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> Mark Bennett wrote:
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> > Don't care much for what I've heard of this, which I'll admit isn't all
> > that much. The Japanese stuff makes my skin crawl.
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> I'm also not overly fond of that fiddly, precious dot-dash minimalism of
> most of the Japanese artists. But Toshimaru Nakamura can really be good
> with collaborators outside of that scene.
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> I think there's a warmth, almost a humanism to the Berlin artists. I'm not
> big on electronics; somebody with a set-up like Keith Rowe's, well you can
> get so many sounds that it almost seems like cheating to me. I much prefer
> the people who are basically exploring the limits of an acoustic instrument
> like Doerner, or somebody like Andrea Neumann were the electronics are
> limited to a means of amplification and focus.
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> You should check out the two Phosphor discs on Potlatch, at least. Or
> anything with Burkhard Beins on drums.
>
> > You make a compelling case. I'll give them a listen and try to stop
> being an aging crank.
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