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Re: [microsound] Album of the Year (thank you)
I think the reason for that is he uses abelton live to perform live with which
if your making your tracks on it as well it can sound very much like the studio
recording... personally thats not for me I like to keep thing fresh and new
each and every time and in that I like to use a lot of generative max/msp apps
to do so for live and in the studio ... I think thats the main reason why I get
on so well with artists like kero... even though my music is so different from
what he does its similar in nature...
neil
aka naw
Quoting "::)" <r3dshift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> i could go on and on about the musical politics and close mindedness in
> detroit...
>
> I totally agree with you re: akufens recent releases. his older stuff is
> fresh feeling, whereas "my way" just feels cliche and maybe overproduced for
> my tastes.
>
> he came to detroit for a perlon show ( perlon does a regular monthly or
> bi-monthly in detroit) and it was packed, but I swear to god he just opened
> popped "my way" into the club CD player and just stood there looking like he
> was really rocking it on his laptop.
>
> I personally respect a good live show more than 10 studio records though.
>
>
>
> -Joe
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:06 PM
> Subject: re: [microsound] Album of the Year (thank you)
>
>
>
> Subject: Re: [microsound] Album of the Year (thank you)
>
> I should not be saying anything.
>
> But I just can't help it .. so please write this off somewhat. All aesthetic
> debates are caustic to some degree, although I will try and avoid that.
>
> That said --
>
> Akufen has done more for minimal techno than the previous 3 years of
> releases combined. Agreed that personally, I dig his Montreal Nightclubbing
> LP on Perlon much more than "My Way." The former is a rocking techno monster
> that has shed more sweat on the floor -- try doubles of some of those tracks
> -- than anything I have thrown down, from Detroit, Germany, or wherever, in
> some time. It's a techno lover's album, a DJ's DJ album. "My Way" is perhaps
> the nu-listener-hype release, but also an exploration farther into the early
> '80s (Moroder influences rate much higher).
>
> Personally I think Detroit is an inspirational bastion, but the style tends
> to niche and date itself. I remember the "Swedish Invasion" and how they
> hated that shit on 313. Today, I hear all those early Beyer records, and I'm
> like: this is real beautiful techno .. Moreover I find it troubling to see
> Detroit held as a yardstick for "techno"--not anymore. Montreal, Akufen, has
> its own funk, its own sound. Detroit doesn¹t go over well in Montreal,
> either. Which isn't to hold one up above the other -- just to recognise the
> otherness of the two.
>
> I mix the two together -- I've been DJing (minimal / hard / dub / Detroit /
> German / experimental) techno for awhile and I see Akufen as working quite a
> few aesthetics negated by the Detroit crowd. Purity in any discourse is the
> mark of its creative limit and (self) censorship.
>
> And I feel alienated in Montreal as a lover of Detroit. When I've spun that
> here, people don't jive with it. It's darker, funkier ..
>
> Which is why I am interested to see the Mat Jonson show (itiswhatitis
> records from Victoria / Vancouver, BC) this Saturday here in Montreal. This
> is a "micro.mutek," also with Colin the Mole (aka Bodensee), who is also
> from Vic. I think, to be honest, West Coasters have done more to bring
> together the Detroit sound, the German sound, dub, and Montreal's
> innovations more than anywhere else -- perhaps because we've always dug that
> dub sound, with Interchill Records and all, and because we're all a little
> paranoid from the spliff. Whatever. Mat's records conjure the looped tension
> of Detroit with a sampled repetition of a dirty backalley Brinkmann -- then
> there's Daniel Gardner, who takes the splice and dice of Akufen on his two
> Background releases and adds another layer of thud.
>
> Anyways ..
>
> tV
>
> > well I'm able to appreciate "laptop techno" since thats what I DO, but
> I've
> > heard many many better albums than his and many many many many better live
> > shows.
> >
> > then again, we're pretty spoiled in detroit :)
> >
> > his old stuff was a lot better than the new album
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "graham miller" <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: [microsound] Album of the Year (thank you)
> >
> >
> >> akufen's music is phenomenal IMO: original, funky and beautiful. it's
> >> quite easy to bash someone who is able to transcend the aesthetic
> >> inbreeding of academia and connect with the public at large. god forbid
> >> 'normal' people should actually enjoy laptop techno - or even dance to
> >> it for that matter. his hard work deserves to be celebrated - just as
> >> much as anyone. the first time i heard his music it blew my mind - it
> >> stands on its own in sea of laptop homogeneity.
> >>
> >> graham.
> >>
> >>
> >> r3dshift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >>> congrats Andrew!
> >>>
> >>> album of the year!! yay!
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to hear your album, along with those of your
> >>> fellow nominees. I bet there is some great stuff in there,
> >>> which the exception of akufen.. I hope his stuff didn't
> >>> win, it's nothing special IMO.
> >>>
> >>> he should however, win shittiest live show of the year.
> >>> maybe he just wasnt feeling detroit.. I know detroit
> >>> didn't feel him last time around.
> >>>
> >>> -Joe
> >>>
> >>> I just found out yesterday (despite the press release
> >>> being dated Feb 11) at around 5pm that I received a
> >>> nomination for Canadian Electronica album of the year
> >>> (see below) for my album "Sprung" that was released on
> >>> Bip-Hop in the fall of last year; the award ceremony
> >>> happened at 10pm my time last night. Have no idea who
> >>> won. Only found out about the nomination because Greg
> >>> Clow told me, and it looks like none of us were told of
> >>> our nomination. Anyway, I just want to thank everybody
> >>> for their support of my music and congratulations to
> >>> the other nominees and those who support what we are
> >>> doing. Thank you very much. Take care. Andrew Duke
> >>>
> >>> THIRD ANNUAL CANADIAN INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS HONOUR
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> >>> recording artists will be honoured at the Canadian
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> >>> February 26, 9 p.m. at the Phoenix Concert Theatre,
> >>> Toronto. The event, now in its third year, kicks-off
> >>> Canadian Music Week (CMW) festivities with a bang.
> >>>
> >>> ELECTRONICA ALBUM OF THE YEAR
> >>>
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> >>> Eloi Brunelle
> >>> Andrew Duke
> >>> Mossman vs. Mr. Tsunami
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> >>>
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> >>> *Canadian electronica album of the year nominee*
> >>> More Destructive Than Organized
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