From Et Pharmacistic Paradoxia Sent Fri, Jun 12th 1998, 23:54
From Et Pharmacistic Paradoxia Sent Fri, Jun 12th 1998, 23:54
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Ben Coffer wrote: > In message <xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx>, Jon Drukman > <xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> writes > >me. i was just listening to The Mix in my car with my new subwoofer > >booming away and thinking, damn, this is just awesome. it sounds like > >machines dreaming. > > Weird. I don't know how *anyone* can listen to that CHEESE when the > originals sound so sci-fi, so pure, so nice, so excellent. Yeah, lets > take the original tune, quantize it completely and stick a "dance beat" > underneath.....what's the point in that? Isn't everyone doing it? In my opinion, Kraftwerk already kind of "blew it" in terms of a comeback when they released these remixes, that is, in terms of following up their timeless earlier work with something new. These remixes are good and were very appropriate in the early 90's, but they are the most dated-sounding of all their recordings from my '98 perspective. Because they already broke their "silence" of not releasing anything and really should have put some new material together, even if, like Tour De France, they just expanded on the electro-pop formula. Isn't redigesting their own music something best left for those of us who've been so influenced by them? (Why should they stoop down to our level of creativity?) Repeating themselves through making even very-similar NEW songs seems like a better way to keep their name alive, etc, than to remix old tunes to sound like everything glamorous about '91. That is really pretty clumsy by their own standards, imho. Of course, I didn't feel this way in '92, but now time has passed... Solenoid xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx <------+