On Nov 22, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Clifton Dobbie wrote:
I second that. Kontrol peepz put on a great nite out!! last month was
magda, last weekend was tejada, and next month is dan bell.
what more can we ask for in the bay area? =)
Would be nice to see artists other than the ones associated with
Hawtin's and Villalobos's labels, for starters.
thx greg and the others!
-----Original Message-----
From: dave cronin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:51 AM
To: Wojtek; gretchen anderson; 313
Subject: Re: (313) Tejada/Maxwell in SF
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.
