quoted 4 lines I also got the Portishead album, but that isn't really Intelligent dance>> I also got the Portishead album, but that isn't really Intelligent dance
>> music. Can anyone recommend any of the Trancemaster series?
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> The Portishead album is much more intelligent than the Trancemaster series ;)
Hans, what is this supposed to mean? (Even granting you the smiley)
I have the first Trancemaster (I presume; it was called "Trancemaster Vol. I -
Ambient Dance II Trance Chill Out). It came out 2 years ago and it had folks
like Resistance D, Hypnotist, Irresistible Force, Frank De Wulf, Phobia, Dance
2 Trance, Komakino, Evolution and Speedy J. on it, among others.
By the "Artificial Intelligence" anal weenie definition of "intelligent", this
certainly qualifies. It was one of the best comps I bought that year. Classic
tracks from Cyclotron, Suck Me Plazma, +8, Rising High and R&S on that comp.
Meanwhile, we have Portishead described as:
" ... sparse deep Hip-Hop beats, almost film soundtrack sounding tunes ...
strings, organs ... very 50's and 60's and ... vocals by a very strong singer."
Hip-hop? Strings? Organs? "50's and 60's"? VOCALS?!?
This is supposed to be "much more intelligent"? How so? If I was in a
particularly Drukman-ian mood (:-)) I'd call it "shite". IMHO, I wouldn't
personally be caught dead buying anything with strings, organs and vocals on
it. On the one hand, as far as something vaguely & remotely similar goes, I
think Barry Adamson's "Moss Side Story" is a work of genius, but (a) that was
1987, and (b) I don't go around calling "Moss Side Story" IDM. But hey ...
Anyway, the point is, there seem to be two camps in IDM (the list); the more
Trance-oriented group (which I'll extend as far as to encompass, e.g., the
mu-Ziq lovers, of which I count myself) and the more Gotta Have Da
Funque-oriented group (no prizes for guessing who are in this crew (-: ).
I don't tend to see the former group dissing on the latter here too often.
But the latter group seem to take great glee in doing the same to the former.
(cf. Jon's comments about liking mu-Ziq being an indicator of "low IQ" and it
not being "Real Music"(TM).)
In the words of that great late 20th Century philosopher, Rodney King (-:
"Can't we all just get along?"
- Greg