Re: Mailbag

[jondr@sco.COM]

IED sez:
>(IED was a little dazed to find his nascency so
>benignly, not to say fondly, recalled by such a formidable persona as
>Drukman, but he nevertheless enjoyed the, er, tribute)

how could i be anything other than misty-eyed when recalling the days
when love-hounds was a jungle of intellectual (and sometimes less than
intellectual) battles.  you had to have a rapier-sharp mind to deal
with it.  nowadays it's all kinder and gentler and i for one can't
fucking stand it.

>Now, as someone just posted the other day, if only there
>were a good disKussion after all this nostalgic banter...

well, of course, times are lean with the lack of new Kate ProduKT, but
one can hope.  i have been unable to locate a copy of the Brazil
soundtrack, so i can't comment (much as i would love to) on Kate's
rendition of the title track.

recently i went back to my Kate box set as i was doing some research
for possible samples to take.  in the process, i rediscovered some
old friends (the dreaming & the ninth wave) and made the discovery
that i really can't stand most of The Sensual World any more.  title
track and The Fog were about as much as i could deal with.  i made it
through 30 seconds of Love & Anger, 5 seconds of Reaching Out, and
most of Heads We're Dancing.  i kind of nodded off during side two, so
i really should go back and give it another chance.

has anyone else gone back and relistened intently to past Kate work to
see if their reactions have changed at all?

i made a track using samples from "sat in your lap" - a piano chord,
"i just begin" and also two of the incredible indescribable wordless
"ah" phrases from "night scented stock."  the result is pretty
special, and light years away from obvious crap like utah saints.  i'm
trying to work out a deal to get it released, and of course i'll let
y'all know when that happens.  (i might have to drop the piano chord
tho - that seems to be the bit that everyone hates.)

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Jon Drukman (an emulsifier)                                       jondr@sco.com
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