At 7:12 PM 4/24/94 +0100, u90cmg@ecs.ox.ac.uk wrote:
quoted 9 lines Re: Hawtin.>Re: Hawtin.
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> I thought much the same as you two. , however,
>Krakpot is good for mixing, as you can just leave it going for ages
>with another track, thus lending the other track a bit of a harder
>edge. V. boring to listen to neat though. Is the p.man lp like tyhis
>al the way thru?. I heard 'helicopter' or whatever. now this seemed
>too bare to listen to, and not even useful for miixin.
> Does anyone feel like saving mr Hawtins' rep?
I don't know about saving his rep, but I rather like the Plastikman cd.
It's structured very nicely as a listenable record- I don't think of it as
music for dancing: even though it's not, I tend to think of the record as
being more on the ambient side, but heavier and more energetic. Some of
the bass lines are really incredible and full, and the way he works sound
around the rhythms is sparse but very rich. I find that the music is
somehow mysterious sounding.
Krakpot doesn't really sound to me that much like the Plastikman cd. As
for the Spastik 12", I haven't heard that mix, but I've heard James
Christian and Junior Vasquez spin the lp version of Spastik to a roomful of
dancers seriously digging what they're hearing, so he's obviously doing
something right. It is metronomic, but the way those fat bass lines kick
in on a good sound system really propels you. Helikopter is a very
different sounding remix of Spastik, and I don't think that it would stand
up on the dance floor as well as Spastik does.
Phil Z