Well I'll be joining you on that pire Robin! Much as I still feel that the UR, Submerge and now Ignita (Orlando Voorn) camp throws up some very memorable records each year, I have to say that - maybe due to what seems to me as the increase in volume of these records over the last few years - you also get some stuff which is puzzlingly mediocre at best.
One example: the last Red Planet but one, RP11, "The Revenge of The Wolf". It was more or less monotone, and it had no variation. Before you could say: "Oh it's a dj tool", in the mix, you quickly realized that the breakdowns weren't timed correctly and it didn't come back in on the beat. But in the same year we also had 'Transition/Inspiration' so perhaps it's somewhat churlish to complain really. How many techno records that good does the average producer produce in 5 years? It seems to me Mike Banks has one every three years at least... To an extent, for me, this makes up for the raft of stuff he and his protege's produce which doesn't hit the mark. I mean, no amount of 'Acuators' or 'Analog Assasins' will match the quality of an 'Amazon', (say), but at least there is a choice. I'd agree with Robin that it does seem to be an issue of quantity and quality, sometimes there is a mismatch, usually not a huge one, but perhaps because we've grown to expect great stuff from UR over the years, it's a more noticable one. My ha'pennies worf! k >-----Original Message----- >From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 12:38 PM >To: 'Brendan Nelson'; [email protected] >Subject: RE: (313) New records > > > > >you know what brendan, i feel the same way about this release too (i did >buy it tho all the same). > >more and more i feel this way about a lot of the UR stuff that comes out >at the moment too. is it just me? (actually it might be, my tastes swing >around wildly depending on my mood). the quality/quantity ratio recently >seems to be dipping. > >of course i realise i'll probably be burned at the stake for this >comment :) > > > >robin... > > >-> >-> Los Hermanos - Tres (Los Hermanos) >-> Hopefully I won't get flamed too badly for saying this, but >-> I was definitely quite disappointed with this release. The >-> first LH record was a blinder, IMHO, and the second was >-> nearly as good if not so much of an outright classic. But I >-> get the feeling that there was a bit of a "will this do?" >-> attitude at work in the making of this EP. None of the >-> tracks would be out of place on a Los Hermanos EP, not to >-> get me wrong - but they're all filler tracks, in a way. >-> There's nothing that "leads" the EP in the way that "Birth >-> of 3000" or "Quetzal" do, and I think the record suffers for >-> that. The four tracks on here are all very rhythmically >-> driven, but the rhythms aren't as layered or engrossing as >-> earlier drummy LH tracks like "Son Dos" are. A bit of a drop >-> in quality here, IMHO, but I appreciate that many others >-> won't agree... >-> >-> Brendan >-> > > >
