[313] Re: LA Weekly Juan interview
James Hurlbut wrote: The LAWeekly did a cover story on the nine lives of rave this week. Past the obligatory Oakenfold rulez spread is a nice little interview with Juan Atkins where he talks about racial barriers in America and Trance as soulless marching music. Parallel to discussions I've read on this board, he cites a black dude -- one of my homeboys in Detroit (Red Planet - Star Dancer) as the Trance sound's blueprint. Thought someone might be interested, available at www.laweekly.com . Also Larry Heard in LA on November 24th!!! Can't wait for that one. Damn, you beat me to that one, James. Direct link: http://www.LAWeekly.COM/ink/01/50/cover-mathis.shtml Where did you read/hear about Larry Heard coming to LA? - Greg (who's gonna wear his Stardancer t-shirt to raves now) P.S. Am I the only person that gets seemingly-random posts to the list dropped for no reason? I posted last weekend about Richie's LA appearance, and it never showed up in the following Digests. Gr... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[313] Way OT Re: [313] technology vs. art
From the people I have spoken with who have them, the sound quality is about the same as a telephone call. It is a bit tinny, but the technology can only improve. When Direct Neural Interfaces enter the market, then you will see a sharp increase in the quality of these products. One of the benefits of having an aging population in the west is that there is going to be a massive amount of funding for projects like this. The idea of imparting hearing through the electrical stimulation of the nerves between the hearing canal and the brain still blows my mind. Again, the choice between profound deafness and a tinny sound seems an easy choice to me. The more I think about it, the only possible worse form of sense disability would be the lack of touch. And technically, your question about music access is already available. With current Cochlear technology and a wireless data connection, you could literally access your entire digital music collection, pull a song out of the aether, and listen to it through your implants. In 10 years it will be likely that you will not actually own a physical music collection(unless you are a specialist vinyl collector), and you will be able to access it anywhere in a metropolitan area via a wireless citywide LAN. In 25 years you will probably have cochlear implants or a decendant of the concept just as a matter of convienience. Why carry a cell phone or a MP3 player when you can just stream everything into your implant. News, Sports, Weather, anything you need will be available directly through neuro-implants. Anyway, Tristan, after the beating anyone involved with dance music has given their ears over the years, I imagine anything will sound better than our regular hearing in 2025. I will be 48, and you will be 51 I believe. ;) Take care, Mike From: Phonopsia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [313] technology vs. art Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 09:37:40 -0500 - Original Message - From: Mike Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 2:22 AM Subject: Re: [313] technology vs. art Do you want to die of a heart attack when you can have a replacement grown, or have a mechanical one installed? Do you want to be deaf when you can have cochlear implants(which are on the market today)? Will techno sound better through cochlear implants, and is there any way we can download music to them? Tristan -- http://ampcast.com/phonopsia - Music http://phonopsia.tripod.com - Mixes, pics, thought, travelogue info http://www.metatrackstudios.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email FrogboyMCI - AOL Instant Messenger _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [313] LA Weekly Juan interview
The interviewer is *so* El Lay. You've been doing raves since the mid-'80s, starts one question. Oh yeah, and trance more or less evolved out of techno. Not more or less. *Did*. As Juan zeroed in on, the question is what was taken *out* when trace evolved from techno, not what was put in. I would also dispute that Star Dancer is the blueprint for trance; there are quite a few releases in my collection that predate it (I was playing what we would now call trance in 1994 but quickly got away from it, and though I like some of the old tracks the current stuff turns my blood to mush). I don't doubt Star Dancer had a significant impact on a lot of techno and trance. The problem, is, it's a better track than about 99.7% of trance, so if it was a blueprint, nobody was paying much attention to the overall picture. What I think Juan is getting at here is how influential Detroit has been on all the electronic music of the last decade. You could just as easily focus on the influence of the Reese bassline in techstep drum bass. You could also point out that techstep misses out on all the other stuff that makes KMS' stuff so great. What has happened over and over is that European producers have nicked a particularly captivating sound from a Detroit record, and then rebuilt an entire new genre out of it. Over and over. But what's missing is that the great Detroit records are ensemble pieces of many sounds knit together with subtly complex rhythm. That's what makes Star Dancer, a track that influenced trance, *not* a trance record. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[313] Record Sale
Due to my upcoming move to detroit I am selling off a huge chunk of quality vinyl for those interested visit: http://www.hum.auc.dk/~cblo99/sale.html Thank you Christian Bloch http://mp3.com/bloch http://www.mp313.com/christianbloch.htm Tresor/LL/Deep Night Essentials/Simple Muzik/Funque Droppings/Set.Go/Restructured - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[313] Record Sale update
just added 11 more records... sorry for the double post. http://www.hum.auc.dk/~cblo99/sale.html Christian Bloch http://mp3.com/bloch http://www.mp313.com/christianbloch.htm Tresor/LL/Deep Night Essentials/Simple Muzik/Funque Droppings/Set.Go/Restructured - Original Message - From: Christian Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 5:55 PM Subject: [313] Record Sale Due to my upcoming move to detroit I am selling off a huge chunk of quality vinyl for those interested visit: http://www.hum.auc.dk/~cblo99/sale.html Thank you Christian Bloch http://mp3.com/bloch http://www.mp313.com/christianbloch.htm Tresor/LL/Deep Night Essentials/Simple Muzik/Funque Droppings/Set.Go/Restructured - 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]
[313] New (old) mix online
Just noticed a mix of mine that's finally available. It's from an event i was a part of 2yrs ago called M1 (a 54hr dj marathon). Anyways, it was my first attempt at playing on 3 decks - a few rough spots, but what do you expect. The best part about the mix is the sound quality! It's gotta be the worst i've ever heard. It was originally recorded onto a VHS tape, then transferred onto someones hard drive. So, for all you tape hiss lovers... but it just isn't the tape hiss, there's also these weird clicks here and there + level drops. Enough of my ramblings... hope you get the picture. Here's the Real Audio link: http://www.technologix.org/ram/m1/matrix.ram I was so surprised about the find - i had to share it with someone. Cheers! G - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
