Ugo
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Posted: Sep. 12 2010, 13:39 |
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Quote (Sir Mustapha @ Sep. 12 2010, 17:02) | Quote (Ugo @ Sep. 10 2010, 17:41) | If you are into techno then it's rather obvious that you love "Conflict", as it its repetitive, drum-machine-loop-like beat (although it's actually not a drum machine, or not entirely) is almost a proto-techno thing. |
I don't know, really; the kind of "loop" of Conflict is much more tied to aboryginal music than anything else. If there's anything on Mike's oeuvre that can be considered "proto-techno" is Guilty, since that kind of disco rhythm was the genesis for House music, which then branched into trance, techno and so on and on. |
@ Sir M.: well, regardless of what the loop was inspired by, it is a loop. And there also is a loop in "Celt", which is slightly more shakey than the one in "Conflict". What I meant to say is that the repetitiveness of a loop-based drum rhythm is something that, at least to my ears, is present in techno music just like it is present in "Conflict". "Guilty" is not proto-techno or proto-anything, as Mike wasn't generating anything with it; rather, he was unshamedly climbing on the disco bandwagon... more so on the Exposed version than anywhere else.
@ nightspore: I don't think Sweden is Abba-dominated any longer, these days. Also, as far as I know, there are lots and lots of Scandinavian bands who play similar or identical genres to what Lars plays... I don't think that every single one of them was born as a reaction against sugary pop dominating the Scandinavian charts, there must have been a strong undercurrent going a long time before that. [Yes, I know that yours was a joke, but it's true that sometimes heavy rock is born as a reaction against sugary pop - although that doesn't seem to me to be the case in Sweden.] By the way, Australia, IIRC, also used to be Abba-dominated in the Seventies. And Italian pop is currently dominated by androgynous-looking, pseudo-rock boybands à la Tokio Hotel, but they don't make anyone scream their heads off by doing death metal, which is not a popular genre down here. Pseudo-post-punk (Green Day style) is much more popular.
@ HR lover: if you're not into techno, what is the fast and loud music that you're into? I'm curious...
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