From artist Sent Fri, Dec 5th 1997, 18:48
From artist Sent Fri, Dec 5th 1997, 18:48
>>[please, no flames you photekheds] that wasn't a flame, this isn't a flame. check this smiley! :-) >>>This seems to be the 'my beats kick major ass, but i need to work on >>>my melodic devolpment' >>this is nonsense, what kind of reviewing is this? >it's called 'honest reviewing' nah, it's called attacking blue for not being red >i hate these people who live by the 'if you don't have anything nice to >say...' rule when writing reviews. >thats just for media types who want to kiss the asses of the >artists/labels involved with the release. naturally, but the essence of what i was saying was that mr parkes DOES NOT need to 'work on his melodic development' because what he's doing is what he's doing - of course it's your privilege to dislike this kind of material but it ISN'T because of any lack of talent on mr parkes' part. your criticism was unfounded and wide of the mark. >i'd be the first to admit that photek's earlier works were excellent. yeah i have most of his stuff myself, i would say the most interesting eps to me would be ni ten ichi ryu and t'raenon. >i'm just saying that i was expecting more of a progression on this one. or do you mean 'more of the same but with better production'? >as you said yourself, this track(s) has 'sparse insturmentation' (though >it's more like no insturmentation). i think the beauty of mr parkes' tunes is that he can say so much, more than most, in a simple twist of rhythm and a strategically placed percussion note >>sure someone round here will agree he isn't going for something THAT >>simplistic.. >so, dot=simplistic? >pick up the hab ep sometime. well i haven't heard a LOT of dot tunes but i'm not into it myself. i think it's twee - not for me. >>so please lay off mr parkes, >I never was laying on mr parkes. >i was simply saying that i'd enjoy it more had he expanded on those >tracks with some melodic backing. but this isn't criticism, this isn't real reviewing. that's why i hold no value on the reviews that are posted here, because 90% of the time it's just some guy's opinion which basically boils down to 'i don't like it because..' or 'this is wicked, get it'. there's no point reviewing types of music that you aren't into, that serves no purpose for anyone whatsoever. a good review is something that makes me think about the music in a new way, or sheds light on something i hadn't considered before. more importantly than anything, it evokes an image and atmosphere for the music. good reviewing doesn't use an endless piecing together of buzzwords and cliches. >we all know the rythym is what rupert's good at, but even the best beats >need some support. there's nothing less true than what you've said here. cheerio! np - enforcers above the law - reinforced records