Comments on: Basic Channel – Radiance

By: The Cover Art Re-Emerges in Two Ways | NYLVI - Your Place for Vinyl!

The Cover Art Re-Emerges in Two Ways | NYLVI - Your Place for Vinyl! — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:54:58 +0000

[...] Format, or have a look at some of the releases below. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto: Revep EP Basic Channel – Radiance Data 70 – Space Loops, Volume One and Two Kraftwerk – Neon Lights 12″ Kraftwerk: Pocket [...]

By: Selenaru Negrea

Selenaru Negrea — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:25:47 +0000

I like this onix effect!

By: peter

peter — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:02:03 +0000

Well, not to another service. Just jumped ship back into the lonely world of iTunes and playing tunes for myself. This might sound a bit silly, but, I always felt like I was playing music for my stats and not for me. Silly, I know. But, well, yeah. You know.

By: colin

colin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:47:00 +0000

… I would have never bought any of these releases based on their cover art, but I would have if I had heard them in a club, or how I discovered them (on-line) because the music was just so bloody good I didn’t care what the album covers looked like…

Which fits snugly with the low profile ethos of their work.

Last.fm

Shame! I’m not able to install where I work, but what I do most days is play my library or similar artists or friends radio stations. I find I prefer that to having to decide what to play much of the time. You say “jumped ship” – have you signed up with another service?

By: peter

peter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:32:47 +0000

I do agree with you there Colin…the unassuming (and often time lackluster) nature of the graphic work from BC/R&S/R1-5 releases does make the music better because it places all the attention on the music. I guess another way to put it is that I would have never bought any of these releases based on their cover art, but I would have if I had heard them in a club, or how I discovered them (on-line) because the music was just so bloody good I didn’t care what the album covers looked like…

As for LastFM, well, I pulled another about face and just jumped ship. Started a new position, and couldn’t install the LastFM scrobbler, and didn’t want to go home and rip CDs or play music all night and try to remember what I played during the day to keep my stats up. Yeah. So, that’s the long & short of it.

By: colin

colin — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:12:16 +0000

I sort of like the unassuming design approach of the R&S stuff, kind of makes the wonder of the music more impressive, but maybe that’s just me being perverse! The BC releases, well, the tins I love and the grey anonymity of the digipaks that replaced them I guess is intended to be associated with the Hard Wax store. Not lovely, but I think the strength of the music creates a reality distortion field of some sort. What happened to you on last.fm Peter?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:17:49 +0000

I’m glad you had the guts to say it, Colin, because I’ve never been impressed with the design work that’s come out of the Basic Channel camp (some R&S releases excluded). I know it’s from a different era, et cetera, et cetera, but, well, the visual work has never matched up with the quality of the music, in my opinion.

I will say this though: that is one gorgeous slab of vinyl.