Jonathan Takagi (jtakagi@millennianet.com)
Sun, 30 May 1999 22:51:29 -0700
Gen Kanai wrote:
> I have a bunch of the DJ Kicks comps (DJ Cam, Kruder &
> Dorfmeister, some others?) and I think this one is the best of the bunch.
I'm going to come off like a jerk but I have yet to be
blown away by any of the DJ Kicks collections that I've
heard. The song selection is always quite good, but for
a mix album to be interesting, it should flow exceptionally.
The more techno-ish ones (Pullen, Young) are really rough,
and I guess that's their style. The Carl Craig one is one
of the weirdest mix albums I've ever heard, it's more like
a segue-album. I would think that with all the time and
skills these people have that the mixing would be spectacular
but its usually just adequate. A good mix can completely
alter the persona of a single track when the context is
twisted and mutated, but these CDs (this one included) seem
to just put the songs in the listener's lap, just another
compilation album. I'm not saying that's bad, it's just
frustrating knowing that more could be done.
>Oh, got the DJ Krush/Toshinori Kondo album "Ki Oku" (found it used) and
>like it too.I'm a fan of the old DJ Krush in a sense but enjoyed the new
>collaboration.
I could be wrong but even when this came out a year or two ago on
R&S it sounded old, and I think that this was definitely recorded
before the newer stuff like his latest album (forgot the title),
which finally came out in the UK and Milight. Kondo has been doing
this stuff for a while, I still remember Ben List exposing me to
his version of "Round Midnight", he seems like a veteran to this
scene. But I could be (and probably am) wrong.
Jonathan
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