Most of them can't program drums to save their lives either. They do a shitload of quick edits and have a million vst patches, and $40,000 in tube compressors at their disposal, but none of these cats could get work as a gospel pianist on Sunday morning. People are not bringing that kind of sophistication to the music these days. Yeah it had good sound design but the drums were about as playschool as you can get and there wasn't a whole lot of writing.
I remember one particular record mentioned on the 2008 thread that was a great "Detroit" record and everybody gushed about how good it was. The thing about those _ 2 _ records is that they have a level of musicianship and rhythmic sophistication that objectively isn't present in the shit that is getting pushed these days. I know what you are saying, but in this case I really don't think it is an age issue so much as a lot of people writing blogs don't have a discerning ear.
There is some filler in the UR catalog but there is also some of the best music of the last 30 years.Īnd i understand where you're coming from re: 2008 bobbins but i think its more to do w/ getting old? i consider myself pretty sympathetic to the "new techno" cause and i can't get too worked up about very much of that stuff myself (hello, i'd rather listen to ken ishii and planetary assault systems!) Then there is stuff like the Aaron Carl remix of Hard life, Timeline, the Drexciya records, Crime Report, Nocturbulous Behavior. I don't know about that, both sides of Final Frontier are some of the best electro ever to come out of Detroit. Yeah but the other thing is that the whole "nation 2 nation" / "world 2 world" / "galaxy 2 galaxy" set just lords over everything else in the UR catalog like it ain't even funny. More sophistication in any 16 bars of that track then there are in any random 50 tracks that get gushing praise on the 2008 bobbins thread Erot & Bjorn Torske are the 2 most under-appreciated Scandinavian producers who i will always promote. His 12"s preceding that album are 100% essential.ījorn Torske's Trobbel probably won't get mentioned anywhere but here so take this as a desperate plea for you to track it down. Its not house or techno but some amorphous combination of many different styles. The Stockholm album is still one of my favorite electronic albums of all time. Svek is a fantastic label and the 2 from The Persuader that have been mentioned are essential. Urban Farmers - Swinging It on Afro Art was my secret weapon for an extended period sometime in 96/97. A fair amount of dodgy tracks too but the good far outway the bad. London Hooligan Soul was my go-to disc for backyard bbq's way back when + Rude System stayed on my turntable (primarily because the gatefold vinyl was so perfect for rolling spliffs). The two Ballistic Brothers LP's I have are great (I don't have the first one).
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