> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: (313) FW: Environ Newsletter - metro area 5!
> But, and here's the thing. Can Metro Area really lay 'claim' > to that sound? <snip snip> I don't think they really lay "claim" to that sound. It seems to me that they are paying homage to many musical flavors collected over a lifetime of listening. It's unique in the sense that, when it's all put together, it sounds rather different and unique and forward looking in a retro kind of a way. Disco, Boogie, Italo, House, Detroit, etc. are the musical roots of their sound and the tree gives off some rather nice fruit. If you put a gun to my head and asked me to finger someone for helping to expose that whole 70's/early 80's thing to an influential producer audience, one might pick Danny Wang. He was putting out these quirky disco-esque records, often at very slow bpms (relative to the current dancefloor shtick at the time) back in the early nineties way before it was fashionable to do so. While you were dancing to Charly, he was releasing "Like Some Dream I Cant Stop Dreaming". > Having said that, I do think Metro Area is a very ace > project. I'd like to see it go further now, I reckon vocals > and song stuff would go brilliantly like this If you look at their catalogue you will find that their stuff is already quite musical. Violins, vocals, etc...it's all in the mix so to speak. Better we should let the artists take us where they may.... >
