pattycakes_
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Nah, That's Jamal Moss. theo won't play much industrial or even thugged out acid or hard free jazz.
Hahaha, you are a card man. I've seen him play industrial, italo, he was the first person I ever heard play sleezy d and he definitely plays far out jazz. But keeps it groovy. Jamal takes it into his own thing. Clearly from the same place but its unrecognisable if you compare it with Hardy tapes. Theo on the other hand is very much more easily recognisable as a Hardy acolyte. I don't mind agreeing to disagree on this. Hardy wasn't anywhere near playing free jazz. He was about grooves, drugs and energy. Jamal is more Sun Ra territory.
I've seen him do all nighters and I've seen Jamal do all nighters and there's a world of difference imo. Theo is definitely more detroit house, bit more cool and composed,
I was a regular at plastic people. Theos favourite place to play because he could try shit out. Those nights were anything but composed. Jesus christ.
Jamal is just out there bringing the intergallactic gospel to everyone, heard him play weird italian shit that noone knows about into straight disco. the guy is super, super underacknowledged in my book. I love his sloppy redlining mixing as well, makes it feel like you're cramped. it's cyberghetto.
I love Jamal too man. People like him and Traxx are the evolution. They've shed their Hardy skins and carved their own pumpkins. But again, they're more Sun Ra territory.
Ah yeah but Ron Hardy is the first techno dj alongside being a house originator. that's the thing, he broke those detroit cats through. It's not politically correct to say so but that hard core substance-influenced working class club was where May et al's music went down the hardest and first. otherwise they would have probably remained local to the 313. like the electrifying mojo et al was very important for detroit but really not other parts of America, much less Chicago and New York. Hot mix 5 even in its 80s hayday was a much, much bigger phenomenon, people were even trying to get tapes imported to uk.
No arguments here.