Re: [LAU] acid techno test

Hello James! I'm not sure, if I ever came in much contact with acid techno, but I certainly met the species called good, ol' 90s techno. :-) And I missed a few things here. So if my basic comparison is the wrong genre, just stop reading here. :-) Maybe a start at the tempo: It's probably not WAY too slow, but perhaps way too slow. :-) Mind you, what I associate with acid, seems to be more slow going and chillout. I remember, that techno round that time could be happy with tempi up to 180 BPM, but certainly over 140 BPM. It seemed, tat illegal substances were quite well in trade at that time, so people somehow managed to dance through a night of that. No particular ill will intended, but that's what some people from the scene complained about at tat time. The bass drum: I miss the good old kick your arse and make your neighbours house collapse bass drum. Either a typical Roland one or the distorted, compressed and sub-bass EQ'ed criminal offense, that somehow feels rather good. The mangled hihats were a nice touch and certainly fitted into the techno of that time, especially the part of techno, that was not on unspeakable samplers, which still exist today and poison the minds of unsuspecting young people. :-) The same goes for sound right at the beginning, can't really tell what it is, but it sounds disfigured enough to fit in. Don't get me wrong, I'm nt totally against it, it takes me back, yes I listened to that sort of music occasionally and enjoyed it quite a bit. It's rather liberating, I suppose I just came in toomuch contact with satirical and comic writing of late. difficult to get it out of ones system. The rest of the electro/industry reminiscent sounds in there are also very good and proper, but I miss some screetching, smoothcing TB303-ish weird arpeggio sound in there, that makes sure to fill the upper reaches of the frequency spectrum. Either that, or easing up on the hihats, so they can tear ones ears to shreads with their high spectra. Again slight appologies for the tone, but it's an earnest oppinion, at least if compared to normal techno from the early to mid 90s. Well if the acid-bit introduces something vital to the genre you were playing with, excuse me and forget you read this. Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de