Okay... I've held myself from pressing the reply key throughout the course
of this thread, but I have to stick up for my admiration of the Tokomak 002
record.
I have only the 002 record, and Have yet to get a listen from the 001 album,
but the track produced by Don Williams on 002 is absolutely blinding to me!
Its on Side one track one (I beleive), and it has a violin that plays a
super catchy line. I would have to disagree on the comment that the volume
fading is annoying (if this is the track you were talking about), and that
the filtered drum kit was immature (?I don't see how music can be
immature...?) and lacked production ideas. I do know, however, that when I
heard this in the record store on my overseas trip, it was a must buy from
moment # 1. Everytime I play this track out, everyone screams and shouts at
the breakdown, especially when the half beats start and biuld into the solo
violin once more...
I think its easy to pick tracks apart, (especially when you see some
competition in it - i.e. if you produce tracks also), and that we should all
(of course) have our opinions, but that we should not totally rip into
musical works. I think that way of thinking is far to close-minded, and
that the understanding that all tastes of music are different and everyone
has their own, is a much better way to present it.
Sorry I wasted so much time explaining a topic that many will find as "off
topic", but I really love that song. One of my favorites.
Dennis Donohue
From: "Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "313@Hyperreal.Org" <313@hyperreal.org>
Subject: Re: [313] TOKOMAK online mp3s
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:55:59 -0800
At Peter's suggestion I went back and relistened to TOKOMAK 2. Here is my
extended review.
Track 1: Bronson's Gruv:
great bassline and nice synth stab (again sounds a little too much like a
preset to me). the thing that ruins this track is all the other percussion
(hihats and 909 like claps) chugs like an off kilter horse and ruins any
gruv you might have been enjoying at the outset of the track. Filtering to
a subtle comeback after the breakdown the track makes all the same mistakes
again. Trying to hard to compete with something like Aril Brykha 'Groove
La
Chord' and coming up short.
Track 2: The Rhythm Culture:
Horrible claps from the start (reminiscent of some old progressive house
records), bad samples (my girlfriend says it sounds like a horrible garbled
dog) and even worse the progressive old Terry Lee Brown Jr accented crash
cymbals overused to bad effect. Again transparent filtering (enough to
make
one seasick). I can't say enough bad things about this track.
Track 3: Expanding Possibilities:
Possibly the best track on TOKOMAK 002. Very old Detroit, with the
exception of the annoying use of the the volume fade on the synth. The
percussion is by far the grooviest of the three (girlfriend bobs her head
up
and down to this one). TOO MUCH FILTERING shows the lack of production
maturity and ideas. While the breakdowns are short and well nicer than any
others, the lack of movement throughout the percussion makes this track
just
as stale as the others.
As they said in Ninja Scroll:
'Power with out Perception is useless and only a tool'
todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "peter mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [313] TOKOMAK online mp3s
> i guess you didn't check out the tracks from the second release (tkm002)
?
> if not, doing so maybe will change your view.
>
> peter
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Todd Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 313@Hyperreal.Org <313@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 5:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [313] TOKOMAK online mp3s
>
>
> : Sounds like they all used the same sample cd, in fact most of the
bongo
> : patterns are recycled throughout different tracks.
> :
> : Good tracks for whatever they are worth, no innovation and a distinct
> : similarity to too many other tracks out there.
> :
> : I wasted my time yet again...
> : todd
> : ----- Original Message -----
> : From: "Christian Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> : To: "313" <313@hyperreal.org>
> : Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:57 PM
> : Subject: [313] TOKOMAK online mp3s
> :
> :
> : > maybe someone already posted this???
> : >
> : > you can find quite a lot of tracks from the TOKOMAK label at
> : > http://mp3.com/tokomak thought that might be of interest to some of
> you.
> : not
> : > exactly my style, but very high quality productions nonetheless.
> : >
> : > Christian Bloch
> : > www.mp3.com/bloch
> : > Tresor/LL/Deep Night Essentials/Simple Muzik/Funque Droppings/Set.Go
> : >
> : >
> : >
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