On 6/19/07, kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wasn't taken by the samples of that Victor Casanova record, but Claude Von Stroke has made some tracks I really like. "Beware the Bird" sticks with me, and makes me happy when I hear it, and though it has a jokey title, the music is serious. And the "Whistler" is kind of a gimmick track that people will get sick of if it's played too much, but I like it on its own terms.
"whistler" sounds to me like a wannabe chicago jam. dood sampled himself playing a resonating filter with the cutoff. pretty weak. "beware of the bird" sounds like he was listening to carl craig's recent productions and wished he could be as ill as carl is. he is not. basically, i dont hear anything original, nor are the knockoffs or borrowed ideas inspired enough to make them noteworthy in any way.
And the proof is in the playing out IMHO. CvS gets a visceral reaction from a dancefloor. People who want to dance hear what they like. Whether we'll be talking about it in a hundred years, well, _I_ won't be talking about anything in a hundred years, so for me it's right now that matters.
if its really just about a visceral reaction, heavy metal will do that much better than CvS ever would. trance music gets a visceral reaction too. but so does good music, though it can do many other things at the same time and still also be good to listen to in places other than a club. tom
