That's an interesting one David - certainly his blending of his own musicality with samples is truly seamless sometimes and he creates stuff that's greater than the sum of it's parts - the arrangements are indeed pretty epic. I haven't been so keen on most of his work in the last few years but he's definitely more talented than the average joe.
jason On 3 September 2011 03:38, David Powers <cybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, here's some controversy. In my (quite serious) opinion, THE most > INFLUENTIAL and IMPORTANT Detroit techno artist is > > ... wait for it... > > MOODYMANN. > > I'm not joking, it may be considered house, but I think that the way > Moodymann records are mixed and structured is quite forward thinking, > and maybe the blueprint for things a lot of producers all over the > world now are doing, but certainly were not doing when moodymann > started doing his thing. Jeff Mills also has done some really forward > thinking things with arrangements and mixing, but that aspect of his > output hasn't really been that influential in comparison to Jeff's DJ > style and his trackier side. > > The greatest Moodymann record of all time for me is actually recent by > the way... "it's 2 late 4 u and me"!!! > > Discuss... ;-) > > ~David >
