moderadores: não sei se isto cabe aqui, mas como é uma entrevista em que ele fala - para lá de outras coisas - de produção, resolvi postar aqui...se houver outro local mais indicado...move it!
um bocado longe do epicentro da cena, este gajo continua a ser uma grande referência e de gago não tem nada...
a entrevista é de maio deste ano.
a entrevista completa está aqui.
destacava este pontos (os bolds são meus):
EW: Another aspect of computers and Drum & Bass is the heavy reliance on the Internet. Seemingly, the two grew side by side. How would it be different if it weren’t around?
Photek: Drum & bass grew up before the Internet, and I was a little bit down on the Internet when people first started sending emails, thinking ‘whatever -- just another way for people to hassle you’. I probably waited a year before even looking into it, and drum & bass had been going a long time before that happened. It’s helped spread the word about drum & bass, but the down side is that there are a lot of people out there on chat rooms and stuff, that probably haven’t really experienced the music in it’s real domain that much. It’s great that people can come back from a party and talk about it and spread the word of the music, but it’s very important that people do get out to the clubs and do get involved. The relationship between people and music is such a social thing, and I see a lot of people on the Internet who sound like they’ve never been to a serious event. It’s a great thing, but it does allow people to hide away in a little shell somewhere and talk shit. That’s not what the Internet is for, that’s just people.
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EW: Do you like the direction D&B is taking right now, in the last year specifically?
Photek: No. Not really. What I'm trying to do with my team is to raise the bar a little bit. There’s a lot of same old same old music, and a lot of music that’s a bit childish to be honest. I was going out to my first raves when I was fifteen, sixteen, and I was a kid but I wanted to hear serious music that was cool but some was just not cool, whatever angle you’re coming from. It’s comic, and I never liked that in music. I’d like music to move on from the more clown-like stuff. What I'm trying to do with my team is to put forward an alternative that blends it all with hip hop and other kinds of music; try to bring back the eclectic street sounds of drum & bass, instead of this studio nerdy funny music. I hear a lot of the people talking about “the production, the productionâ€


