Quote Originally Posted by Jay Pace
Quote Originally Posted by Ritzi Lee
clarity, dept, funk, dirtiness, deep & hard....
everytime when I go to the record shop I want to find these elements in techno....
This sums up my feelings about much of Matthew Dear's Audion output so far.

People seem to be afraid to slow down, cut loose and do something a bit weird.
Too many people play far too fast. Bring back the funk please. There's more room to experiment when you start looking from 125bpm instead of 145 bpm.
A track can be funky at 125, but also at 145... Just check out the old Advent stuff for example.

But I agree it doesn't have to be speed up constantly all the time... Tracks at 125 till 135 can build up as much energy and tension to go for the big orgasm at 145.... The best DJ sets I think are build up this way.... But they do need the records to achief this.

Well people get the message anyway in time.. It's the way things always evolute...


Yes why is it that we don't feel that umppfff anymore with most new records at the shop? I don't know. But I do know there is still hope, and in the mean time there are a lot of people reading our suggestions / opinions.

One of the basic principals to refuse to buy that particular record (for me anyway) is, if I hear to many known sounds / samples, patterns that are used too many times in other productions. It's just a clone of that previous track.... Take Christian Wunch as an example. I respect him for his technique, but there was one time he released dozens of records at a row that sounded exactly the same in sounds... I mean come on man, what are you pulling out here to do such a thing?!? If you don't have the inspiration / motivatiion to create something totally new, then keep it for a next release, and don't rush it just to achief to release an everage of 50 records in a year.....

I hope this points out the problem really clear.