Well put. I found that all of the tricks he showed in that video lack any sort of musicality at all.
I'd have rather heard the tracks in their original format on 2 turntables or cd players, mixed well, rather than with the faux breakdowns. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Kowalsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 9:24 PM To: [313] Subject: Re: (313) Richie Hawtin's Traktor setup Saw him playing in my city last wednesday. His set was pretty tasteless, flavourless. My impression was just like that: a bunch of loops scrambled over and over, with a crescendo to make the crowd scream from time to time. It seems that a lot of djs, or producers, are showing up in the stage the capabilities of digital blending, the knob thrill just for the sake of it. Well, techno always had a thing about the process, not focusing on a begining or an end, but this tasteless knob thrill usually turns into a kid play, something like "i'm having fun playing with my lego blocks, aren't you?". Well, it's not really that fun just watch someone else playing lego, cause there's no space for you to get in - the expression of the music was suposed to do that, bring the people into the playing. Kw On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Odeluga, Ken wrote:
