Recent listening: Swayzak's newest, Dirty Dancing, is, I'm sorry to say as a fan, the pits. Awful cover--what were they thinking?; too many tracks with guest vocalists; too many self-conscious attempts to capitalize on the '80s revival. The only track I really like is the last one, "Ping Pong." Adrien Capozzi aka Adrien75 has a CD out on Worm Interface under a new alias, 757. The CD title is also 757. Really interesting musician. Fans of To Rococo Rot, Richard D. James, Kit Watkins/Coco Roussel, Alan Gowan/Hugh Hopper take note! (Listen to the track "Two Cats" here; also good is "Dusseldorf," which is like Kraftwerk's "Neon Lights" set to a raga beat.) Two old-school tracks from Clay's Pounding System show on WFMU recently caught my ear (check out the stream for 9/25/02 on his archive): Eazy E's "Nobody Move" and Coldcut's "That Greedy Beat." The late 80s/early 90s were truly a golden age.
tom, you've got an ear! 'dusseldorf ' is all about Kraftwerk, and 'Neon Lights' is one of their best (imho)
Hi, Adrien, thanks for posting, and linking to my weblog. I'm honored! It's coincidental--I just played "Neon Lights" for the first time in a while, a couple of nights ago. I'd forgotten that it also has an Eastern influence: the "bass line" that kicks in halfway through the track and goes to the end. Very Terry Riley-ish. It's really audacious because the song starts with simple piano chords that remind me of a 60s teen love ballad (in a good way!). Anyway, I hope Ralf and Florian, hidden away in their studio but apparently still listening, heard your piece. It has a lot of surprises, too. (Like the way it goes kind of jazzy in the middle.) You're doing things with rhythm and atmospherics they could only have dreamed of in 1978!
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Recent listening: Swayzak's newest, Dirty Dancing, is, I'm sorry to say as a fan, the pits. Awful cover--what were they thinking?; too many tracks with guest vocalists; too many self-conscious attempts to capitalize on the '80s revival. The only track I really like is the last one, "Ping Pong." Adrien Capozzi aka Adrien75 has a CD out on Worm Interface under a new alias, 757. The CD title is also 757. Really interesting musician. Fans of To Rococo Rot, Richard D. James, Kit Watkins/Coco Roussel, Alan Gowan/Hugh Hopper take note! (Listen to the track "Two Cats" here; also good is "Dusseldorf," which is like Kraftwerk's "Neon Lights" set to a raga beat.) Two old-school tracks from Clay's Pounding System show on WFMU recently caught my ear (check out the stream for 9/25/02 on his archive): Eazy E's "Nobody Move" and Coldcut's "That Greedy Beat." The late 80s/early 90s were truly a golden age.
- tom moody 10-17-2002 8:04 am
tom, you've got an ear! 'dusseldorf ' is all about Kraftwerk, and 'Neon Lights' is one of their best (imho)
- adrien75 (guest) 3-06-2003 10:16 am
Hi, Adrien, thanks for posting, and linking to my weblog. I'm honored! It's coincidental--I just played "Neon Lights" for the first time in a while, a couple of nights ago. I'd forgotten that it also has an Eastern influence: the "bass line" that kicks in halfway through the track and goes to the end. Very Terry Riley-ish. It's really audacious because the song starts with simple piano chords that remind me of a 60s teen love ballad (in a good way!). Anyway, I hope Ralf and Florian, hidden away in their studio but apparently still listening, heard your piece. It has a lot of surprises, too. (Like the way it goes kind of jazzy in the middle.) You're doing things with rhythm and atmospherics they could only have dreamed of in 1978!
- tom moody 3-06-2003 7:54 pm