I think the antagonism to the Swedish stuff arises from the fact that the likes of Cari and Adam have been so prolific - saturating the market and subscribing to a formula, even inadvertently. Also it's not material that you can listen to in different environments necessarily, like on a walkman in the tram/bus. As DJ tool material, it's OK, but maybe people are not using it very adventurously. Also I doubt if anyone aside from a trainspotter could recognise or name a track by either those guys or Christian Smith - it's very anonymous. It's not like there is a stand-out track like Jaguar, The Bells, etc.
It's cyclical and I would say that those guys are are mostly moving on anyway. One great track in that genre is Andrew McLauchlan's (sp) Love Story - but I am assuming he's British. Sure Surgeon and Ruskin and more so Ho subscribe to a more intellectual ethos but that said Surgeon insisted in an interview here that he has no affinity with the Mills/Hood cerebralism at all when it comes to techno and that it's more like having sex for him (his analogy) - a physical urge. Ruskin's album Point 2 is very derivative of Mills, I feel, but as a DJ he is excellent. >Awww... poor you. Well, it ain't called the Detroit >313 mailing list fer nothing. Listen to 3 hours of >easy listening Burt Bacharach style and you'll grow to >hate "banging" music too... I think it depends on who >you are tho. > >I'm not trying to sound like my parents but you have >to go out and listen to "proper" music once in a >while, you'll find yourself hating everything else for >a couple of days and then you'll incorporate what >you've "learnt" into your life. That's what happens to >me anyway... Maybe I'm just weird:)
