on the minimal-techno-yet-intelligent tip, recently discovered this label
out of new zealand:
http://www.nurturerecordings.com/ - some really
beautiful stuff
quoted 38 lines I'm personally quite a fan of the Tresor crowd. In general they continually
>I'm personally quite a fan of the Tresor crowd. In general they continually
>crank out releases of hard, minimal techno. It's an acquired taste, I would
>say... highly repetitive and usually lacking any sort of melodic
>sensibility. i would agree with the generalization that it's the "best
>techno available" considering that they've released several top notch
>releases by Cristian Vogel, Surgeon, Subhead, Dave Tarrida, DJ
>Shufflemaster, Fumiya Tanaka... not to mention classics from Jeff Mills,
>Joey Beltram, etc..... I stumbled onto this stuff a little late in the
>game,
>but I never seem to tire of what is perhaps a rather formulaic sound. It
>just always seems to sound good on most of the Tresor releases I've heard.
>They've also put out some non-bangin stuff by Drexciya; I know there have
>been several threads about their new one, but I think it's solid as is
>"Neptune's Lair," its predecessor for the label. (On a side note, I
>wouldn't
>necessarily dismiss the harder, more repetitive Tresor stuff as
>unintelligent, although that may not have been your intent in the original
>post.)
>
>I had assumed that Vogel left Tresor because his music had gotten
>considerably stranger than their usual releases (although Subhead and
>Tarrida are doing comparable things to his "Buscas Invisibles" release I
>think), and he was dabbling in more leftfield stuff. I also assumed that
>Mute offered him much better distribution and more potential to crossover
>with different audiences, since Tresor is so heavily associated with the
>banging techno sound. I haven't heard much of his Mille Plateaux material
>although what I have heard has paled to his Tresor and Mute releases...
>he's
>definitely progressed in the last several years. "Buscas" and "Rescate137"
>are both really great albums, as is the Super_Collider release on Loaded
>("Head On"). I have heard that a new Super_Collider release is expected to
>drop in May or thereabouts... fingers crossed, I can't wait!
>
>Tresor is releasing a 3CD retrospective compilation in March which looks to
>be pretty interesting... I missed most of these releases when they
>originally came out so it will be great to have selections from the
>backcatalogue on one extensive compilation rather than trying to track all
>of it down for outrageous prices. i like the stuff, but not THAT much ;-)
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