Absolutly but then I guess this where we could reach the conclusion that umek is one inspired mutha... I mean sure he has donne a lot of stuff that sound the same and use the same sounds... BUT it was HIS sound HIS trade mark. Most "personal sounding" producers get cornered in they're "x sound", in this case x=Umek. But he has donne bleepy techno, trancy techno, distorted hard techno, minimal slovenian techno, Loopy/ Disco techno, "tribal" techno, cheesy techno, Elektro, housy house... In many of these styles he's excelled.. How many producers do we know that can do this sort of thing and spread tallent over so many different styles???
He has come a long way since his early ZET, Absense, Xpire stuff the time when He could get into Uk distribuiters... he was to Noisy 4 prime (he tolled me this one) then all of the suddent he was prime's new golden boy.. he rode the tribal thing but he was also one of the first 2 do it and shape it, the same goes for what is"accepted" has the start of shranz sound... Audio/ CLR recordings... same goes for the filter discoish recycled loop thing...

Why do people hate his so much I really can't figure! He is one class DJ, not many can mix the way he does... I hope all top DJs had half of his quality.
Most of what he plays and does today ain't really my cuppa but I think he as "musical personality" something lacking more and more 2 the new kids! He does his thing.

Lanicor.. It was a monster track and an Imediate Classic... Cheese lol... yeah 1 year later it was hammered by every1 so it got into pop status which generally means NOW IT'S CHEESY.. but there is 2 kinds of cheese ... something GOOD that went sour.. and something grown 2 b cheesy from ground level...


My 2 cents,

Z