From Maer Ben-Yisrael Sent Wed, Jun 30th 1999, 16:25
Bill Van Loo - The Voice of Knowledge and Reason. Screw multimedia design, Bill, you're destined for the U.N. ;) -Ma'er... On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, William Van Loo wrote: > > > I don't know about a hip-hop *influence*, > > > > I thought it was common knowledge that Autechre were just a bunch of > > b-boys at heart? The influence might be a bit more audible on the Gescom > > projects (especially Gescom 2, SKA003).... but it's definitely the soul > > of most Autechre releases... > > Ya'll always miss the point of things by trying to say, "it's one thing", or > "it's another thing". > > Autechre has a distinct hip-hop influence to these ears (which have been > listening to real honest-to-goodness hip-hop for years). Check the tried by 12 > remix or "Goz quarter" for evidence. > > Obviously it's not everything to them, though. I don't hear a lick of hip-hop > soul in the noisy interludes on LP5 or the Gescom MiniDisc. But that's OK, > they are a multi-faceted group. > > For the record, I dropped both the hip-hop side (tried by 12 remix; a slice of > vocal garbled-yet-discernable heaven) and the non-hip-hop side (various > artists no.9 remix; a slice of grungy 4-to-the-floor techno heaven) last night > on www.detroitpeoplemover.com - check it out. Unfortunately the tried by 12 > mix isn't in there, but the various artists is. > > Bill / dj marathon > -- > Sigma6 Interactive Media (a division of AppNet) / http://www.sigma6.com > > http://www.detroitpeoplmover.com > http://www.citydetroit.com >