> What about Sleazy D - I've Lost Control on Trax? I always thought > that Losing Control was sort of a remake of that...
Dan has I think before cited that as an influence, but if you take the two tracks it could hardly be considered a "remake" or even sample-fodder. Sleazy D "I've Lost Control" and DBX "Losing Control" about the only similar thing is the words in the title. I am a big fan of both tracks BTW. Let me explain for those who haven't heard both: Sleazy D's track (on Trax, circa late 80s?) is very dense, busy, acidic, noisy, has evil laughter, dark voice but never really modulated, very thick and gloomy/scary track. Vintage acid house, also called 'guilt trip' house... similar in flavor to Bam Bam's "Where is your child?" for big dark chicago warehouse scare factor. By comparison the DBX track is textbook minimal by design, very sparse. The vocal sample comes forward and is very filtered. It's hardly a rip-off in the way of sound in any way IMHO. As a trivia note Dan Bell did a live PA at Detroit's Sardine bar (a party thrown by 7th City, Planet E and M-plant) where he rocked a landmark live PA of "Losing Control" (combined/resampled with his signature track "Raw")where he swapped out his word "control" with a pop tune in the track's repetitive vocal... See if you can ID it, it's not hard. :) Again, not exactly a rip off or a remake, just a sample, there's quite a difference. ;) I shot some video and photos of this party for REVERB back in 1996, here's a link to the page with the clips... http://www.reverbmag.com/sardine.html - [scroll down, the clip is 'DBX Looms In the Shadows'.] sorry the video is really dark. You can also hear in the crowd the energy and excitement this track generated near the peak of it's release, I remember Rob Hood and Claude Young standing by watching Dan's PA and TOTALLY getting down. The whole Josh Wink thing actually makes me sick when you consider how much new ground Dan broke with his own style, a great combo of the best of raw chicago trax and detroit funky minimalism.... in the annals of techno one will be remembered as an innnovator the other a purveyor of cheesey snare-roll build up tracks... like Winks the "SORTED" record label art wasn't cheesey enough? Yick. Cheers, Matt MacQueen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
