From Che Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 09:49
At 03:20 PM 2/12/99 +1300, Michael Upton wrote: >Stil, my impression is that if you substitute >rhythm sections (and tempos) between the various >styles, the actual music is often pretty >interchangeable. NB. _often_, I'm not saying >that's always the case. This might be true in the case of a few Global Communication, Reload, and Link tracks (where there's a bit of genre overlap anyway), but overall it's not true. The emotions evoked tend to change w/ the name, and this is a function of music. Compare the version of "Natural High" by Global Communication w/ the version by Chaos & Julia Set. The former is dreamy, the latter is sinister and paranoic. Even though they share a chord progression, the supporting music is wildly different. Also, their Deep House tracks tend to be less dense and structurally simpler than their other work. Here's a (partial) mapping of Moods & Genres to Names: Name Mood Genre GlobComm Dreamy Ambient GlobComm Upbeat House Secret Ingredients Upbeat Deep House New York/New York Upbeat Deep House Reload Sinister Techno Reload Thoughtful Soundtrack Pelusha Dreamy Beatless Ambient Link Thoughtful Techno Chaos & Julia Set Sinister Drum&Bass Chameleon Dreamy Drum&Bass Jedi Knights Upbeat PseudoFunk/Big Beat This is, of course, not absolute, just a generalization, as there are overlaps between their various recording personnae. I'm trying to capture the overall feel here. Reload has done dreamy techno (On Remix, Le Soleil Et La Mer), GlobComm has done dreamy trip hop (Funk In The Fridge, Natural High), and Jedi Knights have done dreamy techno (Science Friction was originally a Link/E621 track, and The Truth, Human Blancmange, Solina Ascension, and Afterlife sound more like Link than they do the other JK tracks). I think that most of the genre overlap is attributable to contractual obligations. I think the underlying link between all of Mark & Tom's work is that they seek to make music with a high emotional content. In that they rarely fail. And I hope that their virtual silence in '98 will be followed by a creative explosion in '99. Che