From D.J.Butler Sent Mon, Jul 17th 2000, 10:18
From D.J.Butler Sent Mon, Jul 17th 2000, 10:18
Have to add that the Mills double is just what I've been waiting to hear from him. Really warm and fluid, gentle yet danceable. His use of subtle rhythm building just here and there in all the right places is perfect, plus I love all those marimba patterns! As Marsel says, there are elements of the original Detroit sound, hints of the beauty of some of Derrick May's original masterpieces. Not a duff track in sight, so buy on sight! Dan http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1267/index.html http://www.mp3.com > -----Original Message----- > From: marsel [SMTP:xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxxx.xx] > Sent: 14 July 2000 17:39 > To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx; xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: [313] hood, mills, craig, nubian mindz, domu > > > what is techno? is techno still alive? & is there still any good techno > coming out? well, whatever.. i bought some records yesterday and i would > like to share my opinios about them. > > ||| > > robert hood - nighttime world volume 2 - cd - m-plant - m-p318.cd > nighttime world (volume 1) was robert hood's double pack release through > pulsinger's outlet cheap from austria. on that release he successfully > combined jazz elements with minimal techno, together with a good portion > of > soul. this cd album, volume 2, sees fourteen beautiful tracks and with > those he even moves more away from his minimal style. first track after > the > intro goes smoothly downtempo and funky, as some other will do as well. > most remarkable for me is that 'only' about three go in a more 'regular > hood way', but nevertheless, as said, it's a very gorgeous soulful album. > most tracks come in a lush, beautiful ambient way, reminding to older jon > beltran albums and neil olliveira's 313 soundtrack, and also mills' > ambient > sound scapes. some come with soft beats, some with smooth breaks, but the > soul is definitely always there. a very stronge real smooth, warm laidback > > album. > > millsart - every dog has its day - 2x12" - axis - ax-20 > shortly after his lifelike album, and several purpose makers, jeff mills > comes up with this double pack. first track takes of with the smooth tight > > mills'feeling, 4/4, but pretty downtempo. second track goes more > downtempo, > string-based, even somewhat breaky. side b brings two tracks, first track > in a real may-styled positivism, soft strings, lush melodies, wonderful > stuff. second track goes ambient, somewhat darker, deep things. second > platter, side c goes again in more soft mode, still mills, but from his > most romantic side, dreamy strings, gentle snares, and deeply, deeply > soulful. side d continues in this lush style, again more downtempo techno, > > strings, funky melodies all around. second track maybe comes most close to > > his more familiar things, as it is pretty direct with a smooth euporhic > feeling, last short ambient piece makes the circle round.. for me it's > really best thing he's done, at least the last three years. axis as it > should be, a timeless release as several others, which made axis so really > > wonderful!! >