RE: Rootdown 99


stephanie (nnine@yahoo.com)
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:46:23 -0700 (PDT)



Just saw Rainer Truby last night in NYC. To tell you
the truth, i mean, he was good, but the track
selection was awfully housy for much of the night
(although I was lvoing the salsa at the end!), and
many transitions were lazy or abrupt. I'm kind of
getting annoyed with all these eclectic djs and
producers getting behind the decks with brains full of
sonic experiments, and then playing house. Mark
Farina, Alex Gopher, now Rainer Truby...If I wanted
that much house I wouldn't be so nuts over their music
in the first place. I'd just buy all...i don't
know...jose nunez or something. am I missing
something?

anyway, enough bitching, it was a very nice show. I
think we spotted David Byrne, and *oh my gosh* Michael
Reinboth (aka "the other guy") from Compost spun
absolutely delightfully, and this was _before_ Argo
started feeding me gin (which would explain my
incoherence, Nat...sorry...but nice to meet you!!).
Phew!! jeez...seemless mixing of rockin' brazillian
beats, even seemless tempo changes. If I'd had more
gumption I would have trainspotted every track! super
soulful and beatful. He was playing 45s, like the
little 7"s with the big hole in the middle. oh my
gosh. so so good. Really challenging, hot tunes. I
wish the whole night had been like that!

Still had a great time though. Rainer Truby was good,
there was just alot of stuff I couldn't get into. Now,
if Zap mama plays house, I'm going to be PISSED!!! ;)

stephanie

(oh, i'll try to jot down some jungle picks in the
next few days...off the top of my head, not
necessarily new stuff but new to me: brass wolf, bill
laswell, and stuff on recordings of substance. also,
that new peshay project "The Quartet" is *very very*
good. I'm also loving the new vadim and Quannum
spectrum. more in-depth commentary later.)

> Speaking of Rootdown99, I really enjoyed Rainer
> Trüby's
> DJ set last saturday here in Los Angeles....
> He started off with a very abstract downtempo tune,
> like that of Compost label stuff, then played a
> mixture
> of house, brazilian funk, dico, fusion for almost
> two hours!
> Wish i could get a playlist....
>
> Those in New York and Chicago
>
> and in toronto at movement this friday the 8th...
>
> zach
>
>
> should definitely check him out!
>
>
> Masaki
>
>
>
> L R wrote:
> >
> > Recently picked up Rootdown 99 (Nuphonic) compiled
> by Rainer Truby. It is
> > really nice, smooth, and jazzy and contains tracks
> by Jazzanova, Blaze,
> > Cujo, MAW, and others. Also has the Jazzanova
> Remix of Ian Pooley's
> > outstanding track "What's Your Number". VEry
> different than the Swag remix
> > which is much more techy.
> >
> > I hightly recommend this one.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Lara
> >
> >
>
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