From Maer Ben-Yisrael Sent Wed, Jun 30th 1999, 16:25
From Maer Ben-Yisrael Sent Wed, Jun 30th 1999, 16:25
Bill Van Loo - The Voice of Knowledge and Reason.
Screw multimedia design, Bill, you're destined for
the U.N. ;)
-Ma'er...
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, William Van Loo wrote:
> > > I don't know about a hip-hop *influence*,
> >
> > I thought it was common knowledge that Autechre were just a bunch of
> > b-boys at heart? The influence might be a bit more audible on the Gescom
> > projects (especially Gescom 2, SKA003).... but it's definitely the soul
> > of most Autechre releases...
>
> Ya'll always miss the point of things by trying to say, "it's one thing", or
> "it's another thing".
>
> Autechre has a distinct hip-hop influence to these ears (which have been
> listening to real honest-to-goodness hip-hop for years). Check the tried by 12
> remix or "Goz quarter" for evidence.
>
> Obviously it's not everything to them, though. I don't hear a lick of hip-hop
> soul in the noisy interludes on LP5 or the Gescom MiniDisc. But that's OK,
> they are a multi-faceted group.
>
> For the record, I dropped both the hip-hop side (tried by 12 remix; a slice of
> vocal garbled-yet-discernable heaven) and the non-hip-hop side (various
> artists no.9 remix; a slice of grungy 4-to-the-floor techno heaven) last night
> on www.detroitpeoplemover.com - check it out. Unfortunately the tried by 12
> mix isn't in there, but the various artists is.
>
> Bill / dj marathon
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