RE:
"I have come to the Mayday Parade to find out what makes techno tick. But
first, a confession. My principal experience of this music was a visit in
1990 to the London club Heaven on techno night. I spent six hours there
chewing my cheeks and clinging to a pillar for fear that the world would
collapse should I let go, and the brutal, never-ending beats and undulating
waves of electronic pulses merely confused me. So the idea of spending a
night in the company of 22,000 German ravers with spiky green hair was not a
pleasant one. This would be an exercise in confronting my demons and making
sense of this thing."
They obviously sent the wrong person.
"These DJs include Jeff Mills, who, as one of the members of uncompromising
Detroit covert operation Underground Resistance, shares the techno tradition
of being deeply suspicious of celebrity. He makes music that is spartan,
cerebral and detested by the average happy-house fan. There's DJ Hell,
famous for creating an ear-bleeding, stomach-pounding noise; and Mayday
co-founder Westbam, who records an anthem for the festival each year, makes
dark, simple electro trance that crescendos and sends German kids into a
frenzy. There's the notorious Sven Vath, with his precision goatee and high
profile, whose grandiose electronic pomposities make him techno's answer to
Rick Wakeman."
Did this guy stop his research in 1995? He's waaay behind the current sounds
of these artists and Jeff Mills hasn't been a part of UR for how long now??
"Last year, Sony Records Germany made the mistake of trying to get round
this by releasing a note-for-note cover version of the UR track Jaguar by DJ
Rolando. Banks heard about it, caught the first plane to Germany, armed
himself, sought out the man proposing the release and told him that he would
kill him and everyone else involved if the version went ahead..."
What?! Does anyone know if this is the way it went down? If this is
unsubstantiated then I would presume that UR can bring some legal action
against the Gaurdian for printing such a statement.
Hack job. Bad. Very very bad.
MEK
From: "Mann, Ravinder [CCS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '313' <[email protected]>
Subject: [313] mayday festival
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 11:51:01 +0100
"WORLD LARGEST TECHNO FESTIVAL" - really!?!?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,482416,00.html
Article from today The Guardian...I think they need to replace the word
techno with trance a number of times.
"But looking at this crowd, Underground Resistance's manifesto
seems a world away. The Detroit pioneers wished to create a
faceless music where the machine, not the person, was the
star. At 3am the crowd greeted Sven Vath with a roar. "
I think the above quote for me was all that was needed to be said, the
rest?
pure jibberish and misinformation imho. Any thoughts..
Am I getting just too cynical in my old age?
Rav
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