I have to agree with Peter, Ritchie has played better sets. I personally felt that after seeing Mr Hawtin for the fourth time on his DF9 tour that this is quite possibly what I would expect if I were at a rock concert; preprogrammed, uninspired & clinical, just another show. This is the last time I will see Hawtin for a while now. When we had him play for us back in September last year in Pittsburgh (just b4 DF9 came out) I was amazed at what he was doing. Then I heard the cd. It was pretty much the exact same set as Pittsburgh! Then off to the cd release party, another boring straight up techno set, 25 minutes of house at the end with the big 909 rollup to end it all off. The media guys dig it up, but personally I got more out of Theorem that night (you were great Dale!) than Ritchie. Since then everytime I've seen Ritchie its been the same shit. I just keep coming back and hoping that he'll go back and play some of the deep stuff that he's played before. Parties like Minimal (back in 96) and the first few Ritual parties (#1, and #4) were the best sets I've ever heard Ritchie play, and moreover were the ones that kept me on my toes and working hard on my own shit. Oh yeah last thing, there was one bassline in Ritchie's set (only one I heard though I left at 11), it was the DK remix on drumcode 20. Only thing in the whole set that even made me nod my head. my $0.02 todd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter B Leidy wrote: > Okay, I was hoping somebody would have brought this up already so that I > wouldnt have to- but as nobody has really tackled it, and I think it needs > some attention: > > Was anyone else disappointed with mr hawtins set to close the demf? > > I cant speak on the entire performance because I left after the first hour > out of boredom, but that was some of the most boring 4ontheFloor 909 stuff > I've heard in a while. I dont remember a single bassline in any of the > tracks. Most of the synth stuff from the vinyl got buried under the 909 > kick/snare/hihat/ride -which i believe someone did mention briefly as > perhaps a fault of the sound engineer. The builds and snare rolls were > cheesy and formulated crowd pleasers and I think even the crowd was > getting bored of them after the first five or six. > > Now I hate badmouthing mr hawtin, as i have heard and seen him do plenty > of great things for the music community, and I have enjoyed a handful > of his sets via detroit parties around '94-95. It was even quite > impressive watching him juggle all his stuff at demf and do 909 > programming on the fly, but the outcome just seemed pretty boring. Not > even any of those trademark plastikman funky rimshot rhythms. just > kick,snare,hihat,ride- w/ very little variety in the different beats. > > Perhaps I am missing something conceptually behind this 'cause I dont > really know anything about his ideas for doing the decks/efx/909 thing, > and I may be overlooking some fundamental part to this stuff- I've never > been too into the bangin' 4ontheFloor stuff as much anyways- so perhaps > I'm not the best critic of it. > > I think just after hearing a lot of great music from derrick w/ plenty of > soul and tribally rhythm stuff going on, the 909 just couldn't follow it > up for me. > > comments please... > > -p > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
