Ok, 808 State UTD 90 is these oldest techno cd in my collection (from
1990), but listening to Cobra Bora last night made me think how techno has
much more repetitive and boring recent, cf. Chemical Brothers, most
trip-hop/acid stuff now. Are there any good artists today that don't
simply that a single 4/4 measure smaple and repeat it for 7 minutes, with
a little tweaking here and there on the filters and volumn controls?
Cobra Bora actually has what you might call a "lead" synth part, that
spans more than one measure, on top of that chugged bass line. I don't
like adherence to pop song structure, but I think now a days the structure
is so simple that it gets boring soon.
IMHO, the whole UTD 90 album is still the best up-tempo techno
album ever.
Maybe I'm missing a whole world of techno by only buying drum n bass
now, and some one can turn me on to something similar to this style.
-Mark