quoted 23 lines As an anti-four-on-the-floor type (by which I don't mean "ABOLISH 4OTF!"
> > As an anti-four-on-the-floor type (by which I don't mean "ABOLISH 4OTF!"
> > or something, just that I don't like it) I can personally attest to not
> > liking Chain Reaction. Porter Ricks is something I feel like I really
> > OUGHT to like, and I don't find myself turning it off quite as swiftly
> > as the other stuff I've heard on the label, but all in all I hear about
> > a minute of it and think "Why am I listening to this?"
> >
> > I've tried very hard to like Chain Reaction - reviews on idm, in the
> > Wire, and all over the place exhort me to go and buy. However, it does
> > nothing for me. Nice ambient sounds, I like the glitches and
> > weirdnesses, but fuck me, those beats drive me mad. It's probably just a
> > general house thing - I like very little house, and this is reflected in
> > my opinion of minimal house stuff. [Don't think I'm dismissing
> > everything with a kick drum on every beat (given that most d'n'b, and
> > most hip-hop too, is in 4/4...) or whatever. I love Underworld's first
> > two dance albums (ie dubnobasswithmyheadman and second toughest...) even
> > now, but listening to the latest album I can't help feeling disappointed
> > - - some of it's lovely, but a lot is just boring]
> >
> > Ah! Boring. That's the word I was looking for. Chain Reaction bores me
> > to tears. Y'know, there's minimal and there's minimal. Steve Reich will
> > never bore me; same with Underworld's loooong epics, because they have
> > an overarching structure that builds, goes somewhere, does something.quoted 6 lines Final note: I'm not sure about the causality here, but Mego put out
> > Final note: I'm not sure about the causality here, but Mego put out
> > glorious glitchy and weird stuff which I think is on entirely another
> > level from Chain Reaction. I doubt that one of them came first, but in
> > terms of "ground-breaking", I think Mego [Fennesz, Farmers Manual,
> > General Magic, Pita etc] are about as ground-breaking as it gets these
> > days. I would also include Matmos in that league...