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Summary: Good, yet Uneventful Sounding
Comment: I can't really say anymore about this album. I first found out about Plastikman while I was on YouTube searching for Aphex Twin videos, and stumbled upon a video of Disconnect. I loved the music and hoped the album would be even better. Turns out that the entire album is very odd, almost annoyingly. I give it a 4 star rating because the CD is an absolute trip to listen to if you're trying to fall asleep.
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Summary: To disconect my brain
Comment: I bought this CD 2 days ago largely based on reviews it got here. It is close to being one of the strangest CD's I've heard. I have a mixed reaction to it. On one hand I don't like it, on the other hand it seems to be the only CD I want to listen to. I've played it at least 10 times since I got it. I'm listening to it now. Rather than being a collection of "songs" it really is just one track or rather one piece of music divided up into tracks. It is minimalistic, it is dark. In some ways it reminds me of Zoviet France, particularly "The decriminalization of country music", or "Digilogue". So do I like it very much, or do I dislike it? I cannot tell. I suppose this is a common reaction to "new" music which has no counterpart in our expectation of what music is. To me that means it is possibly good but our taste has to be adjusted to appreciate what is good about it.
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Summary: Advancement of Consumed.
Comment: This album is very reminiscent of Consumed in tone and idea. The first track is very enveloping, and definitely worth a listen to... especially in the dark.
The album itself is the sort of low-key techno Hawtin popularized with Consumed and other albums of his earlier period. All the while, it may be similar, the advancements in technology keep the sound fresh and interesting.
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Summary: This is one album I can feel proud of
Comment: This album has really hit home for me, just the type of the mood I was looking for in an album.
People dont know what minimal is really about do the... this type of album is all about style. Its dosent matter how elaborate music is if it hasent got style. The taste and the style you have to put down to make an album this good is impresive. If you could make great tunes with simple beats, you could even be making them up by sheer luck... thats not happening... this type of minimal has had a slow evolution and this album reflects it, very precisely calculated... if productions and beats overlayed themselves in chaos this would never sound original, how it supposed to sound, it would be just something else.
Bret S Carreras... man do you even like plastikman and what his about? no problem bro just not your cup of tea. A lot of people go to plastikman because of the hype. This album aint for everyone but... it hits home for a lot of us.
Why complain about beats reapeating themselves from track to track... this is a concept album, its supposed to be that way, this aint no recolection of tracks this is a family. The album has a cohesive theme to it that goes into gradual crechendo during the album, those I are the type of things I pick-up quickly and apreacite.
I've had this album on since it came out (have to much music to listen to anyway) and didnt pay much attention to it. Right now Im hypnotized by it.
Dark, electric, dosent try to hard, takes it time, magikal, introspective, paranoic, deatached, elegant, drug like, lonely,
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Summary: Richie is the master of catchy, minimal music.
Comment: I am always amazed by the difference between the frenetic Richie Hawtin DJ sets and his moody, minimal Plastikman albums. This album exemplifies the difference between his two personalities. There are a few slow tracks that don't grab me but the rest are sensational. When I listen very intellectually to the music I am stunned by how little music there is and yet how great it sounds. Richie has always written long songs that develop so subtley that you hardly notice yourself being sucked in. I abandon the intellect and enjoy the music and celebrate animate life. Richie has used wonderul vocals, effected of course, in the form of acid aphorisms and laments of the demise of his relationship with his girlfriend. Beautiful as always.
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![Closer. Plastikman Tracks: Ask Yourself, Mind Encode, Lost, Disconnect, Slow Poke [Twilight Zone Mix], Headcase, Ping Pong, Mind In Rewind, I No, I Don't Know](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ZAN92C67L._SL160_.jpg)
