Are these stylistic predecessors to “Psychick Rhythms Vol. 1″, or is this genuinely different?
I think they were influenced by Detroit and Chicago for sure, there’s a lot of acid basslines there, and all the drum sounds are very 808. But it’s the subtle ways they make those familiar sounds their own, so you hear someone’s unique voice coming through. There’s a kind of wooden quality to some of the sounds which I love, and a vagueness to some, like a mix between voices and artificial sounds. Would you say that this EP was a landmark release for what would be minimal techno? Did it open doors to reduce the techno sound, instead of making it more complex? Or was the original intention really just to make statement, and it eventually led to others taking up on the idea nonetheless? To me it was, but I don’t know if it has been written into the collective idea of ‘dance music history’. Then again, ‘dance music history’ has always been something that’s a media thing, rather than anything personal to me. I can only assume what their idea was in creating this was, but I feel it was a ju
