quoted 13 lines The only stuff I've managed to get excited about in the year 2000
>The only stuff I've managed to get excited about in the year 2000
>so far has been the various German dancefloor labels that have
>it all together, namely Playhouse, Klang, Perlon, Raum Musik
>and Ware. I'm fairly new to these labels but I'm loving what I'm
>hearing and I'm especially excited by the fact that these labels
>are putting out at least one awesome record out of every three
>they release, which is a great batting average. Especially digging:
>
>Playhouse (see Isolee, Lo Soul and Blaze)
>Klang (see Farben, Maus and Stoll and Eight Miles High)
>Perlon (see Villalobos and Dimbiman)
>Raum Musk (see Dirk Diggler)
>Ware (see Schaffhauser and Neiswandt's "Loom Service")
Mathias Schaffhauser's "Lido Hotel" album has recently been released by
Forcetracks and includes this track amongst numerous others. There's a lot
of great tech-house numbers on it that I quite enjoy.
Neuton is a label that seems to put out decent compilations in this vein,
especially the M.Mayer mix CD which came out a while ago, and the Heiko Laux
"Classic Open" mix CD which includes tracks by Morgenstern, Surgeon, etc.
Also, the Sistol release on Phthalo, Sistol being a side project of
Vladislav Delay, is good for that ultra-minimal, almost-but-not-quite-funky
sound. Just when a groove starts to kick in, the beat skips half a step and
starts over.... I love it!
quoted 5 lines Also the Clicks and Cuts genre (at least the better stuff) is working
>Also the Clicks and Cuts genre (at least the better stuff) is working
>as a balancing sound at the other end of the spectrum (ala Basic
>Channel in the A.R.T. era: you see Vico is right about repeating
>patterns in history) but I've probably said enough about that genre
>already without having any new theory at the moment.
It will be interesting to see how far clicks_+_cuts goes with this sound.
Frank Bretschneider's "Rand" is pretty minimal, but Ihan's "Iota" takes
minimalism to new extremes. Or how about Stilluppsteypa's last release on
Ritornell? How minimal is too minimal? Francesco Lopez's mix on Hecker's
disc on Mego almost completely disappears. On the one hand, you have this
music that's simulating Ad Reinhardt and the like via sound, but on the
other hand, is it an interesting listen? As far as I am concerned, it varies
from case to case. The Stilluppsteypa is effective as an album, but the
Lopez is so nonexistant that beyond the concept (minimal as concept) it
doesn't do much for me (it doesn't do much at all for that matter).
On a side note, I haven't seen any mention of the Ultra-Red album,
"Structural Adjustments," on Mille Plateaux, which I find to be rewarding on
multiple levels: sonically and conceptually.
quoted 13 lines Most of the other new stuff has been really, really boring me.
>Most of the other new stuff has been really, really boring me.
>As I think Nutti said techno in many ways has progressed beyond
>our mutual tolerance for abstraction, but I don't think it's even
>abstraction so much as it is abandoning effective formulaic structure.
>One of the pitfalls in art and music seems to be going at it from
>a freeform, chaotic angle. Not to sound like your college English
>professor, but you have to make choices in a work. Part of the reason
>Playhouse, Klang, SND, Delay and of course Mad Mike, Beltran,
>May, etc. are/were so good is because they make the right choices,
>pick an effective rhythm, strip the track down to manageable
>length, in a good rhythm at a good tempo with only the best sounds
>integrating into the mix. But it's not just that the structure is absent,
>it's also that most of today's stuff sounds flat and grey to me.
Vladislav Delay's work tends to have the added appeal of dense atmosphere.
It's not as sterile as some of the other work being produced lately, which
may contribute to those artists' flatness as you described it. However, VD
doesn't tend to be manageable in length as most of his tracks go over 15-20
minutes. I'm not complaining :)
snd is good but sometimes strikes me as overrated. I enjoy their MP album
quite a lot but there are many other artists doing more interesting things
in that genre: gramm's Personal_rock, dettinger's Intershop, etc.
Glad to see the discussion has gone back to music for a change.... keep it
up.
matt
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