Quote Originally Posted by Sunil
Yeah but Lekebusch and co. make these records more as mixing tools than anything else, there is quite a lot of depth to his tracks and his attention to detail and programming(Drumcode 10 for example) has always been top standard. Out of all the Swedish producers Lekebusch's ideas have always been more out there than the rest, he can make a wide range of stuff and often incorporates many different styles of music into his tracks..
It still sounds like pure product than anything else, and I think the popularity of this kind of stuff is down to the fact that it's easy to mix.. Fair enough having dj tools, but you've got to have the skills to go with it, and to be honest it ends up with every dj playing the same records, trying to do the mills imitation or blending trax together which is pretty boring... How many different styles of music can you incorperate into a banging loop? And before you start saying "Jazz" and "Funk" I don't really think stealing a one bar loop really indicates any diversity.. I like stuff hard, but it's gotta be interesting, and have movement and change... I've always wondered this with loop records, why bother to cut a whole side when just a lock groove would have done...
This is why we've ended up with a scene thats just full of people who all want to be up there djing, whilst the people who were just digging the music have all gone home... Nothing wrong with wanting to DJ, but I wouldn't really say that any of the hard loop producers are doing anything that wasn't being done 5 years ago.... The real innovative stuff is probably pretty unpalatable to most techno crowds unfortunatly, some would say it's unlistenable, but you would have never heard anything that sounds like it before.. That's TRUE innovation...