the swedes produced volvos, prototype airline stewards, absolut, abba, bjorn borg........ all these people/ entities were successful, methodical, efficient,.... but people are people, we have to feed our souls, and swedish techno went out with fad diets..................for that guy [child] to say that mills / hood are brothers on another planet, makes sense- the clinical nature of his music puts him on par with the writing of j.g. ballard, and the person who made the film where two doctor brothers trade metal instruments...out.bond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "313 Detroit" <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 1:26 AM Subject: [313] Swedish Techno
> I think the antagonism to the Swedish stuff arises from the fact that the > likes of Cari and Adam have been so prolific - saturating the market and > subscribing to a formula, even inadvertently. Also it's not material that > you can listen to in different environments necessarily, like on a walkman > in the tram/bus. As DJ tool material, it's OK, but maybe people are not > using it very adventurously. Also I doubt if anyone aside from a > trainspotter could recognise or name a track by either those guys or > Christian Smith - it's very anonymous. It's not like there is a stand-out > track like Jaguar, The Bells, etc. > > It's cyclical and I would say that those guys are are mostly moving on > anyway. > > One great track in that genre is Andrew McLauchlan's (sp) Love Story - but I > am assuming he's British. > > Sure Surgeon and Ruskin and more so Ho subscribe to a more intellectual > ethos but that said Surgeon insisted in an interview here that he has no > affinity with the Mills/Hood cerebralism at all when it comes to techno and > that it's more like having sex for him (his analogy) - a physical urge. > Ruskin's album Point 2 is very derivative of Mills, I feel, but as a DJ he > is excellent. > > >Awww... poor you. Well, it ain't called the Detroit > >313 mailing list fer nothing. Listen to 3 hours of > >easy listening Burt Bacharach style and you'll grow to > >hate "banging" music too... I think it depends on who > >you are tho. > > > >I'm not trying to sound like my parents but you have > >to go out and listen to "proper" music once in a > >while, you'll find yourself hating everything else for > >a couple of days and then you'll incorporate what > >you've "learnt" into your life. That's what happens to > >me anyway... Maybe I'm just weird:) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
