Totally forgot about his Tresor stuff although I really liked what I heard.
I was thinking more of the Blacklight and Incense and Echospace stuff
On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 43 lines To me the Modellian part would be softly hitting drums. I’m sure it’s out>
> To me the Modellian part would be softly hitting drums. I’m sure it’s out
>> there I haven’t been following contempo dnb much lately.
>>
>
> I read a great interview with Modell somewhere where he opined on the
> cumulative physiological effects of repeatedly listening to aggressive
> techno on Berghain-y sized PAs. I think this was when his Captagon record
> came out-- which (to my ears) totally sounds like a stab at a set that
> makes sense at a Tresor party but doesn't trigger a fight-or-flight response
> .
>
>
>> Paradox is not what you’re looking for. ASC might have some stuff like
>> that - he, like Modell, is aggressively prolific
>>
>
> That was what I was thinking, too! ASC is the closest, but the
> prolificness is the common element.
> Some of ASC's earlier beatless records (Truth Be Told, Time Heals All, No
> Stars etc) has a Modellian dream-static quality, not super far from
> Modell's "Autonomous Music" cd or the more recent "Dusk, Darkness, (3rd
> word that starts with D)".
> Yet I think of Clements primarily as a dude who covers a wiiide territory
> in his catalog-- while Modell is laser-focused on a pretty narrow lane
> (which he somehow manages to take deeper and deeper as time goes on,
> despite the superficial similarities between his records.) The dnb ASC I've
> heard (eg Reflections) isn't fuzzy/hazy/gentle at all.
>
> I checked out those other names.. very loud + shiny, except maybe the
> Silent Dust and Resound? But in those cases, I wouldn't have thought of
> them as dnb producers based on what popped up on a bandcamp search.
>
> ChatGPT's answer is more interesting than I would have guessed, though. I
> never expected scientists in my lifetime would produce such a realistic
> simulation of asking a person who has never listened to music but has no
> qualms about quickly looking up everything other people have said and
> bluffing with their first guess at a "median opinion".
>
>
>
> -rk
>