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From: Matt MacQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I don't care for it at all, personally. It sounds cheap, thin,
and
>corny to me. I have the utmost respect for Rolando and his past
>productions, as a DJ, a producer, etc... but I found this record
just
>so weak by comparison. I even like the concept... but the
execution
>just didn't cut it IMHO. Your mileage may vary...
i see it as one of the new UR sounding records that actually seems
to be doing something wildly different from what is going on
elsewhere in techno. while VA and real analogue synths as well as
soft synth recreations of them are still massively popular, it
seems like UR is taking the ROM or sample based recreations of
actual instruments and are making future jazz-funk from it. for
example, the "live" version of hi tech jazz, or the timeline
version of return of the dragons. my mother's guitarra is just
like a latin version of that same style that no one else is
jocking right now. give it time, i bet many copycats will pop up
using "real" sounds from synths. IMO it gives their tunes a really
strange plastic hi-fi vibe.
tom
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