cptgaio

Indeed, there are no longer even the half seasons, and one swallow certainly doesn't make a spring.

Indeed, I also find it quite strange all this hostility towards Petrucci and the others: but this is also DeBaser.

Certo, invia pure il testo e procederò con la traduzione.

and "defect" not "diffetto" ;-)

Ps: I made a mistake in a sentence: "Teardrop" and the others are in "Mezzanine," obviously. I wanted to write "even if it contained" and not "that had." Just a small typo.

Well, at the time I listened to it quite a bit ("100th Window," I mean) but it wore me out in a few months: I find it a regressive work compared to "Mezzanine" (which, as the MA themselves said in an interview back then, besides, in a certain sense, in the title, was "a step back" from "Protection," which had peaks like "Teardrop" as well as "Angel" and "Inertia Creeps" that are lacking in the hundredth window). I find enlightening a comment from Azzo, in a previous review of "Heligoland," where he stated that the MA have the merit of "removing" (in arrangements and various "backgrounds") rather than "adding" as too many do in electronic music (and also in other fields): he found that this worked even in the last two albums (the hundredth and this one), while I think they have reached the point where they are "removing" a bit too much and should stop (even if here, I repeat, the tendency seems to have slowed down), because minimalism is fine but it risks going into nothingness :-D.
Anyway, from what I see, read, hear, and "perceive" around, "100th Window" is an album that has "divided" listeners quite a bit (some adore it, others hate it): I remain pretty indifferent to it... that's its biggest flaw. From my perspective, of course.
@UhUh: no problem, blame whatever you want ;-)

Not even under torture, Bartle ;-) also because, as mentioned, it would be hard for me to provide evidence and it would go against my "ethics" :-D Maybe it was just my "impression."

I believe the issue predates, Bartle. In my opinion, Internet and thus DeBaser is born "old" compared to the thousands of publications that have occurred over the years (for example, the review I linked of Sexy comes from the print world, but that publication was so famous that it was immediately caught) through print (more or less periodic), so even unintentionally some "repetition" can happen, and searching for them with a magnifying glass would be an unreasonable task. A reviewer, whose name I won’t mention to avoid unnecessary controversies, often reminded me of things I used to read in the '80s and '90s on "Mucchio Selvaggio": the problem there is that, in cases like these (given that there is no "telematic speed" involved), it is also difficult to prove it. I believe that simply, the Internet world must renounce the Ius (or Jus?) primae noctis as, for example, the often, too superficially, mistreated, Wikipedia has been doing for years.

Among other things, that review had a decidedly "interesting" "discussion" ;-)