(fax) X review

[Alexander S.Kunz]

Hello Dave @ Fax Usa & everyone else

05-Mrz-2005 11:40, you wrote:

> PETE NAMLOOK & KLAUS SCHULZE - DARK SIDE OF THE MOOG X (CD)

Just listening to it for the first time, and as I reach Part IV, I thought
I start typing along what my first impression is.

This X, oh yes, its certainly different to IX. And that is a good thing -
at least for me. :-)

I have to admit, I find Pete Namlook's voice in the opener pretty bad. He
has that typical hessian-german accent, it was cool in "Gebirge" on FoO
somehow, but here... hmmmm... I know that accent (being german and born in
Hessen) and it does not work for me, because it amuses me too much to hear
it. Glad that its mangled by some heavy effects (pitch shifting and
whatnot).

The Parts I thru III are floating around spacious, minimal, even isolated
at times, very "untypical" for a DSOTM album, very good stuff!

Part IV returns to the more classical sequencing and you clearly hear the
Schulze touch here - and you know me from my previous comments, thats were
it gets a bit boring for me (I mean, the pads & chords are spacious, lush
and expansive... which means... same procedure as last release... same
procedure as every release - I beg your pardon).

Part V starts with incredibly beautiful glassy pad sounds, some howling
background noises, an intense feeling of drifting lost in space,
loneliness... - WOW, this is really really good & gives me goose bumps.

Finally, Part VI, guitar on a massive bed of fat analogue pads, the only
problem is, its going nowhere, it doesn't "close the book", literally
spoken, it just ends at some point, poof, thats it. Leaves me unsatisfied.

Summary after the first impression: I definitely like it more than #9.
Those who declared #9 the holy grail of the DSOTM series, well, judge for
yourself.


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Best regards,
 Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981)

Deliplayer2 is playing: "Astro Know Me Domina (Part IV)" by The Dark Side Of The Moog
     from the  album 'The Dark Side Of The Moog X'