Re: Broken Beats and Hard House

From: eric kitel (eric@ayalounge.com)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 17:51:00 CET

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    From: "Stavros Zanos" <zanos@otenet.gr>

    > forgive me if i may seem too 'purist', but i think this combination
    > (brokenbeat/ hardhouse) has no artistic/aesthetic relevance; unless
    > 'hardhouse' is a different style than that i know of (banging 'music'
    > in the mauro piccotto, nick sentience, nukleuz, etc vein--absolutely
    > NO relation to detroit techno/electro etc). forgive me, but
    > 'hardhouse' or 'psy-trance' or 'gabber' etc will never come close to
    > ANY jazz and soul-related music i know of...it's like trying to blend
    > oil and water--they'll just move to different levels within the pot.
    >

    I don't recognize any of the artists you mention, but like I said I'm
    looking for minimal, tribal, "deep" dubbed out stuff, that is also bangin',
    I mean like around 130 bpm, (as opposed to 140 or 120).... I don't really
    know about detroit techno, as that was before my time, however I do enjoy
    some recent releases by Kirk DeGiorgio, John Tejada, and Future Beat
    Alliance, and I understand that all of these have some relation to the
    original Detroit Sound.

    Deep House is nice, especially when it's done well. I think
    selection/programming is more important there than in any other genre. I
    don't think it mixes well with most broken beat material, that's mostly in
    the 130-135 bpm range, unless you pitch it down and make it sound weird
    which just sounds weird.



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