is anyone here familiar with the garage output of gavin mills aka dj face?
he was one-half of psychotropic = probably my all-time favorite rave act, if i had to choose just one
(proviso = this is treating shut up and dance as a production team, not an act -- is this a convincing distinction???? -- okay, i got ahead of myself, shut up and dance are of course peerless = all-time rave maestros -- which means psychotropic are like the best of the rest)
but the other day i picked up a copy, after barely listening, of this uk garage record by him under the banana republic moniker called "you can't go wrong" -- and this has proven to be really crap, in my opinion -- even at $3 a very poor purchase -- and a grim reminder of how crap garage/house had become by 1994
even so, i find it hard to believe that somebody who had made such brilliant records could suddenly go so wrong = you can go wrong???
however, i ask about his garage output b/c i'm trying to move into that area of second-hand record acquisition = uk garage 94 through 00
in fact, i wouldn't mind seeing people's opinions (i.e., i'd be very grateful for tips about which labels to watch out for!) about the best ukg records for the second half of the 90s, including 2-step records
i'm also looking to move into the "darker end" of broken beats in terms of second-hand acquisition
[many people on dissensus are forward-looking tastemakers -- but i fall into the strictly retrospective camp]
btw i also picked up a copy of psychotropic's "back from the dead" ep the other day = not bad -- but more on the 9 am vibe, kinda ambient, kinda idm almost
he was one-half of psychotropic = probably my all-time favorite rave act, if i had to choose just one
(proviso = this is treating shut up and dance as a production team, not an act -- is this a convincing distinction???? -- okay, i got ahead of myself, shut up and dance are of course peerless = all-time rave maestros -- which means psychotropic are like the best of the rest)
but the other day i picked up a copy, after barely listening, of this uk garage record by him under the banana republic moniker called "you can't go wrong" -- and this has proven to be really crap, in my opinion -- even at $3 a very poor purchase -- and a grim reminder of how crap garage/house had become by 1994
even so, i find it hard to believe that somebody who had made such brilliant records could suddenly go so wrong = you can go wrong???
however, i ask about his garage output b/c i'm trying to move into that area of second-hand record acquisition = uk garage 94 through 00
in fact, i wouldn't mind seeing people's opinions (i.e., i'd be very grateful for tips about which labels to watch out for!) about the best ukg records for the second half of the 90s, including 2-step records
i'm also looking to move into the "darker end" of broken beats in terms of second-hand acquisition
[many people on dissensus are forward-looking tastemakers -- but i fall into the strictly retrospective camp]
btw i also picked up a copy of psychotropic's "back from the dead" ep the other day = not bad -- but more on the 9 am vibe, kinda ambient, kinda idm almost
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