I hate that little clipped hi-hat sound on the off-beat in EVERY minimal techno song

other than that, this michael mayer vs damian lazarus mix is pretty ace.

― tylero (tylero), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Boom Bap vs. Boom Bip

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

"other than that, this michael mayer vs damian lazarus mix is pretty ace. "

?!? Details please!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Tim seconded because, well, holy shit etc.

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's good! :)

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oomp-chit.Oomp-chit.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

i prefer oonce oonce oonce oonce

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Saturday, 8 July 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sound Revolt: Right. You’re doing a night with Michael Mayer. How did this collaboration come to happen?

Damian Lazarus: At the Benicassim Festival in Valencia last summer. We played at an amazing party called Freezer and afterwards we went to my hotel which was just close to where the club was. We were with some friends and everyone was really high and we went into the garden of the hotel and there was a big swimming pool. Michael and I took our iPods with us and we were just playing on very small speakers just to our friends, drinking and partying. But there were many, many, many people in the garden and in the swimming pool of the hotel and we were sitting just above them. And one moment I noticed there were some speakers facing out to the people, so we went to speakers, found the cable and a big mixing desk hidden away behind where we were. So we played with Michael back to back with our iPods to the whole of the hotel. We played crazy techno music to little kids in the swimming pool and the families and then we started to play nice chillout, afterhours music. We realised we have a lot of music in common and started talking about this. We went through our iPods and amazingly we had very, very similar old music. We were really stinking this ripping awful day and we had this idea: "we should have a party together and we should call it Stink."

link

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 8 July 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

the off-beat clipped hi-hat is the new on-beat open hi-hat?

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=CF2BD2BD2702C8E4

Lazarus vs Mayer

I dunno, that sound just seems to scream out 'tasteful restraint' to me, like this stuff wouldn't be too far out of place as yuppie coffee-table music.

― tylero (tylero), Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

ugh I think that came across a little harsh there. Maybe if it wan't so late I could articulate better. maybe not.

― tylero (tylero), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's all Thomas Brinkmann's fault, I remember reading an interview with him where he was describing Mininal as just the aural essence or kernal of dance - ie using the least possible to express musically what it used to take a whole bank of sweeping synth pads and kicking 909s etc to communicate. A kind of Earnest Hemmingway approach to sounds in other words. No alliteration or metaphor - just the bare facts. Thus the clipped hat and the kick with very little bottom end on it. The problem as always, and as has now become self-evident, is that the stylistic tricks of the originators become quickly adopted by a whole host of less able, and more importantly less thoughtful immitators, and lose their original impact and meaning, falling into diluted cliche and pastiche. In the right hands the style sparkled - see early Eulberg or even some Benjamin Wild. Now it is in danger of simply inducing yawns.

― lexurian (lexurian), Saturday, 8 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

oonce!

― W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 8 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

oonce?

― lexurian (lexurian), Saturday, 8 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

That mix is stinkin' by the way, two or three good moments, and then it just falls off a huge cliff. 'The Chain' - aaargh someone gouge out my eyes to lessen the pain.

― lexurian (lexurian), Saturday, 8 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

love the Chain. that track tore the roof off at the Stink party i went to.

playing Neil Diamond was embarrassing though. Lazarus, please no...

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Same drugs different decade? (Only joking) - seriously though, feels like a drop in form compared to when I last saw Meyer.

― lexurian (lexurian), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't listened to the whole thing - but i like one track, don't like the next - oh, they're back-to-backing..

i can't remember what Neil Diamond track Lazarus played... Solitary Man? No groove at all. At least he didn't play 'Song Sung Blue' i guess. And what is it with Neil Diamond? This week I went out and a hardish techno DJ played a remix of 'Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon'... i like ND but it's no good in clubs.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

i oh remember: Lazarsu played 'Sweet Caroline'.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

this stuff wouldn't be too far out of place as yuppie coffee-table music.

explain further. do you like smooth jazz?

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

Damian Lazarus: At the Benicassim Festival in Valencia last summer. We played at an amazing party called Freezer and afterwards we went to my hotel which was just close to where the club was. We were with some friends and everyone was really high and we went into the garden of the hotel and there was a big swimming pool. Michael and I took our iPods with us and we were just playing on very small speakers just to our friends, drinking and partying. But there were many, many, many people in the garden and in the swimming pool of the hotel and we were sitting just above them. And one moment I noticed there were some speakers facing out to the people, so we went to speakers, found the cable and a big mixing desk hidden away behind where we were. So we played with Michael back to back with our iPods to the whole of the hotel. We played crazy techno music to little kids in the swimming pool and the families and then we started to play nice chillout, afterhours music. We realised we have a lot of music in common and started talking about this. We went through our iPods and amazingly we had very, very similar old music. We were really stinking this ripping awful day and we had this idea: "we should have a party together and we should call it Stink."

This doesn't sound promising.

― Michael Dieter (Mika), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

that's too funny, i was actually there that day, reading murakami poolside when two topless girls exclaimed how much they loved him... fuck, you gotta love spain. but i remember mayer and lazarus in the little gazebo over the pool, drinking lambrusca or rosé or some shit. i - stop me if you've heard this one before - was there!

haven't listened to the mix though, yet. and for the record, i love those clipped little off-beat sounds a lot of the time... in guido schneider and audio werner, particularly.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

"a wise man said don't dj with fools cause people from a distance can't tell who is who"

― michael wells (michael w.), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

unstoppable!

― fies, Monday, 9 April 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

unfortunately.

― ☪, Saturday, 16 June 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

i love that little clipped hi-hat sound on the off-beat in EVERY minimal techno song

― creme1, Saturday, 16 June 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

it beats that stupid ride cymbal noise in every hard techno song

― creme1, Saturday, 16 June 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)