actually it seems jaguar blew up after the huge magazine press UR got for standing its ground against Sony/BMG ... in the UK this got a LOT of press even in more mainstream magazines and even ended up getting reviewed in a few newspapers ...
UR released the CD version on 430 with the express purpose of getting the 'real' jaguar out to as meany ears as possible, to kill the rip off.. the underground community seemed to be galvanised and united more than I have seen it in a while, and there was certainly a very big buzz going around. rather ironic that it took a lame trance rip-off that very few people have ever heard to bring UR into public focus! i for one like jaguar as much as I did when I first heard it, no more because of the hype, and no less because it is now popular. i'd hate to see people start to diss UR because they are no longer 'underground' enough ... if this is the only reason ppl liked them in the first place then they need to re-evaluate their priorities. ------------ I was spacing off about something like this at work the other day. Does anyone else think Jaguar would never have been as big as it is without all of Derrick May's publicity for Innovator in the year preceding its release - as though Innovator prepared a lot of people's ears for the early Detroit sound? I think a lot of people thought they were *supposed* to like Innovator from the moment they heard it, I mean how many people that are into techno music can say they don't like Strings of Life? Innovator made a lot of unlikely top ten lists a while after it was released, and it strikes me as odd that Jaguar is one of the first "stringy" (in the sense of older synth String of Life strings) songs I can remember hearing after Innovator was released. I remember when I first heard Derrick May records, I liked Strings of Life but I had a lot more trouble getting into his other tracks, probably because the Strings weren't so prominent, and the older sound was pretty foreign to my ears at that point. I'm really tired, not sure if that made sense... Don't get me wrong. I love Innovator and Jaguar, but the popularity of Jaguar is somewhat surprising to me. ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
