Ashok wrote:
quoted 3 lines Count me in as another huge Jeff Mills fan, although i haven't> Count me in as another huge Jeff Mills fan, although i haven't
> had the money to keep up with him recently. Waveform
> Transmission v.1 is one of my all-time fave techno albums.
Well, me too. And someone made some derogatory comments about "Changes of Live"
I thought that was a great track! Cheesy but just so in your face I had to love
it. WF2 and 3 took a bit longer to impress me, but there are some real stormers
on both of these, as well as some really inventive ideas.
quoted 5 lines While we're on a Mills thread, what do people think of Leo>
> While we're on a Mills thread, what do people think of Leo
> Anibaldi? I understand he is from the same
> intelligent-hardcore stable. Ditto for Robert Armani's import
> CDs--how do they fare?
I'd go for Leo any day. I have about 4 or 5 12"s and double-packs from him.
Always manages to get some serious dark moods in there somewhere. Often a hard
bashing beat is accompanied by strange dronings and quiet horror-movie type
background effects, with very spookey results. The "Muta" double pack has some
ambient tracks on it which take these ideas away from the dancefloor. That
said, the hard dance stuff is worth sitting down to listen to, just to get that
atmosphere properly!
Robert Armani is a bit more basic, but nonetheless extremely effective. Simple
nagging riffs tied to stomping hard house rhythms for dancefloor mayhem. A
helluva lot easier to mix than Mills' stuff, it must be said!
There is a great ACV compilation available at present with tracks from both of
these 2, plus Dave Clarke and a whole bunch of others. Can't remember the
title, but its double vinyl or a mixed CD. Most of it is full-on in-yer face
material, but some of it is pretty laid back too.
quoted 3 lines Lastly, I would like to give a big thumbs-up to Hardfloor's>
> Lastly, I would like to give a big thumbs-up to Hardfloor's
> latest, "Respect".
Yup. Spot on from Hardfloor, broadening their sound slightly without losing
their direction
quoted 2 lines On Last: Spicelab "A Day on our Planet"> On Last: Spicelab "A Day on our Planet"
> (Does techno get *any* better than this?!)
Well, quite probably not. Someone else described it as a "classic" only a week
or so after release. It really is Great! I must listen to this again tonight.
J
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James Skilton aka Steady J - jamess@firefox.co.uk
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