Quote Originally Posted by detfella
Just because the guy is a techno legend doesn't make him consistantly good behind the decks. He always pulls in a great crowd becuase of who he is, but I find him playing the same tracks all the time...too many bells and jaguars. His early sets as the Wizard are amazing (mixing & scratching hiphop, electro, funk et al). Mill's style to me is when he fcuks it up with EQ, dropping tracks in straight away, which is why he's gonna make mistakes now & again. You've probably never heard him play a bad set in a club cos you've been off your tits and the crowd are going mental, but listening to his sets straight proves he is sometimes hit and miss. I'd still put him high in my list but Sims & Hawtin flick my switch whatever mood i'm in.

Ben Sims
Richie Hawtin
Jeff Mills
Derrick May
Adam Beyer
T-1000

Speedy J has got to be the world's greatest techno PA.

BTW if anyone wants some of Mill's early sets you can find me on winmx.
I'd appreciate if you didn't make grand assumptions, Detfella. Being "off your tits" has absolutely NO bearing on the situation, whatsoever. I'm not 19 years old, you know! I appreciate what is GOOD, irregardless of my state of my mind. I agree, he has been dropping "hits" of late, but I saw him last weekend, and there wasn't any sign of "Bells", "Jaguar", "Blackwater" etc. Just good quailty, underground techno, mixed in his INIMITABLE style, which over the past few years has progressed to what can only be described now as flawless.
You're list of artists is interesting, but I would disagree with Sims and Beyer. To me, Sims (and I agree his technical prowess is awesome) just plays loopy, tribal techno, with no variation, no imagination. It's cool if people like this, there are far worse DJ's to listen to, but he's hardly in the same league as Mills, May, Oldham etc.

Beyer, doesn't inspire me- LOUD pressings, and a harder faster mentality doesn't spell purveyor to me, it spells boring.

Hawtin- well, whatever happened to Richie eh?? Platikman as a live act will probably never be beaten, but his DJ'ing leaves a lot to be desired. Technically great, but for someone who has such an awesome production history, you'd think he'd find a decent record shop/intenet site to get his tunes from, because they are the most soul-less tracks I have ever heard. I wish I knew (and I'm sure countless others do to) what happened.............