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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Lance C. McGannon wrote: | . Substance: Session Elements cd (Chain Reaction) | For those unfamiliar with Substance, filtered gritty minimal | techno is his style. Fans of Basic Channel, Porter Ricks,Various | Artists, Profan and Monolake will love this one. Essential. 9/10 I'd be keen for a little more detail, ie. some distinctions from those things you compare it too. For example, I'd say Monolake have a more of a rounded, bubbling dubby sound than Porter Ricks, who I'd say have a colder sound, with more of a focus on submerged noise. Maybe no one else would agree, but if someone does, you may be on the right wavelength to tell me what I want. :) I've heard the Substance guy is big on Chicago house (imports records for a German record store?), and that that gives his stuff more of a punchiness than other CR releases. Michael "You know what? I'll call him Jet Jaguar..." http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html Site last updated 15/4/98

At 04:44 PM 7/9/98 +1200, you wrote:

quoted 15 lines On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Lance C. McGannon wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Lance C. McGannon wrote: > >| . Substance: Session Elements cd (Chain Reaction) > >| For those unfamiliar with Substance, filtered gritty minimal >| techno is his style. Fans of Basic Channel, Porter Ricks,Various >| Artists, Profan and Monolake will love this one. Essential. 9/10 > >I'd be keen for a little more detail, ie. some distinctions from those >things you compare it too. For example, I'd say Monolake have a more of a >rounded, bubbling dubby sound than Porter Ricks, who I'd say have a colder >sound, with more of a focus on submerged noise. Maybe no one else would >agree, but if someone does, you may be on the right wavelength to tell me >what I want. :) >

Ok, the substance cd has more of a hard crisper techno sound. The tracks still incorporate the trademark bc/cf filtered sound but the percussion seems to be much more pronounced making these tracks quite suitable for the floor. If i had to give this release a temperature and feel, as you have done for the other releases i mentioned, i would say that this one has more of a cold, looped & reverbed feel. In fact several of the tracks on this cd are simply lock grooves played for several minutes. So you can see how it might sound cold and looped. Hope this better describes this release for you.

quoted 4 lines I've heard the Substance guy is big on Chicago house (imports records for

>I've heard the Substance guy is big on Chicago house (imports records for >a German record store?), and that that gives his stuff more of a >punchiness than other CR releases. >

I don't know about his tastes in music but i do know that he works at the famed german techno shop Hardwax along with several other Chain Reaction, Basic Channel, M, Burial Mix, and Rhythm & Sound label artists. Sounds like a good place to work to me. : ) -->-Lance--- p.o. box 450715 westlake, ohio 44145 united states