stelfox said:it's like it needs to be mediated and approved by a middleman like rupture or rephlex b4 it's really properly embraced... anyone know what i mean?
know exactly what you mean, it was going through my mind when I saw Richard D James & Russell Haswell Djing at Herbal a few months back - they were basically playing a mix of hip hop, dancehall, R&B , detroit techno & drum & bass but everything was played on laptops through msp patches making it sound fucked up enough to be palatable to the inevitably rephlex-obsessive crowd who I am sure would not normally spend a night listening to the same kind of tracks un-processed. The strange thing was whilst the original beats would have made people move, the aphexed versions were curiously static leaving most people just standing around watching the spectacularly unspectacular spectacle of two blokes fiddling with their laptops
I ended up at plastic people last night where I suppose parrish is doing the same sort of thing, making disco palatable to techno-bods by eqing it & cutting it up, but at least people were dancing to it