Traxx - Faith album (Page 5 of 6)

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TrUth iZ KoURt

introspective is the jam i love that track, who is that guy talking?

was already wondering where the track went on my copy..

last week I checked the news in a recordshop, I was surprised to see the album as double vinyl. just a note for the vinyl junkies.

Yeah but what did you expect? I agree too with all that but they are positive things for me "The vocals on "Down 2 House" and "A Heart Alone" aren't just tuneless but so coarsely recorded they might as well have been cut with an old Dictaphone." hehe...awesome...and "These often feel more like sketches than thoughtfully executed blueprints." thats what house music needs...raw sketches!

and to compare his stuff with albums from Omar S and Theo Parrish...(which of many tracks are awesome too because they also sound like they are recorded on a dictaphone and very sketchfull...well maybe not so Theo Parrish they are just super deep soulfull compositions coming from a completely other angle) Traxx is in a totally different league with his music ...this album pretty much shows his uh music "beliefs" in a right manner I think. I still think its a very charismatic album.

Smackos, they should put this on your grave

yeah but them being raw sketches or badly produced don't really add any charm to the tracks like say with Theo Pharris. Whose tracks are badly produced but in a raw, good way There's a difference for me. That's the feeling I had, the Traxx album just felt poorly produced in a bad way. This is all IMHO. There were some good ideas and I liked a track or two (I think the one made with JTC). RRRRRaaawk. Anway, bad / oldskool production methods don't make house more real or legitimate in my opinion. And you still have to have good ideas. It's just a different texture.

Anyway, just my opinion, I'm not a house police lol

its all well and good to say that using old equipment and techniques wont make your work more legitimate or authentic, but neither will new techniques. the authenticity will be implicit in the tracks themselves wether theyre new or old, made on ableton or on a juno and a 707.
also the guy says traxx could have had soaring synth instead of bumbling synths, but doesnt everyone want soaring synths? when everyone is using soaring synths, i want to hear a bumbling one.
complaining about lyrics too? what the hell are you expecting to find on house record anyway?
i just get the feel the reviewer is saying, "if he did it this way, more people would listen" that is what's retarded IMHO

hehe that's why it sounds so bad
recording technique.. love the album but please next time better sound

why not?  for me it's part of the feel of chicago house

it goes hand in hand for me.  the rawness is what attracts me to it

mind you I just ordered this album and haven't heard it properly, I'm commenting about the general comments about making new tracks with old recording techniques...

I think it's safe to say that most people here disagree with that