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in reply to: FLA over the last 15 years. #317

IED – good revisit of their mid-90s guitar-slinging style

Echgenetic/Echoes – brilliant, holds up against their best stuff; the original songs on Echoes are quite a surprise: an almost poppy FLA

Airmech/Warmech – serviceable atmospheric stuff; call them Delerium

Wake Up the Coma – slapdash, feels like a slightly desperate attempt to go viral, especially ‘Amadeus’. Would probably rank as my least favorite FLA.

Mechanical Soul – solid course correction after Coma. Optimistic about the next one (if there is one coming…)

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in reply to: Nerve War (cleo redux) #316

I mean it’s great to have on CD but it’s a mess. A lot of the tracks are ripped from Youtube (‘Stahl’ even has a bit of ‘Digital Tension Dementia’ at the beginning, which is from its Youtube source). But a number of tracks sound fine, so at least some of the tracks were sourced from tape. I’m wondering why they used some tracks from tape, and some from Youtube. I would think the band wasn’t involved but Leeb say for an interview for the liner notes, so I dunno.

I guess you can say it reproduces the questionably fidelity of a lot of electronic music self-released on cassette in the 1980s.

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