god i love your sig. bt may be arrogant, but damned if he cant be poignant.
Glad you like it
I sort of disagree on the
arrogant thing, he's just saying exactly what's on everyone else's mind but they're too polite or PC to say it. Plus if someone's riding on the back on of a genre so connected with an artist and they see other artists (I use that term VERY loosely) ploughing it into the ground I think they're justified in being at least mildly negative if not angry about it.
He's in the position where sweeping statements like that don't make him arrogant, it's music that's sort of **** (not a typo) out of the genre's he's been connected with forming over the years. On a similar note I think Ozzy Ozborne is right to slate most of the modern rock stuff for just being noise, people screaming and practically no melody. It's true, well there's nickelback, puddle of mud and a few like that that are coming out now and they're probably not what he's refering to because they right good songs and they're music doesn't stink either but I'd agree with what both artists are saying about the majority of the music they're refering to without calling them arrogant.
I think BT enjoyed all the trance/progressive house stuff, he was part of that whole thing, still is along with people like sasha and paul van dyk. All of them have evolved as artists and come up with even more original sounds since while the modern (read commericalised) interpretation of the style is no more than a rehash of the happy hardcore scene of the early '90s, riding on the back of the credibility and originality that 'trance' or 'progressive house' once meant as a genre.
Just to bring it back on topic, anyone heard "The Tower That Ate People" off the Peter Gabriel "OVO" album ? It's co-produced by BT and it's got that whole sound BT has to it while sounding like classic Gabriel stuff too. You shouldn't even need to have a massively eclectic taste in music like I do to appretiate it either.
