RE: high noon--is it just me?

Michael Aregood (maregood@comcastpc.com)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:06:03 -0500

I'm not quite sure what is specifically commercial about this track. I
guess in discussing music talking abstractly (commercial, shadow-sound)
is unavoidable but i'm curious what you mean by that. That is the last
word i would use to describe this if commercial means adhering to a set
(safe) formula that works in order to sell records. I found this to be
far from safe and was definitely intruiged that he was able to push away
from Entroducing and maintain the "shadow-sound". I can't even put my
finger on what that is. Definitely cool, though not very DJ friendly. I
don't have any other moods like that to flow out of!!! (well, it would
take some looking at any rate)

peace,
Argo

> ----------
> From: Tim Kemp
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 1997 8:58 AM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: high noon--is it just me?
>
> At 13:24 10/11/97 +0100, Beside wrote:
> >I wrote:
> >>I can see why, I don't see how what Shadow has done with that track
> >> is any sort of progression from his earlier material.
> >Really? IMHO High Noon was VERY different from his earlier stuff,
> while
> Aaagh! This proves the value of proof-reading email before
> sending it!
> By that really badly phrased comment I meant that I couldn't see the
> _connection_
> between that and his earlier stuff. It's obviously a progression,
> because
> its totally
> different, but I was unable to find a common thread between the two.
> Perhaps
> I should have
> said 'Logical Progression', but that might have started another
> thread... ;-)
> Maybe if I listen to 'High Noon' more I'll be able to spot the
> 'trademark
> "shadow-sound"'.
> Still, variation is good in an artist, but I found 'High Noon' a
> little too
> commercial
> and not at all what I expected from DJ Shadow.
>
> >Well, endtroducing was allso very different from his early stuff.
> Less
> >hiphop and more..uh..soundscapes and moods or whatever (that might
> not
> I got into DJ Shadow through a mate lending me 'Endtroducing',
> so
> I've always associated those sounds with his music. What of his
> earlier
> tunes can you
> recommend for me to check out?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim Kemp
> pp0u7078@liv.ac.uk
>
> n-p : 9 Lazy 9 'Electric Lazyland - Journeyman mix'
>