Re: (idm) 16b, swayzak

From Andrew Duke Cognition
Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 20:55

Brock Phillips wrote:

> Think I've got the titles right, but anyway -
>
> 16B "Sounds from Another Room" LP (Eye Q?)
>

***to put it simply: quite deep and sometimes dark sounding

> Swayzak "Snowboarding in Argentina" LP (Pagan)
>

***to put it simply again: plenty of textures; quite techy (ie. tech house)
house

> Chaser "Game On!" LP (Soma) (same guys from Future Sound of Jazz comps?)
>

***to put it simply one more time (my brain is fried, sorry): very organic
sounding, almost sounds like a live band at times; sometimes at a house tempo
with a four on the floor kick, other times more like a funk/jazz band at a
slower tempo; playable to dancers, plus quite listenable at home; swayzak is
the one that got huge positive critical and commercial acclaim in 1998; chaser
only came out this week so time will tell; chaser is nigel hayes (aka charley
brown with toronto's austin bascombe) and lars sandberg (funk d'void). if we
have to use intelligent ;) i would say the herbert and ibbotson are more so
than the ones above, but it's all excellent music, so i wouldn't say the
herbert style of abstract house is better than the organic ohouse of chaser or
the textured house of swayzak or the darker stuff of 16b, for example. it's
all house music, just different sounds. herbert and ibbotson have more of an
idmey sound i suppose, but i'll cut this short now cos i'm getting wordy. i've
got a marcel single remixed by chaser, but no album. sorry. hope this helps.
andrew :)

> How do these stack up in comparison to other quality "deep/intelligent"
> (for lack of a better term) house rekkids by Herbert, Ibbotson, et al. And
> does anyone know about an LP by Marcel (of Nuphonic patronage) called
> "Vigniti"? Trying to find out if this is CD only or if vinyl's available.
>
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