Olaf Rupp - Fuzzy Logic 2LP xx1993 One notable point of departure

One notable point of departure is Rob's drumming -- more formidably rockoid than his predecessor's

Deathstar has been a project about the microphone — in Marina Rosenfeld’s hands

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without being chin-stroke-y and avoids any of the dude-ish amp worship stuff

Olaf Rupp - Fuzzy Logic 2LP xx1993 One notable point of departureGerman guitarist Olaf Rupp combines elements of traditional flamenco (rasgueados, arpeggios, picados) with the fractured cadences of Derek Bailey, fusing them together with a blast furnace tone recalling John Lee Hooker's most blown out extremes. And yet, despite decades of concerts and releases on FMP and Emanem, often with marquee grabbing collaborators like John Zorn, Peter Brtzmann, Butch Morris, Paul Lovens and Lol Coxhill, Rupp's music is