Interesting you say that, I thought the same when I was playing a Theo Parrish compilation this weekend, one track didn't sound as clear as it could be but it actually enhanced it. Made it sound 'old', in a good way. I think hip-hop brought in the idea of textured recordings. I like it too.
> Wibo Lammert: >>As to the Mastering: Those first 2 transmats of his sounds like sh*t. That >>Dark Energy doublepack sounds a whole lot better. > > Gotta disagree wth u for the first time old bean (let's not make a habit of > this ;-) - My opinion is that 'Art of Stalking' along with many other > seminal Detroit techno (which implies a particular period) benefitted, > purposefully or not, from the ironic lack of the latest technology at all > points of the production process. Those trax sound grimy, glitchy, scratchy > and minimal, sometimes even the sequencing is a bit suspect. But somehow (I > admit, I'm not sure how) often, all those elements came together to form an > unmistable kind of human touch which proved there really was a ghost in the > machine (called soul.) > k
