From Giles Dickerson Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 21:04
From Giles Dickerson Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 21:04
and actually..one more quick thing, I find it interesting that Juan would criticise their work of late, because, and no disrespect to magic Juan, but... 1. His music evolved from the use of particular types of hardware, whereas they evolved technology throught heir ideas from music. 2. His recent work's been pretty sloppy as well (namely the wax trax mix cd) g i l e s d i c k e r s o n D I C K E R S O N / B O S T O N : : <jeff mills>it feels like a mission actually, more so than a job</jeff mills> -----Original Message----- From: Cognition Audioworks <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Cc: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 3:58 PM Subject: (313) Re:newKraftwerkVSold/Atkins' opinion >I'm with Will. No one can deny the importance and quality of Kraftwerk's >recorded material. And yes, electronic music since them owes them a huge debt. >But even >Juan Atkins says they're a little bit behind the times re: their *new* music >performed lately (though he was extremely happy they toured and that those >who knew them from their recordings could hear them live, while those who >missed out on Kraftwerk (i.e don't know their electronic music history) could >experience them and get some education to the past. You can check out Atkins' >comments and opinions on Kraftwerk and plenty of other stuff in the interview >with him on In The Mix show 578 on http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition >Thanks. Andrew :) > >C Twomey wrote: > >> Hey, let's not denigrate Ralf & Florian, who set the ground work for all >> the music you like when Kirk Degiorgio could only reach the white keys of >> his Rhodes. I'd refer you to any of the boots of the latest Kraftwerk tours >> - The Return Of The Man-Machine is an excellent one - to re-experience the >> subtle new tunes (and the extension of "Airwaves"), which in the Kraftwerk >> style mix accessible and avant garde elements (the computer-y sequence in >> the 2nd one, which is as poly-rhythmic as any underground tech-house >> stuff). The vocoder melody in the breakdown of 1st new one in the set (the >> Latin-y one between "Radioactivity" and "Trans Europe") has a particular >> strange beauty, like the best of the European avant garde (old school that >> is). >> >> CT >> >> >From: Will Samuels <x_xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: >> >> >The new material they played live last summer wasn't that great. It >> >sounded a little like dated Juno Reactor type of stuff. And it lacked >> >the charm of their earlier releases. >> > > > > > >