I have also been listening (and buying back) a lot of early house: Todd
Terry, D-Mob, Kevin Saunderson, S'Express, Beatmasters, 808 estate, Farley
Jackmaster Flash, etc. However, I disagree with you. Most of it does not
stand well the sense of time. I love it because of both its nostalgic
value and because there were a lot of ideas latent there which remain to
be fully exploded in electronic music. Most of their then original ideas
have been developed to such levels that they sound dated, but there is
still some stuff that you can see pointing in a direction that none or few
picked up later. I have always been very interested in the origins of
styles because of their rawness, and a lot of that stuff is so raw, it has
an extra force that is lacking in a lot of new releases.
-axel
PS: But A Guy Called Gerald's 'Voodoo Ray' can still raise lots of
eyebrows!!!!!!!!!!
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Marco Baroni wrote:
> In the rare moments in which I am not enjoying Mellow Mellow, I have been
> listening to some old house music -- Mr. Fingers, Inner City, Joe Smooth. I
> was surprised by how well early house music stood the test of time. Better,
> I would say, than later, more ambitious kinds of electronic/dance music
> (techno, drum'n'bass, downtempo...) Does anybody else agree with this
> intuition? If you do, do you have a theory about it? Is it because house
> music (via the disco connection?) is closer to the eternal soul/funk roots?
> Or is it something about the four-on-the-floor beat? Or is it just an
> impression due to the fact that house is trendy again thanks to labels like
> Nuphonic?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marco
>
>
>
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