Pole - CD1: C/D?

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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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