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From: "Chris O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I can see collectors being all over the seemingly "underground"
style hand
>written white labels, but that's not what I buy records.
you already know how i feel about the music chris, but its not
just the white labels with handwritten info that is whats great.
the guy is totally DIY, sitting in his house with his kids and a
bunch of old drum machines, banging out nasty jacking house music.
its got that spirit of the original house music. i know alot of
people put time and effort into having nice studios, picture
labels, full color jackets, etc and thats cool for them. for me,
house music is like hiphop and punk music. if you look at those
pics that were in XLR8R a couple years back in their chicago issue
of the old house cats in their "studios", youd see something that
looks far more like omar-s' setup (you can see it on the CD cover)
than something that looks like alexander kowalski or richie hawtin
being interviewed on native instruments' website. its the look,
the feel, the spirit, the sound, all those things combined. for me
thats why i love his stuff, though of course it all comes down to
the music first since thats all i had to go on while i was banging
out the first records he put out. its like the punk rock of house
music. that hits me hard.
tom
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