tempo
rises and a whole other tune merges from this: an ultimate rave track. Or
that's what i thought to myself when I first heard this tune at the
Koneisto-festival last summer. I've never got myself that swetty raving to
a tune. Anyway, after the rave part the tune gets all wicked and twisted
again as the drums eat themself with the rhythmic trickery and some
melodies stay to play fading the track away. A magnificent, hardly
categorisable track both for party and listening.
[95%] (8:44, 12.6MB)
-S.Louhela
'D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Mixes/Remixes)' by Ceniq (28.03.01)
ep/lp release #18
1. D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Bulentoi Mix) [3.8MB]
2. D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Roger That Jr. Radio Edit 1) [5.9MB]
3. D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Roger That Jr. Radio Edit 2) [8.7MB]
4. D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Vhiiula Mix) [3.9MB]
5. D.Exiguus Was Wrong (C Side) [3.6MB]
Review by O.Paasovaara:
I have heard many mixes in my life but some of the tracks on this EP made
me wonder what the word "mix" actually means. Obviously the concept is
likewise a bit blurry to Roger That Jr. whose mixes have absolutely
nothing to do with the original "D. Exiguus Was Wrong". I'm not saying
that it's a bad thing, quite the opposite. Then again, Lime and Vhiiula
went the other way and made somewhat more typical mixes which balances the
EP nicely.
The EP starts off with Lime's nice and mellow track. After listening to
those relaxing pads and steady beat I wondered what the hell is going on
when RTJ's "Radio Mix 1" began to play. The broken speech synth and stoned
harddrive sounds just made me go nanners. The third track is also from
RTJ's obviously deviated mind and continues with the "original? what
original?" line. This one isn't plain experimental noise like the second
track but more like noisy ambient with something that could perhaps be
described as melody. Moving on to the fourth track was quite a shock for
me as it went back to the more typical way of remixing. Vhiiula's mix is a
bit like Lime's but only a tad. Lime's mix is mellow and steady all the
way but Vhiiula went for the original's style mixing up a calm melody with
medium fast beats. The fifth and last piece on this mixes & remixes EP is
by the man himself, Ceniq. Again the lets-forget-D.-Exiguus approach is
there. This "C Side" is something I didn't expect from Ceniq because it's
quite aggressive and without a proper melody. Strangely this one turned
out to be my favourite of the five tunes.
Long story short "D. Exiguus Was Wrong (Mixes & Remixes)" is a collection
of tracks that have almost nothing to do with each other except for the
fact that they are music (at least some of them). In my opinion that is
the reason why the EP works so well. "Brilliant" is one of the words that
come to my mind at the moment.
Review by Jan Robbe:
1. Ceniq - D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Bulentoi Mix)
Lime/Bulentoi did the first remix of ceniq's excellent tune. The result is
a fine ambient piece with a lot of strings, and a typical relaxed
everchanging beat (samples reminded me of BrothomStates). No innovation,
though a nice tune.
84%
2. Ceniq - D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Roger That Jr. Radio Edit 1)
3. Ceniq - D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Roger That Jr. Radio Edit 2)
These are different, we're going way experimental here. Packed with
infinite sound effects, Roger That Jr. managed to create 2 original pieces
that have atmosphere written all over it. The second edit is more melodic
and perhaps more mysterious than the first, which I think has better
effects... Definately worth your downloading time if you're into
experiments...
85%
87%
4. Ceniq - D.Exiguus Was Wrong (Vhiiula Mix)
Vhiiula brings us a happy piano-tune with complicated breaks and a lot of
samples. Subtle tempochanges and dsp effects make up for the repetitive
melody. I love the breaks... :)
89%
5. Ceniq - D.Exiguus Was Wrong (C Side)
C Side brings us back to the experimental side of this EP. The beats and
bassline (?) are very chaotic, but in a good way. Quality haunting noisy
sound effects. Short but long enough (2:37), and a nice ending.
92%
Incoming releases:
Singles coming from O.Paasovaara (Amon/Kail/A), Luminfire and S.Liuski
(8bit Rockers, Illusion).
Remember also to check out Fun-tourists new 7" on Worm Interface
(http://www.worminterface.com/)
The new web pages are on their way too. With a new messageboard and a link
page.
http://milk.scene.org
