Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer
im playing with wilko tonight
shall i write this all down and present it to him?
i think not.
sure. why not? if he can't handle a critique of his stuff, he probably shoudn't be releasing records. that said, a critique is something more than "ooof this is shite". but i do think critique is necessary for techno to move forward instead of using lazy sampling (and inmho, that's what this track sounds like...laziness)


at the end of the day:

no he is not responsible for the state of techno today

no i still don't agree with threads just started to say something is "shite"

come on lads we're better than this.
no he's not responsible for the state of techno today. but we are all individually responsible for our own output. and that track, quite frankly, is lazy and pretty boring to boot. just coming on and slagging it is kind of useless, but i think we can use this as a springboard for a discussion on sampling and perhaps even quality control.

too many producers are shoving out tracks left and right that, quite frankly, are crap. part of this IS the ep format. so if you have one HOT track and you have to fill up the rest of the record, it seems like too many people just throw something on there. anything, just to fill it up.

and i am unwilling anymore to pay import prices for one hot track anymore. i think a lot of people are. and i think that (along with economics and distro issues) has a hell of a lot to do with the difficulty labels are having with selling records.

so perhaps all of this typing is just me saying i think a bit of quality control on the producer end would be nice. i would rather buy a various artist ep that has one hot track from 3 or 4 people, than an individual artist's ep that has one good tune and 2 or 3 crap ones.