techno isnt selling how it used to. I'd hate to have relied on selling my music(ha) for the past few years, as I'd imagine I'd have to make the choice between getting a dayjob or releasing something suited a bit more for mass consumption.
enough of me and my recently jaded opinions, sorry. -Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "313 Detroit" <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:27 AM Subject: Re: (313) Is this the new Swayzak sound? > It is. I went to Japan lately for work and hung out with those guys at a > festival I covered. They're not selling out, they're very underground in > ethos. They didn't do the ad without thinking and were worried about > appearing in it but deemed it a worthwhile outlet since it's hard for them > to get exposure elsewhere. They do have a live band type set up now and one > of the guys doesn't tour. They have a singer. I think with the changes over > the albums they just don't want to get in a stylistic box. They were > bewildered with the electroclash tag for Dirty Dancing, saying they'd always > done electro. I do remember them playing here years ago and it was very > different to what they're doing now. > The only small thing I have is if you want to do vocal music you need a good > song - a hook - of some kind or the music is in limbo and they need to > develop that. Jeff Mills once explained to me and a promoter here that even > a techno producer has to have a hook, all music does, and that stuck with > me. > Hopefully I will post the Swayzak interview soon. > > > > Weird - I just saw an advert on tv last night for a phone - there is a guy > > on a bullet type train and he's walking from car to car. He flips open his > > phone and it says 'SWAYZAK' on the screen. > > > > He then turns around and there is a full glam/garage rock band behind him. > > Drummer, guitarist, lead singer, etc. Very fuzzed out overdriven guitar > > rock style. The band was looking quite glam in purple suits and sh*t. Like > > a very bright version of the Hives. > > > > the music was nothing like I've heard from previous Swayzak releases. It > > sounded nothing like the great deep dub house/techno from > > "Snowbaording...", "Himawari", or even the last electrocash one. It was all > > heard-it-before garage glam rock crap. > > > > Can this be the same Swayzak?! > > > > MEK > >
