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November 30, 2004

I just don't know!

Neotropic's most recent album, White Rabbits, seemed like a not particularly distinctive addition to their catalog, until "Magpies" came on. Is this trip hop? Is it IDM? Is it experimental downtempo? I just don't know! (See also "don't care".) "Feeling Remote" is like the second coming of Woob, the best ambient act EVER, and in fact, the latter 2/3 of the album changed my mind about the "not particularly distinctive" part.

Neotropic - Magpies
Neotropic - Feeling Remote

Woob's two em:t albums are long out of print (although they pop up on ebay and elsewhere, but you may as well give these tracks a listen, and pine for the days when Woob was the soundtrack to every single altered state experience in a tri-state area. These two tracks are meant to be listened to back to back. From the album 4495.

Woob - Gate
Woob - Pondlife

Posted by Scotto at November 30, 2004 09:00 AM

Comments

i can think of more states than those three.

Posted by: teno at November 30, 2004 05:01 PM

heh, well let's be clear, i didn't mean to suggest those three states were necessarily contiguous...

Posted by: Scotto at December 1, 2004 10:28 AM

King Black Acid's Sunlit still gets my vote as best ambient ever ...

Posted by: Debra at December 3, 2004 11:18 AM

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