this is the voice of re:mote induction.Thursday, July 31, 2003
antigen shift - implicit structure.
this is one of those albums which really hasn't got as much of a listen as it should. been carrying it around in the daily CD folder for a wee while now. started listening to it on my way home last night, but it seems my headphones have attained a status of fuckedness. which is always frustrating. so only able to hear music in one ear was of course no use. dug out a secondary pair of headphones, one of those sets you actually get with the CD unit, as opposed to the slightly better ones i bought to replace a previous dead pair. and yet, i've digressed, in a way that wasn't really intended. but then headphone status is always relevant!
with the replacement headphones in place i looped through antigen shift one and a half times. i think it fair to say that the sound fits into that whole rhythm noise style. which there has been a lot of flooding the market for a while. a glut which really became too much. has it calmed down now or am i just blocking it out? anyway. from experience this seems like a pretty decent album. the word tribal seems wrong. but in this case it is more appropriate than saying it has a techno influence. something which really does seem to be a little too prominent in a lot of the stuff i have picked up recently.
not to say that techno influences are bad, i can appreciate a techno influence here or there. but generic, repetitive, bangin techno that causes flash backs to the most boring dance floors i've been on, with little relevance to home listening. which leaves me with a point, one would hope, that this antigen shift is decent listening. solid rhythms and beats. not genre re-defining, a desperate concept that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment. but certainly decent.
god knows the genre could be doing with some re-defining, but its been awhile since any of us really heard anything that could honestly get that description. anything else is just hype. here is to the next hybrid and something completely different. amen.
this is one of those albums which really hasn't got as much of a listen as it should. been carrying it around in the daily CD folder for a wee while now. started listening to it on my way home last night, but it seems my headphones have attained a status of fuckedness. which is always frustrating. so only able to hear music in one ear was of course no use. dug out a secondary pair of headphones, one of those sets you actually get with the CD unit, as opposed to the slightly better ones i bought to replace a previous dead pair. and yet, i've digressed, in a way that wasn't really intended. but then headphone status is always relevant!
with the replacement headphones in place i looped through antigen shift one and a half times. i think it fair to say that the sound fits into that whole rhythm noise style. which there has been a lot of flooding the market for a while. a glut which really became too much. has it calmed down now or am i just blocking it out? anyway. from experience this seems like a pretty decent album. the word tribal seems wrong. but in this case it is more appropriate than saying it has a techno influence. something which really does seem to be a little too prominent in a lot of the stuff i have picked up recently.
not to say that techno influences are bad, i can appreciate a techno influence here or there. but generic, repetitive, bangin techno that causes flash backs to the most boring dance floors i've been on, with little relevance to home listening. which leaves me with a point, one would hope, that this antigen shift is decent listening. solid rhythms and beats. not genre re-defining, a desperate concept that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment. but certainly decent.
god knows the genre could be doing with some re-defining, but its been awhile since any of us really heard anything that could honestly get that description. anything else is just hype. here is to the next hybrid and something completely different. amen.
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