From Harvey Devoe Thornburg Sent Wed, Jun 24th 1998, 00:51
From Harvey Devoe Thornburg Sent Wed, Jun 24th 1998, 00:51
> > i just picked up my ticket for the ritchie hawtin show to be held at the > glasshouse in pomona on thursday the 2nd of july. the flyer claims that > ritchie will be doing a five hour d.j. set along with effects and a > 909. plus a two hour set from john aquaviva. i am just bubbling over > with excitement. i've slowly evolved in to quite the plastikman fan > over the past few years, and at this time i think he's one of the most > important people making music today. well, at least to me. to give you > an idea of how much i'm looking forward to this show, the last time i > went to any sort of rave/club experience was almost two years ago. it > takes a lot to get me away from my home stereo. > > so here's the question. i'm very in to the concept:one cd out on > hawtin's m-nus label. i've heard talk that it is similar in style to > the basic channel material, none of which i have heard. if i dig on the > minimal style of the concept:one cd, will i enjoy the basic channel > stuff? any other minimal techno suggestions? > I've been listening a lot to the Maurizio CD and the Basic Channel comp (both in metal boxes from Chain Reaction, I presume). It's similar in the overall feel to Hawtin's "Concept" stuff, perhaps a bit less stripped down, more suggestive of actual melodies etc. Somewhat in the same vein (though perhaps darker) is the Elin "Stutzpunkt Wien-UFO Beobachtungen" CD, originally on Mego but reissued through OR. Though not really 'techno', the work of Carsten Nicolai (Noto) mixes very well in this company. He's kind of a modern-day Conrad Schnitzler in terms of the focus on repetition and isolation of pure electronic sound. --Harvey