At 21:35 21/03/01 -0400, andrei wrote:
quoted 7 lines There's a record which isn't related to the BC/CR family which I think is
>There's a record which isn't related to the BC/CR family which I think is
>excellent
>and that's the Rapaccioli 12" on Vertical Form. You can definitely hear
>the influence
>of stuff like Various Artists and Monolake, but it's just really well
>done. I think
>it moves a bit more than CR stuff.
The second 12 on Vertical Form is almost absurdly derivative of CR, and
which certainly fits the bill of the more dub end of the tech stuff. It's a
split between Rapaccioli and Agent Cooper (aka Pacou). One of the first
track on the A side sounds so like Maurizio it weirds me out. It's a
classic Maurizio groove - booming kick on the offbeat giving it that reggae
accent. OTOH, Rapaccioli is involved with Leftfield, who have always had
some reggae influenced tracks. So perhaps he was just going for a reggae
thing and didn't realise (or care) how much it ended up sounding like
someone else. The downbeat track is a bit more his own thing, and certainly
has a major dub influence to it, although with a less reggae rhythm.
The Pacou tunes both sound to me exactly like Various Artists. If I didn't
know it was someone else, I would have thought Agent Cooper was another
pseudonym for Various Artists.
I like the way the music sounds, but there is something I find unnerving
about music that sounds a lot like someone else. I guess I'm more
interested in the concepts behind music than I sometimes admit to myself...
*shrug*
Michael
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