Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 about following:
On 2/17/06, Sakari Karipuro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
are both really horrible sound-wise, really cheap and cheesy. the
have you heard the original track? i mean, carl may have chosen the
No, i have not.
The kickdrum has no bottoms
it doesnt need it. i mean we can get into a discussion about mixdowns,
but if you have a bassy kick and a bassline at the same time, they
clash frequencies and you get lots of farting. the track has plenty of
bass so its a tradeoff.
It's all about "ducking" the bassline away from the kick, with sidechain
compressor. or being really picky about the frequencies and using eq and
multiband.
"tech-house" or whatever it's called nowadays. Most of the stuff sounds
so weak and emotionless, lacking groove and funk (which has plagued
"techno" overall for the whole 00's i think).
i feel you on that, but not on this track. or anything carl has done
recently. even after the sh*t i talked on "sandstorms" when he
released it, after hearing it on a loud system i understood what he
was doing. and really, this remix is in that same vein as that track,
and the angel/darkness 12". he definitely seems to have a new
production style, its very sleek and dark and really is meant to be
experienced on a dancefloor with a good sound system. i dont think
that detracts from the quality of music he's doing.
Jaguar, aguila etc copycats already worn this style out years ago. It's
not very innovative, it's like you know you wait the track to build up
in similar manner like ~11 years ago you expected to hear the
snare-roll. it's like waiting the trance-track to peak up after the
break with supersaw. It's sort of novelty production trick, like the
snare-roll, supersaw, dub-style-delay, 3/4 rhythms that have been used
too much, perhaps occasionally just building a track around the trick
forgetting all about basics, therefor making quite inferior track. And
I think this is what happened with this track.
sakke
