ph -> Fresh <GMerchan@gnn.com>
>> This is two CDs just jam packed with exceptional noises. Better
>> than every so-called "trip hop" release on Ninja Tune and Mo'Wax
>> put together.
ph>
ph> Lets not get carried away here. This is at best a medicore record.
ph> I just love to see all the bands scrambling for a peice of the
ph> trip-hop/jungle pie (a KFMDM jungle track? Get serious...). Beware
ph> of trip-hopers wearing leather pants. Leave it to the kids that
ph> know how to rock beats. The best thing to ever happen to Meat Beat
ph> Manifesto was the RDJ remix. Its all gone downhill from there...
Oh, good heavens. Meat Beat are "cashing in" on techno? The group that
gave the world _Storm The Studio_, _Dog Star Man_, and "Helter Skelter" /
"Radio Babylon" (the last two of which I _still_ hear on a regular basis
at parties) helped _create_ modern techno as we know it. It would take an
incredibly myopic perspective to say that MBM are somehow newcomers to
the techno scene.
And as for that crack about leather pants, calm down yourself. I think
it's worth keeping in mind that at least one of the members of Probe IDM
heavyweights Teste is very fond of black eyeliner and that Jeff Mills got
his music-making start in "The Final Cut", a fine industro outfit on
WaxTrax! (or was it Nettwerk? I always get them confused). In any case,
one could argue that he certainly knows how to rock beats, no? There are
MANY, MANY technoheads with dark industrial pasts (eh, Alan?). Don't be
such a priss.
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