From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Dec 22nd 1998, 22:47
From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Dec 22nd 1998, 22:47
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Brad Shelton wrote: | >Michael Upton <xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx.xx> | >But, yes, indeed, the mainstream acceptance of all | >things Maurizio related has certainly dragged | >techno out in front of IDMers for consideration. | Many list members may have already been | schooled about techno before that, but I | wasn't. The Maurizio/Basic Channel/Chain | Reaction CD comps along with a couple of | time-release mix-tapes from a certain list | admin have really turned me onto the 'classic' | techno sound, and made me realize that it | could be just as emotive (if not more) as any | other kind of this-listy music. Yeah, maybe I should have put in "and it's all for the better, IMO". :) My intro was actually through the Black Dog. The only thing I really knew of Detroit etc. was through producers in my hometown. They all wrote really banging, un-soulful tracks, and said they loved Detroit, so it wasn't until I started finding out about Balil tracks on Planet E comps, etc. that I thought there was something more to it. And, yeah, I too pick up a kind of heartfelt, openly emotive vibe to a lot of techno which is a nice contrast to some of the "complexity by the numbers" tendencies of IDMers. As Carl Craig points out quite frequently, techno _is_ street music. It didn't start as the cold and flagrantly progressive thing which it is so often considered to be now. A bit like electro, in that respect, where "futuristic" gets reinterpreted in hindsight to ignore all the slap bass and rap and so on. Anyway, there's my pre-Christmas ramble. :) Have a nice break, all who get a break. I guess most are on the wrong side of the world to enjoy a bit of a summer holiday. Ah well. Michael np. 'Active 89FM birthday CD' (all respect to Wellingtonians doing their thing) ____________________________________________ "Also, he has automatic evasion devices" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html