Hi AFAIK "Sägezahn" refers to
first of course the waveform secondly a revival of a certain german(?) sound from 94(?); since the first Strass record (by MikeInk) on FIM in 98 it has kind of exploded, at least in germany, and has become a sub-genre, exploited especially by Heckmann and FIM but also by MikeInk himself (>Auftrieb). Once there came out a FIM labelsampler mixed by Rush consisting entirely of sägezahn. Altough initially intendet as tongue-in-cheek by MInk (watch out for his jokes!) the whole thing was taken quiet/too seriously after a while and IMHO became an escape-route out of a creativity-standstill for some. MInk (last time i mention him) offered in his late Freiland releases a more demanding (and funky) and less trancey approach to this concept of body-music. Nowadays it has already faded away on the whole, but it also has spread in some ways. For example you may hear some reminisences of zägezahn coming out of Bristol or in various electro-trax (Antarctica... anyone wants to drop a comment on this one?) Porter Ricks was sägezahn avant la lettre. one could say that Dusty Cabinets by Th Parrish (hellova track!!) is in some ways sägezahnish, but thats a bit far out and afterall i dont want to start it all over again, i shed no tears over this bugger dustin. Keepitup and staydown armin i'm missing Alan Oldham
