Album Club: 01.05.2012 Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Stalker (1995)

[MartinT]

I'm streaming it now to the 'big rig'. I'll post my thoughts later.

[Reid Malenfant]

Get those Eton drivers moving Martin


Just voted myself & had to give it a 9/10 as I already have the CD I see someone gave it a 10

[Audioman]

Those people who gave it 8,9 and 10 must be on some good stuff. Or perhaps went down the pub first.

[Reid Malenfant]

Those people who gave it 8,9 and 10 must be on some good stuff. Or perhaps went down the pub first.

I'm always on good stuff I did mention I gave it a 9 simply because I couldn't give it 10 as I already have the CD

[Bazil]

When do the guitars and singing kick in

[Martinh]

When do the guitars and singing kick in

I thought that too.

I suppose that if you are chilling out, you don't want anything exciting to happen, do you?

Martin

[Welder]

Well, it’s interesting.
I’m not a great ambient sounds fan. I check out what I can of Mark’s music posts usually, mainly because even if the sounds don’t quite get my feet tapping, the recording quality seems in general to be above the usual beat based stuff I prefer.
But, then again I’ve got proper speakers and much of this stuff just doesn’t get sorted with “I got bass at 100Hz”, or “ leeme just adjust my wardrobes”.

Would I buy it?

Hmm, maybe at the right price.

Can I listen to it without needing drugs to cope with another track, or receding into a Prog Rock fog of bad taste and fond memories?

Sure, but like anything else, I’ve got to be in the right mood and I’m not one for mood altering with chemicals these days; nope, not even the liquid variety.

Overall, more interesting than much of the stuff that gets “I lurv it” here but being a dancing fool with a preference for da funk and a bit of ya get down I cant give no rave votes here.

6/10

[Alex_UK]

Nice to see you're still alive John (Welder) - I was just about to wake the St Bernard up.

Meanwhile... I keep trying to play this, and I do like ambient, but even I am waiting for something exciting to happen... (Perhaps no blonde girly wailing is the problem! ) I'll give it another try tomorrow after a couple of sherbets.

[RichB]

A 3 from me... and I'm normally partially to a bit of ambient stuff but this wasnt really enough to keep me interested.

Well produced what i heard though so maybe its where my head is at right now... :

[MartinT]

A fascinating exercise, Mark. I listened and, like some others here, kept thinking that a detectable tune or melody would emerge. This is pure mood creation of a sort that I don't have anywhere in my collection. Even Tangerine Dream create a tune that can be vaguely followed, but not this. My brain kept trying and failed.

On the sound quality front, it's excellently 'assembled' (I have no understanding of how this was created and/or on what instruments played apart from synthesiser) and the bass is truly extended and thunderous in parts. My quad 11" Etons were certainly well worked out by the end of it.

On the basis that I would not choose to buy music like this to listen to I'll give it 3/10, but I thank you for giving me some insight into a quite alien (to me) branch of music.