Quote Originally Posted by Dustin Zahn
I was skeptical of the Mad Eye series at first. 1 track on the Conversation was so bad ass, and this new one by Beyer is equally good. Sometimes I don't think this supercharged microhouse sound works right but sometimes it's pulled off really well. I can see a lot of Beyer fans not liking this material because it's so different, not enough compression, sub bass, monotonus drums for the fans. This kind of stuff is REALLY hot here right now. There's a time and place for this...most Beyer records work well at 1am, this stuff is great for 3 or 4 in the morning.

My favorite part is the people who complain that Beyer is good for nothing but hard techno and he's stuck on his ways. The production quality on here is better than 95% of the stuff spoken about on this forum lately if you look at it from a production standpoint. People blame the guy for not looking to the future, once he does they blame him for doing so. Not all techno is about 140bpm compression, off-beat kick drum patterns, and open hi-hats!
Hmm i see your point.. We cannot blame Beyer taking other directions than the Drumcode loop techno. I say congrats to him to try to sound ifferent becasue techno ahs to be renewed these days.

Production-wise i agree hte mad eye stuff is very well done. But outside this the tracks is boring. It actually the common point of most of Beyer's music. Production has actually always been a trick to make the kids buy the records in the shops, but it does not affect significatively the quality of a track. Sure it helps it to be more Dj-freidnly and, above all sell-freindly but except some precise records, mastering has never made me not buy a track i like.

IMo his most achieved project stays Ignition Key, and interestingly, the production is not the best point of the album.

On a more "mad eye" styled music, his "17th" ep sounds IMO ten times better than that new EP.