On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Ben Coffer wrote:
quoted 10 lines In message <357EDE22.35A3F038@gamespot.com>, Jon Drukman> In message <357EDE22.35A3F038@gamespot.com>, Jon Drukman
> <jsd@gamespot.com> writes
> >me. i was just listening to The Mix in my car with my new subwoofer
> >booming away and thinking, damn, this is just awesome. it sounds like
> >machines dreaming.
>
> Weird. I don't know how *anyone* can listen to that CHEESE when the
> originals sound so sci-fi, so pure, so nice, so excellent. Yeah, lets
> take the original tune, quantize it completely and stick a "dance beat"
> underneath.....what's the point in that? Isn't everyone doing it?
In my opinion, Kraftwerk already kind of "blew it" in terms of a comeback
when they released these remixes, that is, in terms of following up their
timeless earlier work with something new. These remixes are good and were
very appropriate in the early 90's, but they are the most dated-sounding
of all their recordings from my '98 perspective. Because they already
broke their "silence" of not releasing anything and really should have put
some new material together, even if, like Tour De France, they just
expanded on the electro-pop formula. Isn't redigesting their own music
something best left for those of us who've been so influenced by them?
(Why should they stoop down to our level of creativity?)
Repeating themselves through making even very-similar NEW songs seems like
a better way to keep their name alive, etc, than to remix old tunes to
sound like everything glamorous about '91. That is really pretty clumsy
by their own standards, imho. Of course, I didn't feel this way in '92,
but now time has passed...
Solenoid
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