blissblogger
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with "Metropolis" i think it's the combination of the science and the ferality (if that's a word, which my spellcheck insists it's not)
it seems to have all the feral, marauding energy of "Terminator" or "Warpdrive" or [fill in your fave 93 darkcore classic] but there's a new level of cinematic accomplishment to the production
so it's a best of both worlds job
i kinda listen back on most of the music of that entire era now and smile at it really - i was just listening to a whole load Hidden Agenda stuff the other day that i never bothered to buy or even listen to at the time, with the exception of "Is It Love" which I loved - cos i became a partisan for the techstep direction - it's fantastic stuff, yes it's polished and self-consciously 'cinematic' , but in its own way just as valid and enjoyable.
the aggravation and the siding with one direction against another that i used to feel so intently, and express so vehemently - it's kind of faded away
feel like all of it was good, came from a good place - in terms of motives - in terms of that time and what was going on (whereas later on, 98 onwards, it started to feel like djs and producers were pandering, doing this bonehead music with very simple rigid beats, cos that's what the crowd on the floor responded to)
true though that none of the later directions were as as mental and magic and "all things contained within one roiling mass of insanity" as 92/93
but those moments in music are few and far between and they do tend to separate out into strands that do just one or two things very intensely and fixatedly, rather than 5 or 6 things at the same time
it seems to have all the feral, marauding energy of "Terminator" or "Warpdrive" or [fill in your fave 93 darkcore classic] but there's a new level of cinematic accomplishment to the production
so it's a best of both worlds job
i kinda listen back on most of the music of that entire era now and smile at it really - i was just listening to a whole load Hidden Agenda stuff the other day that i never bothered to buy or even listen to at the time, with the exception of "Is It Love" which I loved - cos i became a partisan for the techstep direction - it's fantastic stuff, yes it's polished and self-consciously 'cinematic' , but in its own way just as valid and enjoyable.
the aggravation and the siding with one direction against another that i used to feel so intently, and express so vehemently - it's kind of faded away
feel like all of it was good, came from a good place - in terms of motives - in terms of that time and what was going on (whereas later on, 98 onwards, it started to feel like djs and producers were pandering, doing this bonehead music with very simple rigid beats, cos that's what the crowd on the floor responded to)
true though that none of the later directions were as as mental and magic and "all things contained within one roiling mass of insanity" as 92/93
but those moments in music are few and far between and they do tend to separate out into strands that do just one or two things very intensely and fixatedly, rather than 5 or 6 things at the same time
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