the lyrics kind of bug me after awhile, in the way arch
post-modernism can wind up being an endless knowing smirk.
one thing i like about the record is the contradictions of scale --
big, dancefloor music on an equal par with all those little, very
human, sniffles and scuffs.
maybe he goes to see classical music a lot...you get to hear lots of
that stuff (the sniffles and creaks, i mean) mixed with the music in
concert halls.
I think Moodymann is a more interesting example of deviant house
music ("Art House"?). the music gets way beyond the process of
evoking and dismantling a genre, it becomes a whole cultural
rumination.
kurt
quoted 32 lines I would like to add that the lyrical content for what it is on Vocalcity esp.>I would like to add that the lyrical content for what it is on Vocalcity esp.
>on Tessio is above the usual house-tripe and makes me smile...
>
>"i guess you make me warm
>when you do the hum
>making everybody come
>getting creative with your charm"
>
>-i
>
>--- Philip Sherburne <philip@askjeeves.com> wrote:
> > >
>> >
>> > >Luomo is decent techhouse, but for me it doesnt
>> > >hold up as an album over time, sounds like trax.
>> > >VD's other releases are much more interesting.
>> > >If you want techhouse >>there's better out there.<<
>> > >how about axus 'soundtracks for life' on guidance,
>> > >or matos & mateo on glasgow underground.
>> > >d.digglers fulllength on raum is
>> > >awfully good, as is icube's work.
>> >
>> > sure, but i don't think luomo is simply trying to be by-the-numbers
>> > tech-house. i think it's actually attempting (and accomplishing)
>> > something quite different in its use of fragmented vocals, buried blips
>> > and nuances... axus and mateo & matos may be "deeper," but they're going
>> > for a much more traditional deep house sound. d. diggler, similarly, is
>> > much closer to traditional dub-techno/tech-house. the pleasure, for me,
>> > in luomo is that he managed to achieve a very different sound; i wouldn't
>> > look at it as a failure to recreate proper tech-house.
>> >
> > > phil
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