Wilson & Fridell - Tonal Path

[Mattias_Fridell]

While this isnt exactly a reply to Jamie I just stumbled upon this while reading his last rant:

"I've never sent out a 'demo' and I've never bugged anyone for a release. It's not my modus operandi and if you weren't too thick to do so you'd be able to get your head away from the concept that the only reason people make music is for superstardom."

Just to elaborate some for others, what I quoted is also true for me to some extent, I sent 6 demos in entire life and all of em was when I just got a bit more experienced in Techno (maybe they're all spread on a period of 2 years). Everything else I released, under my own name or under one of my aliases, is on requests (My discogs is very very poorly updated but my enitire released catalog can be found elsewhere).

Maybe this Jamie person confuses Glenn Wilson & Myself with the Beatport top 50 DJs that actually are popstars. We don't focus on being the commercial guys, never have and never will.
When we launched the Tonal Path project we knew far from everyone would like it. That's more rebel behavior then, say, go 150 BPM and trash all sounds through distortion boxes (with that being said, trashing sounds through distortion boxes can obviously be fun)

[JamieBall]

While this isnt exactly a reply to Jamie I just stumbled upon this while reading his last rant:

"I've never sent out a 'demo' and I've never bugged anyone for a release. It's not my modus operandi and if you weren't too thick to do so you'd be able to get your head away from the concept that the only reason people make music is for superstardom."

Just to elaborate some for others, what I quoted is also true for me to some extent, I sent 6 demos in entire life and all of em was when I just got a bit more experienced in Techno (maybe they're all spread on a period of 2 years). Everything else I released, under my own name or under one of my aliases, is on requests (My discogs is very very poorly updated but my enitire released catalog can be found elsewhere).

Maybe this Jamie person confuses Glenn Wilson & Myself with the Beatport top 50 DJs that actually are popstars. We don't focus on being the commercial guys, never have and never will.
When we launched the Tonal Path project we knew far from everyone would like it. That's more rebel behavior then, say, go 150 BPM and trash all sounds through distortion boxes (with that being said, trashing sounds through distortion boxes can obviously be fun)

I was actually saying that stuff in reference to the kid who told me that I was 'jealous' of Glenns (supposed?) position in the 'industry' lol I wasn't really saying "ooh look at mattias I bet he sends out millions of demos". I don't know if you do or not, so wouldn't comment on it...

Mattias I think you should let Glenn speak for himself and try not to dig a hole for yourself alongside his, if I'm being brutally honest. I'm not casting any unneccesary aspersions BUT the words Glenn and Wilson are seldom mentioned in the same sentence as words such as 'altruism' and 'reasonable'. Just saying what I've heard, I'm not a jangler (infact I'm a jangler strangler) just reporting what I've heard that's all.

Again, try not to just be like "Jamie ball just ****s everything through distortion" as it's simply not true. Maybe in your world producers are utterly one dimensional but I think of myself more as a musician. Here's an example of something distorted to **** that I wrote for crusty warehouse parties... YouTube - Jamie Ball as Action Bastard - Fake Book (Teleskopik Recordings 003)

[Mattias_Fridell]

Again, try not to just be like "Jamie ball just ****s everything through distortion" as it's simply not true. Maybe in your world producers are utterly one dimensional but I think of myself more as a musician. Here's an example of something distorted to **** that I wrote for crusty warehouse parties... YouTube - Jamie Ball as Action Bastard - Fake Book (Teleskopik Recordings 003)

I said I wouldn't reply no more to you but I just felt I needed to sort this out.
First, English is not my native language so sadly I sometimes manage to not get through with my sarcasm. I was being sarcastic about the "Jamie puts all in a distortion box" since you felt the need to say the Tonal Stuff sounds like everything else Glenn or me done before.
I honestly don't care if you don't like my stuff, or Glenn's stuff, or our collab stuff, and I sure as hell don't like yours. Oh and I made sure to browse though lots of releases that you have.

[JamieBall]

I said I wouldn't reply no more to you but I just felt I needed to sort this out.
First, English is not my native language so sadly I sometimes manage to not get through with my sarcasm. I was being sarcastic about the "Jamie puts all in a distortion box" since you felt the need to say the Tonal Stuff sounds like everything else Glenn or me done before.
I honestly don't care if you don't like my stuff, or Glenn's stuff, or our collab stuff, and I sure as hell don't like yours. Oh and I made sure to browse though lots of releases that you have.

Just a quickie to clear this up...

Mattias, kinda the same here on the language front. Well, sort of. The sarcasm tip anyways. A lot of people presume I'm raging (perish the thought) but I'm a very reasonable man who happens to be Scottish in the ol' vernacular :-)

I'm not familiar with what you've done, so I wasn't meaning to comment on what's gone before and if you've taken it that way I apologise. My, what rare days are these !?! lol ;-)

If you don't like my music that's fine with me :-)

As you were, folks, as you were ...