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• It's that Detroit Shit...

UR* - Interstellar Fugitives 2 - Destruction Of Order - 21-Feb-06 12:09 PM
Very solid release. Spanning different genres from mellow downtempo, dark electro, detroit techno, hard breakbeat, it brings some massive tunes, Mad Mike's ones above all.

Just a curious thing: the cover is based around the Ultradyne logo.

Ultravox - Vienna - 17-Feb-06 12:50 PM
Obviously Cybotron's "Alleys of your Mind" sounds really similar to Mr.X, but the fact are these:

1) this kind of electronic drumming is typical of these years, neither Juan Atkins nor Ultravox invented anything.

2) The ultravox song has just one component of the famous equation buy Derrick May about Techno. This song doesn't show any influence from Afro-American Funk, one of the two components of Detroit Techno.

This song (Mr.X) is a beautiful example of New Wave Electro, beautifully crafted, melancholic, but it's like a Kraftwerk+Vangelis sum, instead of a futuristic Kraftwerk+GeorgeClinton sum, like Cybotron's track is....

So Ultravox didn't invent anything, imho.

Various - The Silicon Ghetto EP Vol. 3 - 22-Jan-06 01:32 PM
Considering the similarity between the X-Ternal Pulse's track and Wavejumper by Drexciya:
the two songs are not so far each other, but while the Drexciya track is quite funk and moving, this one is really static, different in style from Drexciya's productions.
What is strange to me is the fact that the first Ultradyne 12" has been released only two years later, in 1995 on Warp, while this track is from 1993, two years before every news of Ultradyne & related.
Anyhow I can feel this track being more like an early inspiration, than a collaboration/side project.
We will never know..

Louis Haiman - Detachments - 14-Jan-06 12:53 PM
I received some copies of this promo after a long search, and I must admit that Louis' music is so inspired and deep detroit-rooted, even if it's really smooth, gentle and light.

Beautifully crafted sounds, simple but effective dry rhythms, nice melodies and pure inspiration in more than a couple of tracks (The Question of You, Soul Purpose).

Definitely alongside Detroit Escalator Company's work, Tony Drake, John Beltran's "Ten days of blue" and Sean Deason's "Allegory & Metaphor".