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From: Jason Brunton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I would have to back up KJ on this one- certainly in terms of the
last
>6 or 7 Transmat records, the quality is not what I would call
>earth-shattering so putting trust in the Big D is pretty risky these
>days. I'm certainly not slating all the releases, just don't think
>they are particularly amazing or particularly different from what
else
>is out there. I am a huge, huge Transmat fan from way back but it's
>not a case of me wanting to hear a re-hash of Nude Photo or
anything so
>that's not my problem, just that the general quality threshold
seems to
>dropped dramatically since Time:Space and Aril Brikah
id argue that all day long. i havent heard the Rodenbush release,
but the only other releases since aril have been the john arnold
and john beltran (both of which were very very nice) and the
stephen browns, which were not classics, but still pretty high
quality stuff. transmat isnt my favorite label, and im certainly
not a derrick may fanboy, but overall i trust the guy's taste to
be at least decent and at best fantastic. "deepartures in time" is
my favorite techno record as well as possibly my favorite record
ever.
tom
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