hey now. no one says you have to love the music, but that's a bit out of order. no reason to take potshots at the kontrol peeps just for following a couple techno conventions/cliches.
these guys put the on night out of a love of the music at a time when no one else in SF would touch the more avante side of techno/techhouse. luckily for the rest of us who just show up once a month, it's been successful and FUN. -d --- Wojtek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >
