Hyperactive has always been 'techno' but not Detroit techno. The whole hotjamz crew have their own take on techno that's a lot closer to what a midwest raver would consider techno -- dark, tracky, minimal, hard. Frankie Vega is kind of the king of this style. Personally a little of this goes a long way -- it's too relentless and monotonous.
It's kind of like someone started from Jeff Mills, and took out the dynamics and mutant funk that can make his sets exciting. Or maybe a closer comparison, Hyperactive's a more blue collar, no-nonsense version of Richie Hawtin. I mean, I like a lot of what Richie has done, but he's a big enough nerd to try and have a conceptual framework to what he's doing. Some might call it pretentious, some ubercoolische. In contrast, Hyperactive's conceptual framework is banging it out with a rack of chilled 40s and a bucket of Popeye's Chicken next to the decks. If you go to djhyperactive.com there's a track on the main page that initially sounds very Detroit, but once the major 7th chord loop has played unmodified for 8 minutes solid, it wears out it's welcome. On 7/20/06, Tristan Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just checked the DJ Hyperactive myspace page and his new stuff is sounding quite a bit more techno than the Contact stuff I've got from the mid-90s. Worth a check. Anyone know if this is a recent turn of events, or have I just been sleeping?
