Pole - CD1: C/D?

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You mean, there's more?

David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:27 (twenty years ago) link

and pole 3 is a damned good record... it's a very solid album and works perfectly if you listen to it after 1 and 2...

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

I'd rank the numbered Pole records 3-1-2.

Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:34 (twenty years ago) link

(Or yellow-blue-red.)

Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

i must have another listen to 3 then. my order goes Red(played at the wrong speed) > Blue > yellow

colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:16 (twenty years ago) link

Andy's ranking matches mine...altho I think R is the underrated gem in the catalog (maybe my favorite right now but then I've heard it so much less.)

Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:33 (twenty years ago) link

"R" doesn't have work as good as a whole as "1" because the "variations" are so different, but every track on "R" is superb, which I can't say even about "1". Berndt Friedmann's remix on "Raum 1" is perhaps better than anything he or Pole have ever produced.

By the way, have any of you heard the Nonplace Urban Field (=Friedmann) 1996 EP "Raum für Notizen"? It has a quite similar sound to Pole's records, especially on the first track. I think that's where Pole might've gotten some of his inspiration from.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 28 August 2003 08:23 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...
'vive

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 April 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago) link

It sort of is what it is, isn't it? Classic or dud seems sort of beside the point. I can't imagine owning all three (or is it 4 or 5 now) of Betke's records, but the one I have is interesting to listen to on headphones at certain times, I guess.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 04:24 (twenty years ago) link

I think it's 5.

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 April 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link

i have CD3
it's good for walking around in a mall

Dude (The Yellow Dart), Friday, 16 April 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

i could live with just the first one and that quarks remix he did on "voices in my lunchbox." so pretty much everyone who posted up there is right.

el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 16 April 2004 06:47 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
3 is still awesome while walking in a mall.

Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 26 December 2005 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Such a great record. I still feel like there's some weird kinship between this and Rome's s/t on Thrill Jockey.

GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link

I'd really like some recommendations for quiet electronic dub.

Stuff a bit like this, especially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbD4jHBmyzo

Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link

I'd recommend checking out Nonplace Urban Field and other projects by Burnt Friedman. He has a similar approach to dub as Pole, though he's more versatile and often less serious. NUF's "Whimp" (from the Raum für Notizen minialbum) sounds like a blueprint for the Pole type of minimal dub, even though it came out 2 years before Pole's debut. Friedman's (now defunct) label Incoming! also released plenty of good experimental dub and downtempo stuff back in the 90s.

Besides the NUF and Incoming! records, this album by Friedman & co (released on Pole's label) is wonderful piece of quiet dub too. And my favourite dub album on ~scape is Kit Clayton's Nek Sanalet, it's just as good as Pole's best work. (Nek Sanalet is not as quiet as Pole though, IMO it's closer to Stay Down by 2 Lone Swordsmen.)

Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I was really in the mood to listen to CD1 while I did computer stuff. But then my computer spent a full 30 minutes updating various software and now I'm just ready to listen to Stick Men With Ray Guns while punching the monitor rhythmically.

I hate Tig Notaro so much I gave Louis C.K. a dollar (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 October 2012 06:19 (eleven years ago) link

Ahh okay here we go. Raum is playing and I'm under a calm blue ocean.

I hate Tig Notaro so much I gave Louis C.K. a dollar (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 October 2012 06:33 (eleven years ago) link


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