"Strangeworld" has some ok songs on it, but it appears that he didn't
really have any kind or producer or sound engineer for the tracks. Much
like what that blog mentions, it's just a handful of demo songs.

"To Live" seems to suffer from the same flaws, but it's a much better
album in my opinion since "Strangeworld" was just "See Me Riding" part
two. The album has a few tracks on it which make the album drag on too
long since they sound too similair (tracks 2, 3, 14, 15), but without
them and a little better mixing, Rev really could have gained more
recognition for it.

So has anyone heard Vega's "Station" yet? It comes out in a few weeks,
but there's already advance copies of it floating on P2P servers. Just
haven't had the time to download it yet.

I'm kind of worried that Vega is starting to run out of ideas as well.
The new track that was posted here sounded like he was just trying to
imitate the last stuff he did with Pan Sonic. Hopefully the entire album
doesn't end up sounding like that.

We'll wait and see.




Stefan wrote:

> Hi Vincent
>
> I'm a huge Martin Rev fan but let's face it - the guy has done some
> pretty crappy tracks too. If I'd gotten a copy of 'Strangeworld' I'd
> probably have seconds thoughts about releasing it too, especially if
> I was running a small indielabel struggling to survive. I bought the
> record immediately, as I always do, but wasn't particularly thrilled
> with what was coming from my speakers. It sounded like 'See Me Ridin'
> with heavy heavy delay-reverb. Poor, unimaginative and uninspired.
> Perhaps some people think it great... I don't.
>
> 'To Live' is a quite another story - I love it as much as the first
> Suicide album. I didn't expect Martin to deliver such a brilliant CD
> after all the rubbish he'd been putting out. Shit... great tunes,
> great production... still play it often!
>
> Best
>
> //Stefan
>
> --- In Revega@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Revega%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "vic00001" <vincent.pappalardo@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > There's a blog entry of someone of "Sahko recordings" who talks one
> > year ago about their release of Strangeworld, at
> > http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2006/02.
> <http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2006/02.>
> > It looks rather terrifying to see that CDs can stay unreleased for
> > years... Couldnt that change with these mp3s, Itunes and all that ?
> > I mean artists to release their songs themselves if record
> companies
> > are too slow ?
> > If I get it well by that blog, the guy received the masterpiece
> > Strangeworld in 97, released it 3 years later, then received
> another
> > Rev unreleased album in 2000, and writes in 2006 that he "maybe
> > should check it out once more"... There's something going wrong
> > somewhere!
> > I dont know if I must hope or not that the unreleased album was "To
> > Live", well I think it must have been, with the Suicide success I
> > imagine some companies do issue Rev or Vega albums automatically,
> or
> > nothing means nothing anymore in this world.
> > Anyway, even it looks like a positive music time with the future
> > Vega and these great Cheyenne tracks, I still wonder: is there
> > unreleased material sleeping for years because record companies
> dont
> > care ? Or because the musicians dont want to issue them now ? Does
> > anyonme know how works the music business and can explain more to
> > me ?
> > Thanks,
> > Vincent
> >
>
>