From artist Sent Wed, Jun 10th 1998, 17:34
From artist Sent Wed, Jun 10th 1998, 17:34
> > > My interest is Techno as > > > I said and I can listen to Techno in my nice quiet room > To not see techno, in the hands of a gifted DJ, with a crowd who is up for > it, is to entirely miss the point. come on kent, you know this is ultra narrow-minded. i enjoy going out to music and staying in with music and there will always be a valid reason for both. and the music doesn't have to be different for either situation. let's face it, most club pa systems are shit, most djs are up their own arse, and most of the people around you are annoying. usually, when i'm at home, i'm itching to get out and go somewhere, and when i'm out, i can't wait to get back home to have a simple cup of tea and something i /really/ like playing. > Kraftwerk may be doing the same thing 20 years on, but their music is by > their own admission an industrial product, and they've gotten their > manufacturing process down to sub-micron tolerances. and this is where their ideology clashes with (most of) the fans! who on this list is going to be brave enough to admit preferring the 'perfected' versions of their tracks to the original releases? when they eliminated every piece of grit, every millisecond-imperfect edit and every last trace of hiss, something was lost, it suddenly lost all its romance and inspirational quality. though this is mostly down to the choice of equipment they have these days. i mean, a raveolution? things are looking bad! get back to the tinfoil drum pads! > That perhaps deserves a different sort of attention and appreciation than someone > trying to push the state of the art, but it still deserves massive respect. well, this is a difficult one. problem is, their industrial products are beginning to look a little dated. the things they say are becoming irrelevant. >(Though I must say that anyone who thinks Karl Bartos was "taking a crack >at something new" by releasing Electrik Music's "Kraftwerk Lite" album - >or that generic 4-on-the-floor track on T.E.Ex. 1 - has a mighty strange >definition of "new".) well i just meant 'new material', not new ideas. though it's hardly fair to compare new live K material with elektric music's album, when/if the next K album is out, who's to say that it will be any better than bartos' effort? there's every reason to say it will be even worse!!! and just to add - kraftwerk have never been my idols.. Ken Downie, Andy Turner and Ed Handley are! <waves>