Slowing things down, speeding them up, cutting almost all the sound out is amazing in the right hands. Hawtin can work it, as it were, but I like my minimalism served up more ornately.
That's really lame that people suddenly liked the minimal techno when you told them it was "deep house". It makes me think of that Frank Tovey line: "the package is the prize". Would they have offered you free glowsticks and hair gel if you later told them it was progressive trance? On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:42:27AM -0800, Joel Gajewski wrote: > LOL @ "furniture music" > > Sure, I suppose you are correct, too. And by no means am I saying that I > don't appreciate what he is doing, but the emotion seems to be lacking > sometimes. His tunes were always minimal-esque, even back before he kissed > Sven Vath :p, but he seemed to slow things down, speed them up, cut almost > all the sound out, during his sets. Now, his sets just kind of bump the > whole way through. Perhaps I am stuck on his X-Mix and Mixmag cd's from a > decade ago. I will say, after an attempt to not be a music snob, I checked > out a two part mix of Sasha doing the Albelton thing and Rich's sets are far > more interactive/interesting. Ugh, you can really tell why the whole > progressive thing was never really progressive from the begining. > > I did try opening with some minimal the last time I played out and the party > people were not feeling it at all, so I started to tell people that it was > "deep house" and they loved it. :D Techno of any sort gets no love here. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: darnistle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 11:02:25 PM > Subject: Re: (313) Mills' Last Weekend Tracklist Update > > > But isn't that part of the lure or Hawtin-styled minimalism that it works as > subtle background-as-foreground music, aka furniture music? > > > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:18:10AM -0800, Joel Gajewski wrote: > > I think that this brings up a very strong point that I tend to discuss with > > other music geeks, like me. When is too much technical focus too much? It > > seems that Rich, while a great dj, seems to have focused on the technical > > aspect of his sets, whereas he used to really focus on the crowd and the > > track selection. He was never a bad dj, but his sets used to seem a bit > > more human, inspirational. Sure, Mills will wreck a few times, but he is > > always trying something new with the music, using that emotion as a > > catalyst. Plus, he usually has three records going at once, cutting > > between them in a frenzy, like a wizard :p. Just my .02. > > > > Joel > >
