The interviewer is *so* El Lay. "You've been doing raves since the mid-'80s," starts one question.
Oh yeah, and "trance more or less evolved out of techno." Not "more or less." *Did*. As Juan zeroed in on, the question is what was taken *out* when trace evolved from techno, not what was put in. I would also dispute that Star Dancer is the blueprint for trance; there are quite a few releases in my collection that predate it (I was playing what we would now call trance in 1994 but quickly got away from it, and though I like some of the old tracks the current stuff turns my blood to mush). I don't doubt Star Dancer had a significant impact on a lot of techno and trance. The problem, is, it's a better track than about 99.7% of trance, so if it was a blueprint, nobody was paying much attention to the overall picture. What I think Juan is getting at here is how influential Detroit has been on all the electronic music of the last decade. You could just as easily focus on the influence of the "Reese bassline" in techstep drum & bass. You could also point out that techstep misses out on all the other stuff that makes KMS' stuff so great. What has happened over and over is that European producers have nicked a particularly captivating sound from a Detroit record, and then rebuilt an entire new genre out of it. Over and over. But what's missing is that the great Detroit records are ensemble pieces of many sounds knit together with subtly complex rhythm. That's what makes Star Dancer, a track that influenced trance, *not* a trance record. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
