From marsel Sent Fri, Jul 14th 2000, 16:38
From marsel Sent Fri, Jul 14th 2000, 16:38
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!! designer music - problemz/the truth - 12" - planet e - pe65255 designer music is a monicker carl craig regular uses for his remixes. as teaser the whole designer music album, containing some of his finest remixes, this twelve pops up with two tracks. 'problemz' is his remix of the alexander robotnick track. the mix is heavy dancefloor stuff, heavy beats & basses together with the craig-styled sweeping hihats, combined with the catchy vocal sample. second part goes deeply into the filters. 'the truth' goes less wild, and takes it pretty purely analog electronic, a slowly building track, with building dreamy strings. nubian mindz - new world chaos - 2x12" - archive - file 1 lp nubian mindz is collin lindo, who's probably best known for his drum 'n bass releases as alpha omega. since a year he uses this monicker to put out some of my favorite fat techno jazz fusions tracks through the archive and 2000black labels. new world chaos is a tight eight tracks album, taken it into new dimensions. jazzy detroit strings meet raw claps & beats. side a comes the second part of 'black science' and the smooth 'montage', somewhat clinical like craig's 'elements'. side b brings 'planet electro', which turns out to be real fine hi tech jazz thing, and 'nubian alliance' reminds me somewhat to titonton stuff, combining agressive distorted beats with the soft strings, relaxed bases - the contrast really catches me. the second record continues brightly on, especially side d. if science needs an soundtrack, this should be it. 'emotions' has a fat low 303 in it, and 'new world chaos' is a spacey as dan curtin's first releases. i really love this album.. fresh, raw, direct and deeply soulful & funky, check it! domu - message to.. - 12" - archive - document8 from the man, which put out some of my favorite tunes from last year, three new very fine warm tracks. side a hosts two tracks, of which the first one goes into pretty familiar downtempo stuff, pretty laidback hip hop beats, together with smooth jazzy tinglings above. second one becomes more typical domu, uptempo, hectic jazzy beats - with heavily soundtrack like strings about touching a but of photek, but when soft, fragile vocals come in, it all becomes more like somehting never heard before, towards 4hero, but so spacey and elusive, gorgeous. side b comes with one warm summer track, soft strings & melodies, somewhat combining 4x4 beats within breakbeats, and deep heavy basses. a strong continuation of his remarkable releases! ||| have a nice weekend you all! ___________________________________ forcefield | mindless entertainment http://www.forcefield.org _ __ ___