Hey, Christian...
I worship Seefeel as well, but I wouldn't call them shoegazey
_at_ _all_. In fact, I wouldn't even call them a techno offshoot.
They're far more out there than that. I think of them as a :zoviet-
france: with traditional instrumentation. Yeah, they get technoey, and
they get poppy, but that doesn't really seem like that's what they're
reaching for. Nobody on Too Pure seems to be trying to be really much
of anything, but I suppose that's getting a bit too non-IDM.
I meant what I said in my review -- I really feel that
Chapterhouse is the best fusion of _pop_ music with techno
sensibilities that I've heard so far. I guess it helps that I was an
avid Chapterhouse fan to begin with, but I've heard my share of
attempts towards fusion of pop and techno before, and most of them
were godawful. It seems to me that Chapterhouse and Drum Club are
working towards the same aim from opposite directions, but I suppose
there are those of you out there who would say that doesn't help
Chapterhouse much.
I dunno, I just know that I _really_ like this CD. Which of
course puts this in the matter of opinion, and so makes it a pointless
thing to argue about, but I just thought I'd make one attempt at
clarification. Talk to y'all later!
DJ AladdinSane