I would just like to second scott's comments here. Around 93/95 Dave Angel was one of my top rated DJs. He was always massively inventive and kept u interested throughout his sets. I have one brilliant tape of his here which I still play regularly to this day. I saw Dave play about 3 times in reasonably quick succession about a year ago, twice here in and around London and once on continent - cant remember where. I was very disappointed on each of the 3 occasions. There's a very close tight-knit nepotic London techno scene and my sentiments go the same way about the triumvirate. Will Umek (http://www.groovetech.com/PhoenixData/SilverStream/Pages/srvltRecMed?Record edMediaID=69685) who I have playing in the background come to rue the day?
Sorry to waffle and now side track - I saw Umek / Valentino down the End on Saturday Night at Billy's "Open to Torture". I'd seen the trio at Atomic Jam on NYE and thought Valentino played a mighty impressive set. This time I thought he sucked ... so boring. In fact my m8s went home. I'm a stalwart ... and thank god. Umek started off in the same lame vein Valentino had finished off. It took him about 20 minutes to find his groove (and he's got it about 17/18 mins into the Groovetech set again) and from there, well, probably one of the best sets I've heard in the last 18 months. I totally enjoyed listening to something which kept me interested and sounded so very different. I'm sorry, I'm not a DJ, not a producer, not a mixer - so I don't know one tune from another but I think I have a good ear : I cant tell you what he does which is different but I certainly but Umek up on the pedestal I once held Mr Angel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "s mcgill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "313" <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 12:41 Subject: Re: [313] Black techno artists > hmm. I don't know where this thread started but to comment on these two > artistically I would say that Angel has lost his way recently (in mine > eyes), Rockliffe isn't a bad dj but I am not too sure about his productions. > He needs to move way from that Carl Cox, Billy Nasty, Jim Masters stable to > evolve (if he has that in the tank - remains...). > > Rachmad is probably the most in touch detroit-influenced black producer I > can think of over here and he is from Holland. Everyone else is lost in the > commercial cancer that is UK garage. 4-hero are too much of an innovation > now to be linked with influences all the time, 'the boyz done good.' > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
