tales from an ordinary world

1999-03-01

A manager-dude from one of the Faculties came to talk to me and a co-worker this morning. He saw all the CDs in my office, and mentioned how he used to run a record shop back in the 70's - they'd bought a CD player in 1980 (ten years before our family first got one...), and turfed a lot of records, but he still had about 500 of them, including the rare white vinyl version of the White Album, and so on. It reminded me of how one of the managery/senior systems analyst dudes at my previous job had worked as an intern and all sorts of stuff before moving into the IT industry. These days, heaps of people (like myself) go straight into the land of IT. No wonder we have no life.

The new Underground Lovers CD, Cold Feeling (apparently coined from something Ralf Hutter of legendary 70's/80's electronic band Kraftwerk had said in an interview once, describing their music) was finally out, so of course I bought it. It's great listening, although I think they could have done a bit more with it - it's a bit...sameish. I also picked up something by some Japanese guy who calls himself Cornelius and plays most of the instruments, etc. etc. but also gets a bit of help from people like Sean O'Hagan from Stereolab. If you liked Buffalo Daughter's Captain Vapour Athletes, you'll prolly like this too - it's got those odd, experimentally sort of tracks, mixed in with a few nice loud guitary ones - the shop had mentioned My Bloody Valentine as one of the similarities/influences, although I didn't quite agree.