-----Original Message----- From: Tosh Cooey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, October 22, 2000 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [313] is rolando too good for ben sims because of D records?
>All kidding aside, heh heh heh.... A Jaguar question: A few years back >there was a party in Detroit thrown by Dez and the DETOR boys, it had >Murat closing out the night and was in some warehouse right in the city, >maybe near Woodward? Anyway, the last track Murat played as the >warehouse doors opened up to reveal the Detroit skyline and the day was >a stringy UR track that sounded a lot like Jaguar. Has Jaguar been >around this long, or at least the template sound for Jaguar? Is this a >sort of signature sound that has been passed down since Strings of Life, >kinda like the Basic Channel 'whooshiness'. > >Tosh I was spacing off about something like this at work the other day. Does anyone else think Jaguar would never have been as big as it is without all of Derrick May's publicity for Innovator in the year preceding its release - as though Innovator prepared a lot of people's ears for the early Detroit sound? I think a lot of people thought they were *supposed* to like Innovator from the moment they heard it, I mean how many people that are into techno music can say they don't like Strings of Life? Innovator made a lot of unlikely top ten lists a while after it was released, and it strikes me as odd that Jaguar is one of the first "stringy" (in the sense of older synth String of Life strings) songs I can remember hearing after Innovator was released. I remember when I first heard Derrick May records, I liked Strings of Life but I had a lot more trouble getting into his other tracks, probably because the Strings weren't so prominent, and the older sound was pretty foreign to my ears at that point. I'm really tired, not sure if that made sense... Don't get me wrong. I love Innovator and Jaguar, but the popularity of Jaguar is somewhat surprising to me. Conversely, is anyone else surprised Every Dog Has It's Day didn't get the same kind of lasting response or DJ play? Or rather, since I think it was a limited pressing, that it hasn't achieved more of a cult status? Or is it too soon for that? I would definitely put Every Dog Has It's Day in the same catgory. Tristan ========================================== PHONOPSIA<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/5102 "FrogboyMCI" on AOL Instant Messenger "Most people have the cataract. They do not see what they look at. Dum Dee Dum Dee Dum Dee Dum..." - Stereolab _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
