Beau Mot Plage was definitely a bit of a shock - I had settled into a state of benign antipathy towards most of the new electronic records coming out when suddenly Phil Asher played this amazingly complex and futuristic piece of music on the radio. Beau Mot Plage momentarily brought back that sort of excitement, that feeling that here was a piece of music that in itself represented a small step in the evolution of electronic music... and obviously Beau Mot Plage has nothing in common with loopy techno, nor with the "soul" trend that spw has identified. It's pure techno, doing what it does best.
| -----Original Message----- | From: Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 12 February 2003 16:40 | To: 313@hyperreal.org | Subject: Re: (313) t-1000 interview (techno rant) | | | Yes, I agree. I'm always looking for the next Beau Mot Plage, | or indeed Axis | 11. | | That's the great thing about this list, it keeps you in touch... | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Brendan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "spw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> | Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 4:36 PM | Subject: RE: (313) t-1000 interview (techno rant) | | | But the thing with good techno is that it shouldn't really | endeavour to | sound a hell of a lot like music that was being made ten or fifteen | years ago, surely? Obviously a lot of the music on Drumcode is | influenced by early techno, but I personally don't like something just | because it's derived from something else. The gimmick with | early techno | is that it just sounded so unprecedented (for want of a better word), | while modern loopy techno doesn't carry that excitement. | | What you want is to be able to walk into a record shop, say, | once every | two weeks, and each time you visit the new records have actually | *advanced* in some way beyond the stuff you were listening to on your | last visit. It was probably in the mid 1990s that that sense of | excitement and advancement started to drop out of contemporary techno, | for me. When you look at the original manifestations of loopy techno | (Axis output, the Red releases, etc), they're actually *better* than a | lot of the present-day loopy techno. It doesn't look to me as | if today's | loopy techno has the same level of vitality as loopy techno | did in 1995, | and it certainly doesn't seem to have the vitality that was | there in the | early days of tracks like Funky Funk Funk. | | Brendan | | | -----Original Message----- | | From: spw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Sent: 12 February 2003 15:46 | | To: 313@hyperreal.org | | Subject: Re: (313) t-1000 interview (techno rant) | | | | | | You also hear the influence of repetitive Detroit techno | | tracks like Funky Funk Funk on techno artist like Dave | | Clarke who's Red series was very influential on 90's techno. | | | | | | | |
