Jeff Mills - blue potential

[M H]

Ok, was just checking some sound clips of this.. really not sure about it.. reminds me of when you get some kind electronic music guest (as if that ever happens), or someone from some program with a decent theme tune on a talk show, and the in house band plays a rubbish version of their song... they seem to have pulled off sonic destroyer though (amazingly), but with the greatest respect to mills for his past work, I can't help but feel like he's turning into the david blaine of techno.... (you know, standing in a block of ice = watch a dvd of me djing, being suspended in a box with a crane for a week = listen to an orchestra play the synth parts to my trax with my 909 patterns...)

[Davenport]

MH, why would an orchestra play the synth parts to your tracks?

[M H]

MH, why would an orchestra play the synth parts to your tracks?

well quite...

(don't give up the day job mate ;) )

[Irrungenwirrungen]

Maybe we could suggest that the orchestra takes on your 'doin' it' MH & throw in some opera singers as well.

[komakid]

hihihi

[M H]

Maybe we could suggest that the orchestra takes on your 'doin' it' MH & throw in some opera singers as well.

:illin:

[soulcheck]

Maybe we could suggest that the orchestra takes on your 'doin' it' MH & throw in some opera singers as well.


It could work only on condition, that drummachine parts weren't as lame as on "Blue potential".

Just listened to it (BP) and IMO it could be a beautiful piece of music without the drummachine.

So if it ever comes to symphonic interpretation of your tracks, Mark, please make your drummachines a good match to the cellos and violins!

[nikrem]

real drums and double-tuba bass would've be nice. techno-brass has to be the way fwd.

[soulcheck]

real drums and double-tuba bass would've be nice. techno-brass has to be the way fwd.

True.

The best tracks on "Blue potential" are the beatless ones.

If the've done it like "babababaaaam bammm baaammm" instead of "tss tss tss tss tss" it would sound much much better. Percussion section in symphonic orchestra has much more potential than any roland will ever have.

[danzai]

the good bits are great the bad bits are the opposite. Maybe he is the David Blaine of Techno but I don't think this performance is such a bad thing, just some instrumental music a bit different from the originals. He's has just taken the opportunity to try something a little bit different. Where's the harm?

[nikrem]

listen to some late 80's henry threadgill..

[soulcheck]

Ohhhh god, and those claps. :/

[V Knid esq]

Acid Brass was better.

[nikrem]

acid brass was the %((%%(%&%*(&(*&%&%*&%&&**%*)&emy dellar. and his %(&**&%^&%%^%%stable consc()*&^&*^^ble.

[V Knid esq]

Yeah but it WAS better than Blue Penitential

[M H]

the good bits are great the bad bits are the opposite. Maybe he is the David Blaine of Techno but I don't think this performance is such a bad thing, just some instrumental music a bit different from the originals. He's has just taken the opportunity to try something a little bit different. Where's the harm?

I mean, fair enough for trying, I just would have expected something a bit better from someone like Mills... it just reminded me of when you have a rock musician on wogan, and the in house band plays some kind of parody of their music as they come skipping down the stairs.. I just would have thought Mills would have put it together better, I think Orchestral scoring of electronic music has been done much better before.. Philip Glass remix of Aphex's Icct Hedral for example...

[V Knid esq]

Never thought a great deal of that Philip Glass remix myself. But the London Sinfonietta versions of AFX and Squarepusher tracks were rocking. The Mills record actually mentions John Williams prominently on the press release... you'd think they could look a little further than that to find interesting orchestral techniques to replicate techno (even as far as Stravinsky who Williams is essentially a sanitised version of!)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

it just reminded me of when you have a rock musician on wogan, and the in house band plays some kind of parody of their music as they come skipping down the stairs..

lol

[V Knid esq]

the in house band plays some kind of parody of their music as they come skipping down the stairs..

I suddenly got a vision of this lot trying to play 'Seawolf'


http://www.shmusicmusic.com/images/4poofsandjr_400.jpg

[thepigjockey]

Found this review:

Working in collaboration with Alain Altinoglu, the conductor of the Montpellier National Orchestra, this pair of crazed alchemists have created a revolutionary crossover style (vaguely reminiscent of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's symphonic renderings of Pink Floyd).

Hahahaha...and it's a positive review. Pff. I had been interested in listening to it but that's put me right off.

edit- although I do actually like Jeff Mills, and I saw and enjoyed his Metropolis soundtrack, a good idea pulled off well.

However I don't know why he bothers with all his lecturing and talking and analysing and all that nonsense. e.g. "I tried to represent the outer rims of our (Earths) solar system through sound and silence - stretching the anticipated attacks longer and longer as time accumulates. The effect is something special".

Just play your music Jeff.

[wheezer]

Big up to the Alarm will sound Aphex twin album as well, 'cept for the superfluous remixes at the end

[Irrungenwirrungen]

I mean, fair enough for trying, I just would have expected something a bit better from someone like Mills... it just reminded me of when you have a rock musician on wogan, and the in house band plays some kind of parody of their music as they come skipping down the stairs.. I just would have thought Mills would have put it together better, I think Orchestral scoring of electronic music has been done much better before.. Philip Glass remix of Aphex's Icct Hedral for example...


I've now got the image of Alan Partridge & his 'in house' band in my head.

[thepigjockey]

I've now got the image of Alan Partridge & his 'in house' band in my head.

Now you're talking. I'd like to see them cover some Merzbow.

[yenorom]

I saw and enjoyed his Metropolis soundtrack, a good idea pulled off well.

Did the metropolis soundtrack ever get released on dvd? I remember there was talk of a edit of the film with his soundtrack ages ago.