17 May
2011
17 May
'11
12:37 a.m.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Chris Cannam
<cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com> wrote:
On 16 May 2011 21:48, James Morris
<jwm.art.net(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeh... great track! :)
It sounds pretty 90's techno to me.. And I think the speed is about
right for 92-93.. Things only pushed 140 in the late 90s IIRC unless
we are talking DnB.
Reminds me of dancing at the Velvet Underground to Carl Cox around that time..
Only things I would say is the bass drum should be a bit harder -
sounds a bit flabby to me, and the hi-hat/snare sound is a bit
overpowering - things were generally a bit tighter I think - less
reverby.. although it does give the impression of actually being in a
club! All the fx are fantastic.. maybe a bit more than was possible at
the time tho?
And vastly too short!
James
i always prefer the slightly weirder sounds, so
of course that's
something i've gone for with this track:
http://jwm-art.net/audio/acid_techno_test1.mp3
The sounds are quite authentic, I think. The kick might not seem very
techno these days but it's quite appropriate for the time and genre.
("Acid"-anything tended to mean lots of 303 in it, but that detail
aside, the samples and general tone are plausible enough for the sort
of thing you might have found in the techno room at Club UK
[http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2009/02/club-uk-in-wandsworth-…,
nice article])
The main problem I have is that that snare noise is far too
four-square, bash bash bash bash, to be so far forward in the mix,
particularly nearer the start. It's just too much.
And of course the whole thing is too short.