dmx krew

One of the UK’s original electro producers, Ed Dmx aka Dmx Krew has released a slew of EPs and albums that touch on pop, disco, old school electro and ghetto. In straight-talking mode, he sets the record straight on the lack of innovative electronic music, his relationship with Rephlex and his distrust of the music industry. Check out his live/DJ set at Bloc.

Electro was hyped up for a few years and now, the proper stuff seems to have retreated back underground - how has this affected you?
“Thankfully I’m still very busy with gigs, but the whole scene, especially the part I’m involved in, has got much smaller. It seems that no one knows what dance music is anymore, no one knows what techno or electro is anymore. People seem to think techno is all about the Love Parade and German guys with funny haircuts, and everyone thinks that electro is cheesy house music or four skinny guys wearing ties. I just wish that all the rock guys would piss off back to indie and leave electro alone. At the same time, who wants to hear yet another electro track with the ‘Planet Rock’ drums and a robot vocodered vocal?”

Are you saying that there are too few original ideas and producers?
“Yes. Anyone who goes into a studio and thinks ‘I’m going to make a house track or an electro record’ has already destroyed any chance that they had of making anything new or challenging. Remember how exciting dubstep was back in 2002 when everyone was still calling it grime? Now that everyone knows that it’s called dubstep and all of those records sound the same. By the same logic, of course electro is boring: it’s 25 years old, of course house is boring as well. A lot of the electro from the US and Europe that is coming out now sounds like it was made 10 years ago.”

ler o resto aqui.

omar s . psychotic photosynthesis [12" fxhe, 2008]

omar-s é, juntamente com keith worthy e patrice scott, um dos tipos que em anos recentes voltaram a pôr detroit no mapa e um dos sucessores maiores da geração de juan atkins, derrick may, kevin saunderson e eddie fowlkes. "psychotic photosynthesis" tem apenas um lado (e sabe a desilusão, porque sabe a pouco) mas é um pedaço impressionante de groove celestial. lento, luxuriante, ambíguo na forma como desafia os sentidos de quem ouve e na forma como se desenvolve em redor de uma matriz ritmica aparentemente inalterada é, desde já, um dos grandes momentos deste ano. real house music, intensa e emocional.

home taping is killing music etc

As many of you know, the album has already been pirated and is sadly already available on many blogs on the inter-webs. I can only say 'shame on you' to those who find no issue with stealing and giving away my hard work as if it were their own. On the other hand, THANK YOU to those who are willing to wait a few extra weeks to buy my music and support my work. You are special.

isto foi escrito aqui há quase um mês.
não vou iniciar pela milésima vez uma discussão sobre pirataria, etc, nem vou ser hipócrita ao ponto de reprovar os leaks (tenho blogs de mp3s nos links, vou lá quase todos os dias, saco e ouço imensa música pirateada que ainda não foi editada).
compreendo a posição do autor (a quantidade de links para o disco novo chegou a ser ridículo, tal o spam) mas o facto é que não fosse a preview e eu dificilmente ouviria o álbum. os 12" anteriores não eram nada de demasiado fascinante, os discos estão caros (quase tão caros quanto os concertos), há dezenas de discos a sair todas as semanas, um tipo tem que seleccionar não só as compras como as coisas que quer ouvir antes de comprar.
o leak fez-me mudar de ideias e pus na minha juno wishlist um disco que, de outra forma e sem leak, me iria passar ao lado. sei que sou uma minoria mas também me parece injusto meter no mesmo saco quem praticamente deixou de comprar música desde que apareceram os p2p e quem usa os p2p como forma para descobrir nova música que merece ser comprada.

últimas compras

[sem nenhuma ordem em particular]

animal collective . peacebone [12" domino, 2007]
hercules & love affair . classique #2 [12" dfa, 2007]
discodeine . discodeine ep [12" dirty france, 2008]
dj jus ed . minimal soul [12" underground quality, 2008]
dj jus ed & anton zap . real house music [12" underground quality, 2008]
tyree & the elect . i'm free / i'm house [12" clone classic cuts, 2008, original 88/86]
iggy & the stooges . raw power [lp sony, 1973] \m/