Quote Originally Posted by Tony
well, youre all being really positive, and against my usual form i must be a wee bit negative.
slater has stopped his techno productions and killed off the name planetary assault systems. i went to see him on the tour for his last album. now, i was enjoying the slightly more electro-y angle he was taking, but it wasnt pleasant at all. he's gone from filling super clubs, been pushed by novamute to go a bit further, and has ended up on the bottom rung of gig land. and you could tell the band was bitter, they where ripping into the crowd (of about 40 people) and really taking the piss. quite sad really.
dont get me wrong, if he ditched this stab for pop-dom and ressurected PAS i'd be really happy. but this move into this field of mini pop star has all but ignored his massive potential and the tree he was already at the top of. my personal suspision is novamute pushing him as far as THEY would like to see him go.
havent heard this recent one though, not rushing out to purchase either. sorry :roll:
Actually, from what I know little of him going a different route musically has to do with Novamute. I've interviewed him and spoke about this before and the buzz was that he was bored with making techno (At the time anyway) and wanted to try out some new things, obviously Novamute were happy to back this and to zone in on his image a bit more than before. Unfortunately for him though he has made little headway with his new projects imo and as you rightly pointed out Tony he has fallen down the ladder considerably when it comes to gigs.

PAS officially ceased after the last album, although I have heard mutterings that himself and Hulal are working on new PAS material so who knows? Could be rubbish but i really hope it isn't!