But then again, what else can you expect from a promotion company that
spells the word control with a K and uses photoshop to make the
producers it books appear otherworldly, quirky, and "cool".
On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:35 PM, gretchen anderson wrote:
I enjoyed John Tejada and Justin Maxwell quite a bit this weekend.
It's interesting that you say that, but to each her/his own, I guess.
To me their set wouldn't have been enjoyable if they added five laptops
and three analog fx boxes to the sequencers they were operating. What
their music lacked in depth and emotion (aside from John Tajada's few
emotive but far too short moments) they certainly did not make up for
by playing to the crowd, incorporating electro-clash guitar samples and
a whole slew of quirky and gimmicky "glitch" sounds.
It's also interesting to see how the new so-called "minimal" sound is
considered progressive by some magazine music reviewers, while what can
be termed "classic" techno, or at least the original "minimal techno"
of Hood, Mills, Bell, Shakir and others carries the stigma of being
perceived as "soulless, repetitive machine music" to this day, while
exactly the opposite is true of the former and the latter.