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Every year around this time we like to do our friends from around the world a favor and print some of their email reviews on our front page. These are people we've met on our world wide travels in search of journalistic greatness and international acclaim and adulation. Some of them we know only through correspondence, others we have known personally for decades. Some started off as readers such as yourselves, and slowly became a small but important part of the usounds artistic collective. Our first review come from Jorde Mikula (Yor-day My-Cool-Ya), a Hungarian friend of Ric Befara's from way back. He's a great guy but a little off-- which is why we love him so much. From: Jorde Mikula ok ill write it. but the check better be in the mail...anyway... hey btw I ran into Caesaria yesterday in Paris. She says hi. She was looking so good...peace Subject: PJ Harvey is this desire This album is by far the motherfucking goddamned best fucking albums I ever played myself in my whole life. Fucking R*O*C*K*S. Hard man. Fucking rocks hard. Some drum n bass, some hip-hop textures, a slow sultry cigarette voice...I am telling you, brothers of the underground, she sounds like fucking like the smiths with a post-junglist jonny marr except their lead singer is nick cave except he's a girl...or something like that. Of course I must note that the CD itself is quite inharmonious, one might even say ugly. Really, the art direction is regrettably poor on the whole project; there is really no denying that. Also the first track really bugged me. I mean R*E*A*L*L*Y bugged me a shitload. So on the whole you might say this is a really fucked up album. I was often feeling that it was messing with my head, and that craziness has set in once again. I feel like PJ Harvey has a problem with me and that I can't defend myself in this kangaroo court. Fuck you, usounds. Fuck the whole thing. It's over.
the next reviews come from Rory Michael Ganders of Bristol, England. He's the singer in a soft rock group called "populations." Someone met him years ago in a bar and he's kept in touch with the office ever since... From: RM Ganders Hey guys, how are you? Good to hear from you again. It's been a while and frankly I was getting a little worried. in fact, I dreamed last week that your centres of balance were all off, throwing you into a really horrible karmic conflict. I hope your "higher power" is looking out for you, I know mine is. That reminds me, my new CD, Love's Alias is available now via mail order. I'll send the details later. Anyway, on to the reviews... untouchable outcaste beats volume one Oh I loved this. Some of the tracks were so soothing, so centering, so transcendent. And then others were wild! Primal rhythms that made my heart race! This album is an inspired collection of indian (and indian-esque) dance music. I recommend it to anyone who can appreciate the spirit of the tiger: at times fierce! but other times sensual and seductive... The Upsetter In Dub This album is an excellent collection of Lee Perry singles. Some of which were the first Jamaican singles ever released here in England, eventually paving the way for Bob Marley. Actually my band, Populations, does a really special cover of "Redemption Song." While some of the tracks on the album I wasn't so keen on, others reminded me what good dub is all about: the curtain of simplicity covering a window to the human soul.
Our next reviewer is Yves Arles, a Frenchman who had a brief but torrid affair with our own Shelly Petworth. Yves gained minor notoriety in France when he posted pictures of his own genitals along with 99 theses on Star Trek on the bulletin boards of Sorbonne where he was once a student. He claimed it was a protest against the internet, which he calls a "cruel and inhumane device designed to enslave us all." Still, he manages to email us fairly regularly... from: Yves usually my taste in the American rap runs towards the underground scenes of Manhattan and SF, but sometimes when the ladies come you need something...a little easier on the ears for them...something to get them in the party mood but also feel confidant, that every decision is theirs. Our final reviews come from Dario Lassi. He's our biggest fan we've got on the internet, and often sends us 3-4 page reviews of our reviews on albums. The strange part is, his reviews tend to be fairly simple. Dario, who dropped out of Yale to "pursue other things," lives in Santa Clara. California, with his parents. from: dario here they are dudes Outkast Aquemini: Cool. Good beats, some lame tracks. B gastr del sol Uprgrade and Afterlife: very cool. ultra mellow. cool. A- Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers: the true king. broke my heart so good. my heart pumps the blood of the bluseman when I hear these sweet, soulful sounds. the best. A+ USOUNDS || 1998 |
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