i've always loved house and techno for their minimalism--a few bits of roland equipment and a four track reel to reel.
i find most contemporary tracks to be as overproduced as any bit of prog. house/trance. it's a challenge to spend any money when i go record shopping. instead, i've taken to re-editing older tracks and saving my money for final scratch. james > >> Wibo Lammert: >>> As to the Mastering: Those first 2 transmats of his sounds like sh*t. That >>> Dark Energy doublepack sounds a whole lot better. >> >> Gotta disagree wth u for the first time old bean (let's not make a habit of >> this ;-) - My opinion is that 'Art of Stalking' along with many other >> seminal Detroit techno (which implies a particular period) benefitted, >> purposefully or not, from the ironic lack of the latest technology at all >> points of the production process. Those trax sound grimy, glitchy, scratchy >> and minimal, sometimes even the sequencing is a bit suspect. But somehow (I >> admit, I'm not sure how) often, all those elements came together to form an >> unmistable kind of human touch which proved there really was a ghost in the >> machine (called soul.) >> k >
