I think it's too cynical to say that Luke is doing it for 'the money'. I think there is a wide perception that techno - or more importantly, what is known as 'techno', ie 'hard music' - is in need of a rebirth and it seems that 'techno' artists as diverse as Slater and Stacey Pullen and Jeff Mills are going in different directions, even Juan Atkins/Model 500 with that cyber era R&B song Rain. Slater's work has personality in it. I am not a fan of this new work (though I loved Wireless), but I respect what he is trying to do. He's now signed to Mute as opposed to Novamute too.
---------- >From: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [313] Luke Slater the Pop princess >Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 6:23 PM > > Also (my tupenny worth :o) Seems to me that as a family man and all now, it > strikes him that the fun but not entirely profitable artistic detours he's > tended to take are a bit too much of a risk nowadays. What really worked for > him recently? "All exhale"; therefore he's doing more of the same ... as a > project (the '80s thing) I for one think it'll improve. It's not like he's > become a very untalented bloke overnight. > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Cyclone Wehner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 6:38 PM >>To: 313 Detroit >>Subject: Re: [313] Luke Slater the Pop princess >> >> >>I loved Wireless (some of it reminded me of the kind of music you hear - or >>should hear - on space documentaries) but I am not feeling the new single >>either - it sounds like the kinda ravey stuff you heard in the mid-90s with >>a vocal tacked on. We have a guy in Australia who does the same kind of >>stuff, Honeysmack - it's kinda 'party like it's 1991', not old enough to be >>retro, just really dated. The mixes are very non-descript. >> >>I have the album and will play tonight (report soon, I am hopeful) - it's >>out in April, I was told. >> >>Re: Planetary Assault Systems, this is from an interview I did late last >>year. I think it's a good thing to wind up, that last album sounded very >>derivative to me. >> >>Interestingly, Slater is finishing off Planetary Assault Systems. >>"I haven't >>really got the time or the feeling I used to have to do Planetary and I >>don't wanna keep on doing it just because I can sell a few records or >>whatever, so that was the last album," he says. "You suddenly realise that >>things have changed and you have just moved on." >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
