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10/04/2003: "music non stop"

Found that recent Ellen Allien album cheap while trawling a used cd bin at Other Music last nite, probably thrown out by some hipstah who thought it was like, so two months ago, and I dig it, really pretty beats. (Not sure if I agree w/ that review I read recently, I forget where, that said that the last name was 'alone': 'alone' is 'allein' auf Deutsch not 'allien', and in German the order of the i and the e is crucial, though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) Dunno about her voice, though -- kind of Bjorkish but without the vocal range, isn't it? By turns breathy and slippery -- ecch. I like voices that are a little deeper and warmer and grainier, like that awesome anonymous Jurgen Paape 'So Weit Wie Nach Nie' voice. German voices! God I luv German voices in music, from Neubauten to Kraftwerk to that terrible German hip-hop album I've got stowed in a box somewhere. I remember I once tried to convince my snickering priss of an Italian language teacher that German was the most romantic language ever invented. She spun around from the chalkboard and said sneeringly to me in front of the class 'So how does one say 'I love you' in German?' and I responded 'Ich liebe dich!' and she said 'Ew, that's so ugly! Italian is the language of loooooove, in Italian we say 'ti amo!' And I was like 'In German we say 'fuck off'' and that was the end of my Italian-learning experience I'm afraid.