Is it wrong that I just realized that track 2 of What??? is just Was??? slowed down to half speed?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 23 July 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
You know, I have loved this for a long time, and know it's well regarded, but isn't it strange that no one ever talks about the Bo Anders Persson side of this split (which, to my knowledge, has never been reissued, while the Folke Rabe side has been reissued twice)? I've never heard it, as I've never plunked down a hundred bucks for an original copy of this record. Has anyone heard it? Is it awesome?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 10 January 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
It's great. Post Reich speech tape-loop layering piece. Well paired with the Rabe piece. Been on YouTube for a while.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Djx5D5soG8
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:14 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! Gonna check this out. Was sorta hoping it wasn't great, because I don't need to be even more tempted to own this record on vinyl, but, err...
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 10 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.folkerabe.se/pages/articles/eng/OnWhat-e.html
very detailed essay from folke rabe's site about how he planned and recorded "was?"
― na (NA), Monday, 28 November 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
I've just remembered this, there's a copy of "Was?" in the background of one of the scenes in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder movie, "Acht Stunden sind kein Tag" - in a boozy wedding reception/party scene!
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 9 June 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
RIP
― Gunpowder Julius (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 10:24 (six years ago) link