quoted 9 lines _In Pine Effect_ is very poor IMHO BTW. Paradinas is fucking> > _In Pine Effect_ is very poor IMHO BTW. Paradinas is fucking
> > up bigstyle :( :(
>
> Greg, remember that this is Mike's _SAW 85-92_ in the sense
> that, like Rich James, he got his friends to choose the
> tracks - he has said himself that he doesn't think it's that
> good... I like one or two tracks on there but for the most
> part, I'd have to agree with him - it hasn't grown on me at
> all.
Since most US readers have not heard In Pine Effect yet, let
me respectfully beg to differ. 'In Pine Effect' is head and
shoulders above most of what is being released these days. I'm
concerned that people won't buy it because it's been slagged
here, and I think that would be a shame.
In my opinion what works against muZiq is that the
idiosyncracies of his style were so fresh 2 years ago that
everyone fell in love
with 'Tango' and the luck few with 'Bluff'. Since then everyone
has imitated the idiosyncracies of his style, meaning that his
music is no longer sounds 'cutting edge.'
But LISTEN to it. LISTEN to it again. The man composes. He
improvises. He builds mad beats and breaks. He makes songs
that go somewhere. He does NOT set up a 909 and a 303 and
twiddle knobs for 8 minutes and call it a track. There's some
emotion, melodies, and motion to his music.
Feel free to dislike it, but don't do so unless you really give
it a chance and meet it halfway. The music I still listen to
25 years after first hearing it (how many of you can say that?)
is music that I wasn't sure I liked when I first heard it.
The stuff that instantly grabs you sometimes doesn't have the
same staying power.
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