| -----Original Message----- | From: spw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 17 February 2003 13:27 | > | > They are as bad as the people Steve is slagging off, | > because again they are just remaking the early Axis | > releases over and over again. | | You would categorize all the pounding loop based techno as an | Axis rip off? | C'mon now that's being a bit unfair...
I wouldn't necessarily say that's it all a rip-off of early Axis releases, but I *would* say that you could probably count the new elements recent producers have added to that original blueprint on the fingers of one hand. If someone sat down today and made a good track in a Transmat sort of style, even using old equipment and mastering onto a reel-to-reel, I wouldn't slag it off as a "rip-off". But no matter how good it was, or how much I personally liked that track, I wouldn't view them as having advanced the sound of techno music in doing that. I'd say, "you've made a good piece of music in a style that's already been invented", and in a way that's what I thought of saying to, say, Samuel L Sessions when I first heard his remix of "Diabla" - it's not bad, it's not a rip-off, but it's not one step closer to the future by any means. Brendan
