I'm loving the percussion on these tracks. The snaps on Keeping You
Satisfied and the grime flavour, or kinda krunky like one said, on
Majestic Line. The clavinet on Aggregate Goals. And i don't dig his
jazzy side too much either. With a few exceptions, i usually don't
like when things try to be literally jazzy, because i think jazz is
already filtered into house and techno. I like things being jazzy in
syntax, not in timbre. One of the most stupid labels i've ever seen
around is funky house. House is born funky.
On 29/03/2008, at 05:52, robin wrote:
heard the very short clips over at Sounds of the Universe (http://
www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=11456) and i very much
like what i heard.
Forgive me as i haven't been following Moodymann lately, I thought
he was either getting to housey or formulaic for my tastes, but
has he been on some sort of new tip? or is the clip too short and
the tracks develop differently?
Here the blurb says "Kenny Dixon Jr keeps on developing his
signature sound in unexpected new directions and this single
represents another exciting step forward!" From what i hear it
seems he has been making stripped down dirty techno (God forbid i
say the word "minimal") and the last track sounds almost krunk.
His last couple of things have kind of been going in this
direction, kind of muddy live funk (the Mick Collins related
things) - this particular 12 is like a cross between that live funk
vibe and the electronic side I prefer. I find that more interesting
than his jazzy side which I don't really dig that much (and it's
easy to see why someone would stop watching his output if the jazzy
stuff doesn't hit you).
robin...
