That's an interesting idea. I think if you dragged me, in a time machine, from 1995, and played me the Drumcode stuff, I'd have been a bit disappointed at how little progress seemed to have been made. "This stuff already exists!" I'd have told you, while throwing Axis records at you. Perhaps there'd be a bit more polish to the productions, but that's not what I'd count as "advancement"... ie, I consider Minimal Nation to be a more "advanced" piece of music than anything on Drumcode really.
Brendan | -----Original Message----- | From: spw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 12 February 2003 16:09 | To: Brendan Nelson; 313@hyperreal.org | Subject: Re: (313) t-1000 interview (techno rant) | | | If you showed toady's techno to someone in the mid 90's it | would sound more advanced, they might not like what they | hear though. | I think this was T1000's point about not enough quality | techno being released although there are other good forms of | electronic music. | | on 2/12/03 10:36 AM, Brendan Nelson at | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > But the thing with good techno is that it shouldn't really | endeavour to | > sound a hell of a lot like music that was being made ten or fifteen | > years ago, surely? Obviously a lot of the music on Drumcode is | > influenced by early techno, but I personally don't like | something just | > because it's derived from something else. The gimmick with | early techno | > is that it just sounded so unprecedented (for want of a | better word), | > while modern loopy techno doesn't carry that excitement. | > | > What you want is to be able to walk into a record shop, | say, once every | > two weeks, and each time you visit the new records have actually | > *advanced* in some way beyond the stuff you were listening | to on your | > last visit. It was probably in the mid 1990s that that sense of | > excitement and advancement started to drop out of | contemporary techno, | > for me. When you look at the original manifestations of loopy techno | > (Axis output, the Red releases, etc), they're actually | *better* than a | > lot of the present-day loopy techno. It doesn't look to me | as if today's | > loopy techno has the same level of vitality as loopy techno | did in 1995, | > and it certainly doesn't seem to have the vitality that was | there in the | > early days of tracks like Funky Funk Funk. | > | > Brendan | |
