re: Cassius/Daft Punk


Manire, Aaron D (amanire@indiana.edu)
Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:41:27 -0500



Shouldn't "dis" be spelled "diss"? When I read "dis" I heard "diz" in my
ears. (I read all my e-mail out loud)
Does anyone know where the word came from? I suspect that it's an
abreviation for disrespect but maybe there's more to the story than that.
Any budding Harry Allens on the list?
ADM

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Hartikainen, Pirkka
[SMTP:pirkka.hartikainen@partnergroup.com]
        Sent: Saturday, February 06, 1999 2:27 PM
        To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
        Subject: Cassius/Daft Punk

>Ok, Breaking Boundaries and Messing Up Headz, from La Funk Mob,
they've
>got a new one out Cassius "1999" that some great funky french
house,
>hopefully Daft Punk will wither away

        Whoa! I think I need to comment on what seems like a Daft Punk dis
        without any proper justifications..

        While it's true that Daft Punk have had a lot of attention while
        Philippe Zdar/Cassius stuff has remained underground, I don' think
that
        Cassius material is in essence any stronger than Daft Punk's. Let's
just
        that hope that the Daft Punk guys will come up with the goods again
like
        they did with their album two years back (and Stardust in '98).

        I know it's easy to dis somebody just because they're overexposed (I
        noticed myself doing the same with Cassius when I first saw the
video),
        but you gotta face the fact that just about EVERY artist that gets
major
        MTV airplay also gets overexposed because showing everything 20
times a
        day their mode of operation. My advise is: forget MTV and listen to
        music. ;-)

        just my 2 cents,
        pirkka
        http://listen.to/mixoftheweek

        PS. Check out Cassius DJ mix displaying their original turntable
        tactics:
        http://www.astralwerks.com/cassius/audio_mixes.html



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