on 12/3/02 4:21 AM, Tristan Watkins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 4 o'clock rolled around really quickly. Hood wasted no time ramping up. It > was at least an hour and a half of solid punishment. I didn't recognize a > lot of the tracks, but they were superb. The only way I can describe it is > to say it sounded like the thick, chunky beats of European techno with a bit > more variance than usual layered with some severely twisted and haunting > melodies on top. His mixing was excellent. I think I only heard the beat > slip once, and he was right on it - and that is within the context of a > really agressively mixed set. He played a lot of records and was in the mix > at least 60-70% of the time. Most of the remainder of the time was spent > searching for records. He was scratching and cutting left and right. You > name it. Really impressive. I'm really glad I got to see it. I just read > John O's technotourist interview yesterday, and Hood's own 'punishment' > description suited it best I think. 'Murder, murder, murder. Kill, kill, > kill!' >
Someone should archive one of these Hood mixes and post it online. Jeff Mills was at his best when he had a more agressive techno, dj style.
