Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:08:09 -0800
From: Daniel James <djames @ serv.net>
Subject: Re: [ILF] Guaranteed (not to end)

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:03:41AM -0800, Don Z wrote:

> > I simply felt some of the music coming from them
> > at that time lacked pure instrumentation and had
> > too much of a synthesized, almost cheesy feel
> 
> Huh?  I'm really perplexed by that statement, Lo.  If
> someone says that Level 42 is "too synthesized" or
> "cheesy", I immediately think of the early stuff, not
> the later material.  It's the Early Tapes thru True
> Colours albums which contain the most
> Casio-keyboard-sounding, tired-70's-disco, synthetic
> instrumentation.  The later stuff features guitar much
> more prominently.

I'd take that so mean "sequenced" not "synthesized".  Yeah the early stuff
had a bit of a Casio sound, but that's probably more because of the
equipment of the day/stuff-they-could-afford.  The later stuff certainly
felt more quantized though.

Not that it sucked...  I like both the early and the later stuff, and the
stuff in the middle, although I have a strong preference for the Pursuit
of Accidents period.