"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C
Friday, April 17, 2020
toddermost
try playing them all simultaneously !
christ, there's even more of them
oh and there's official ones too
And there's still more out there
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Had a major Todd jag at the start of the year, made a mix of all my faves - that was all I wanted to play for a couple of weeks. This, after a long, long period of never feeling the urge and almost forgetting his existence.
Two of my faves
One of the miracles of modern-era music, that sound he invented - but like all miracles it had its prime season (mid-to-late 90s) and then started to wear itself out with repetition and over-use. The same tricks that worked so well, reapplied, but the glow not there somehow - perhaps a side effect of him being able to afford better gear? (I saw a video from deep into the 2000s of him showing how he did the Sound - his studio looked like Jodrell Bank. So much equipment, so many blinking lights. I suspect the earlier stuff was done on much more basic and limited equipment, which gave a certain raw edge to the tesselated samples, saving it from the sickly wispiness of Enya's multi-tracked choir-of-self (One of Todd's inspirations of course, Enya).
In my music folder, TE is filed under Nuum. Honorary citizenship, bestowed on no other American, I don't think.
More of my fave Todd blisscapes
The other Todd.... Terry not worthy of entry into your Hall of Nuum?
ReplyDeleteYeah was gonna say, what about Todd Terry? Musto & Bones?
ReplyDeleteOh yes he definitely would be worthy of it - what with the hip hop / house merger, the samples-based approach, the ruffness, T Terry is indeed a foundational cornerstone figure in lots of way. But I have his stuff in the folder for House / Techno for some reason.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's because Todd Terry is big everywhere, universally rated (across the board in UK club culture, globally) whereas Todd Edwards's legend / repute within UK garage is so much bigger than it is in America, so he feels like he's been assimilated or taken over by Nuum - or perhaps, best understood by the Nuumists.
I remember going in a New York house music record store and asking for Todd E stuff and the clerk being very condescending, you could tell he was thinking "you Brits and your Todd E fetish"
Armand Van Helden is another American who has a special place in the heartcore
also Beltram - he's a cornerstone of the Hardcore Continuum, but also a cornerstone of the EuroHardcore Continuum, the Belgium>Gabba>Gloomcore line
Kevin Saunderson? ... Inventor of The Bassline, His Tronikhouse productions and he released some uk hardcore on kms
ReplyDeletei think these guys (Kevin, Armand, Joey B, Todd T) deserve consular status - diplomatic immunity etc - within the sovereign state of Nuum.
ReplyDeletebut they are too widespread in their importance to be Honorary Citizens like Todd Edwards
too many other territories worldwide have a claim on them, whereas ToddE is uniquely embraced and catalytic within Nuumland.
I get your reasoning Guv!
ReplyDeleteAre there any other Nuuminaries from outside the UK?
Frank De Wulf?
well I suppose at a certain point the Nuum and Belgium form a single territory, don't they?
ReplyDeleteso maybe all of the Belgians are honorary
perhaps the Italians are at a certain point
early in the 90s it's a pan-Euro (and beyond) rave sound - "techno" - with regional flavours emerging
and then in a way it's a kind of musical Brexit that takes place (disconcerting thought!)
we go our own way and what we do doesn't play well in other territories, except for little contingents of turned-on people who follow that path, are down with the logic of evolution and start up their little Brit-ophiles scenes