quoted 5 lines What I am trying to say is that the way you should approach music you don't> What I am trying to say is that the way you should approach music you don't
> like at first, should be that you don't fully appreciate what the artist/s
> were trying to do with the music, and not just say "It's cheap shite" and
> live your life thinking that that track is rubbish and does not deserve
> listening to.
Just to follow up on personal experience, I've had several occassions over
the years where I originally thought a group was complete crap, only to
later discover how rich the music truly was. Just out of coincidence,
Autechre was one of those groups... I think I first heard one of their
tracks off Incunabula at a listening station at Tower, and thought it was
pretty grinding, irritating noise. Only after catching the track they did
on A.I.-II did I go back and re-discover the Basscadet single, and later
the whole of their discography. Now my impression of them is of an
"intelligent" Aphex Twin. :-)
(don't go starting a flame war just cause I think Autechre is better than
Aphex either... I'm entitled to my $.02, so there. :p )
Anyways, some stuff I picked up today...
Resistance D.- Live At Mayday (12")
M5 featuring Brad Raker- Sanctuary (12")
Prana- Cyclone (CD)
The first two up there are singles... Resistance D. brings us a couple of
remixes of Echoplexing- Rosso Mix and Assign's Exploring All Aspects Of
Sound Resolution Mix. Both do a good job, and I know I'll be using them in
some upcoming mix tapes. I haven't had a chance to listen to the flip
side, but it's supposedly 15 minutes of them Live at Mayday.
At any rate, it sounds like your standard German techno, but with a leaning
toward the more melodic side (if there can be such a thing given all the
hardcore stuff I keep hearing from over there :-)
Next up is M5, with 3 mixes of Sanctuary, including an Electroliners Remix.
Anybody who's been clubbing in the past year has certainly heard the floor
stompers by Brother Grimm (Radiate and Survive). Well, Electroliners did a
remix of Radiate, and this mix of Sanctuary certainly lives up to my
expectations. It's not as trancey as the Radiate mix, but I am thoroughly
grooving to it. And, at $5.44, you get three other excellent tracks,
including a B-side: Gotta Feeling (It's All Good).
The last one I bought becaues it looked very much like a single I snagged a
few weeks ago by Endora. I now realize that this is not Endora, but it's
still good straight up Goa trance stuff. Both releases are on the Matsuri
Productions label, presumably out of the U.K., since the back of the CD
case says "Distributed by Flying Records, U.K."
Cyclone has 10 tracks, the first of which is a prologue co-produced by Andy
Guthrie. I think he's got something to do with Planet Dog, but can't
remember. Anyways, the second track comes in with a brief ambient intro,
then the full effect collage of sound drops in with beats-repetitious
galore. I can see how this type of trance can seem boring, but when it's
pumpin at full volume on a packed dance floor, nobody's gonna care :)
Anyways, that's just a brief synopsis for y'all. Now back to your
regularly scheduled , uh... schedules... =)
OnNow: Album 88, 88.5- "The Planet 8 Show". Some guy playing some damn fine
house music, and it's all going direct to my tape deck. :-)
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