I don't get the hype with this Adam Pits music. To me it revisits some of the worst aspects of 90s dance culture, underworld, sasha, the whole stream of airbrushed, identikit superclub Global Underground comps (which in any case were never as futuristic as say, techstep and neurofunk) etc. With the Blue Hour/Alpha Tracks stuff there's still that endearing wide eyed naivete apparent in the first wave of trance circa 91-94.
This is where I dissent with the business techno orthodoxy. For sure, business techno music is absolutely diabolical (no disagreement there!) but some of the more 'serious' techno trance seems to ignore the (to me) good reasons for techno and trance splitting apart by the end of 94 — in a way say Dozzy and Marco Shuttle didn't. They still acknowledged the psychedelic hypnotic roots of techno without trying to make anything resembling mid 90s trance. Are people really going to be so desperate to be validated in their kitsch that we will end up listening to goa at techno partieds? It's already happening with people like Jane Fitz, an absolute nadir for sure.
Here is an excerpt from a kulor review I wrote on discogs, and I'm aware that Kulor is way cheesier than anything the pits/terenzi/paramida crew have put out:
"One has to wonder with all this revival hyper-mania, why noone is reviving, say, early 00s mille plateau, boogizm, Klang Elektronik, Neue Heimat, Don't recordings, Mathematics recordings, Playhouse etc. Perhaps because it's music which demands effort and time and that's too close to the mythical phantom of the 'purist techno bro', whatever the hell that is given the diversity of the aforementioned labels."
I don't get the hype with this Adam Pits music. To me it revisits some of the worst aspects of 90s dance culture, underworld, sasha, the whole stream of airbrushed, identikit superclub Global Underground comps (which in any case were never as futuristic as say, techstep and neurofunk) etc. With the Blue Hour/Alpha Tracks stuff there's still that endearing wide eyed naivete apparent in the first wave of trance circa 91-94.
This is where I dissent with the business techno orthodoxy. For sure, business techno music is absolutely diabolical (no disagreement there!) but some of the more 'serious' techno trance seems to ignore the (to me) good reasons for techno and trance splitting apart by the end of 94 — in a way say Dozzy and Marco Shuttle didn't. They still acknowledged the psychedelic hypnotic roots of techno without trying to make anything resembling mid 90s trance. Are people really going to be so desperate to be validated in their kitsch that we will end up listening to goa at techno partieds? It's already happening with people like Jane Fitz, an absolute nadir for sure.
Here is an excerpt from a kulor review I wrote on discogs, and I'm aware that Kulor is way cheesier than anything the pits/terenzi/paramida crew have put out:
"One has to wonder with all this revival hyper-mania, why noone is reviving, say, early 00s mille plateau, boogizm, Klang Elektronik, Neue Heimat, Don't recordings, Mathematics recordings, Playhouse etc. Perhaps because it's music which demands effort and time and that's too close to the mythical phantom of the 'purist techno bro', whatever the hell that is given the diversity of the aforementioned labels."