mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
yeah the dhr stuff was good, this has been discussed here b4 i think,
baby thread here I think
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=1152&highlight=alec+empire
yeah the dhr stuff was good, this has been discussed here b4 i think,
glad i said pretty much the same thing as i said 4 years ago on the subject as i've said now (feels so old:slanted)
he was also one of the early people to rinse out the punk/revolutionary potential of rave, also with those riot beats records he was one of the first non scene artists and one of the first non english artists to approach jungle with their own attitude, well before drill and bass was de rigeur with the idm hoi puloi.
but all in all the Digital Hardcore thing was such a bad move for him... it was just so obvious what he was doing, so forced, such a lame return to rock'n'roll mythology.
god i played that shit so much. remember clearing dance floors with it when i first started DJing - unintentionally though, i was like why aren't people getting this???
speaking as someone who spent the 90s brow deep in the hardcore scene, it always amuses me to see folk pontificating about alec empire as if his work was in some way novel or profound. generally speaking, we saw him as charismatic and clever and nice, if in no way as heavy or as innovative as many of his contemporaries.
lion's share of what their circle produced was some incredibly silly shit, yo...
speaking as someone who spent the 90s brow deep in the hardcore scene, it always amuses me to see folk pontificating about alec empire as if his work was in some way novel or profound. generally speaking, we saw him as charismatic and clever and nice, if in no way as heavy or as innovative as many of his contemporaries.
dj scud's 'Kill or be killed', under his Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth alias is one of the most remarkable pieces of music ever i think.
dj scud's 'Kill or be killed', under his Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth alias is one of the most remarkable pieces of music ever i think.
dj scud's 'Kill or be killed', under his Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth alias is one of the most remarkable pieces of music ever i think.
dj scud's 'Kill or be killed', under his Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth alias is one of the most remarkable pieces of music ever i think.
yeh it's a great track, tho I actually prefer the remix 12" - Panacea's is the best thing he's ever done I reckon - tho my favorite is the Ślepcy mix which slows it way down & lays the original sample over a like vaguely Eastern European synth line & choiral singing & random blips (& out of time cutup breakbeats of course) & even manages to toss in violins & flutes near the end...one of those indefinable tracks made up of a whole bunch of disparate elements that should never work together but work despite it all (a la "Monarch of the Glenn")...
hmm, i can't agree here, as scud pretty much did a style no one had ever done before with kill or be killed, totally psychotic dancehall. It's a perfect record, a little rage bomb, it just stops people in their tracks that one.