Am vrut sa scriu de funke&kalkbrenner foarte mult dar nu imi veneau in cap decat livio&roby, oh, the horror. Si cu cat ma gandeam mai mult, cu atat ma enervam mai tare asa ca am abandonat. Poate ca e mai usor sa scrii de rau decat de bine. Ideea e ca a fost o petrecere extraordinara, cu o muzica excelenta care iti reda increderea si entuziasmul, la care am aplaudat si tipat cum nu mai facuse de foarte mult. Piesa de mai jos m-a urmarit mult in dimineata dupa petrecere. Inainte ma facea sa ma gandesc la cam penibilul trailer de la filmul lui Kalkbrenner, acum o asociez cu atmosfera geniala pe care a creat-o in club (mai ales ca , dar nu sunt sigur, la martin a renuntat la vocea tampita de pe final). Si asta e relevant pentru situatia in care se gaseste Kalkbrenner. Pe de-o parte face un film de care imi e frica, e atat de usor sa iasa prost si atat de greu bine. Un DJ din Berlin are probleme cu drogurile si cu prietena lui, c’mon, asta e pentru fanii livio&roby. Pe de alta parte omul scoate un album excelent sub forma unui soundtrack, un exercitiu de umilinta si eludare a presiunilor si asteptarilor unui album (vezi villalobos – fabric desi cu alta finalitate). Unele piese sunt mai vechi, altele noi. Unele au cap si coada, altele sunt numai idei foarte misto nedezvoltate, motive lasate sa curga in repetitie. Dar ce incantare, ti-e sufletul usor de atata relaxare si zambet. Asta pe o scena unde sentimentele astea au inceput sa lipseasca cu desavarsire.
Mai era ceva de zis si despre drama Martinului, care desi pare a se gasi intr-una dintre cele mai bune perioade ale sale, cu un line-up si o directie foarte actuala, se gasea legat de agentia FWD si atat de multii nepotriviti care erau bagati in fata desi ar fi trebuit de mult sa se retraga la cocoloco. Inteleg ca s-a rezolvat dar din cu totul alte motive. Nu era foarte plin la funke, nu ma astept sa fie foarte plin nici diseara la Anja Schneider, cu tot Mobilee-ul ei. Martinul e acum in situatia de a fi cu un pas inaintea publicului dar daca reuseste sa reziste pe directia asta o sa-si culeaga roadele un pic mai tarziu. In jur e destul de trist ce se intampla.
Soft Pink Truth, Komet, unknown, Jan Jelinek, Farben, Pheek, Andrew Pekler, Stewart Walker, Spiess, Peter F., Thomas Brinkmann, unknown / Swim label, Closer Music, unknown, CheckSum, ø, Taylor Deupree, ø, Gramm, unknown, Gas, ø, unknown / Scape label, Aphex Twin, Thomas Koner.
Un set exceptional de la un dj asiatic despre care nu stiu multe lucruri. Minimalism din esaloanele superioare, un fel de partea a doua a setului lui anders ilar de pe chestionabil. A must.
“People are bored. There is plainly a desire for change […] DJs, producers, bloggers and journalists are moving on […] But, if minimal’s over, what’s next? Well, more of the same. Only different. Subtle shifts, suitably enough […] Logically, this should be boom time for maximal dance music, a la Crookers and Hervé. And it might be, in Britain. But, the German scene and media isn’t prey to the same vicious swings, the same boom-bust, hype-kill cycles. “Evolution not revolution” is Germany’s style and, with Berlin unlikely to cede its position as electronic music’s global centre, that is where the most exciting innovations are still going to come from […] If minimal brought avant-garde electronica to the dancefloor, it’s only natural that it’s more cerebral exponents may now travel the other way.”
Ronan Fitzgerald’s response Octomber 09 2008
“Minimal has declined since a peak of popularity 2 years or so ago but it certainly hasn’t died. I don’t say that as a partisan supporter of the sound either. I say it as someone who noticed a fatigue in the music which the letters “mnml” came to represent grew from around January 2007 but has actually receded a lot since about June 2008. The reason mnml’s “death” is “strange and lingering” is because it isn’t a death at all! Minimal continues to exist. Only in a genre as ephemeral and illogical as dance music in 2008 could I seriously be saying “hold on there Tony, minimal isn’t dead, it’s coming back!
[…] What we’re left with now post-mnml and (sorry Tony) post-deephouserevivalandeverythingelse is just a loose template, a nameless scene where no one word dominates. Maybe the article should have been called “The strange lingering death of dance music’s direction”. Not because the genre is finished or over, but because it doesn’t seem to be travelling forward in time with any coherency. People are looking to every moment and era of the past all at once […] The only question is: where the hell do things go from here?”
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