robert miles

CD shooting party

Ink’s party leaders Blair, Hague, Kennedy and The voice of reason gathered at a secret location to pass judgement, track by track, on the new manifestos from the music hustings

ROBERT MILES – ORGANIK on SALT

No one liked children. Miles’, that is, not EMF’s version. Now the atmospheric one is back, at long last.

TSBOL

BLAIR: Is that a flute? This sounds like more committed jazz.
HAGUE: Fast Show jazz, more like.
BLAIR: (Reading track list with a note of horror) There are a lot of tracks of music for playing dungeons and dragons to here, aren’t there?.
KENNEDY: This is alright for going to sleep to…
HAGUE: Too annoying to sleep to. The press handout says this is a radical departure, because he’s come back darker from his travels. (Rolling eyes) Like Paul Simon, presumably. Wouldn’t play this at my house. Maybe whilst reading a book.
KENNEDY: Not a good album opening. Its just classics on 45 or background dinner party music. Watch Eastenders on mute with it on see if they move to the music.

SEPARATION

HAGUE: I like this; it has better beats
BLAIR: But there are other, far more interesting ambient records out there. Theres just no need for this.
Ink: The track proves so unstimulating, the conversation wanders onto breast feeding
BLAIR: He says ‘I am an artist .I speak through my music. Whatever I do the music will be there: growing, learning, endless." Well, track three certainly is bloody endless. Can we move on?.
HAGUE: Been done before - but better - by other people. Tired old sounds.
THE VOICE OF REASON: I hope he paid the Indians for their chanting.