Word: remixing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...music certainly does. His most recent release, Music for the Maases, contains much of his groundbreaking work from the past several years, including releases under the pseudonyms Orinoko and Kinetic A.T.O.M. Also included is the track that sparked his latest rise to global prominence, a groove-laden remix of Azzido Da Bass's "Doom's Night." Flight delays threatened to wreak havoc with the German producer-DJ's recent tour stop in Boston, but we caught up with him after an in-store set at Sound Factory in Allston...
...perhaps the greatest indicator of Maas' success was the absence of a riotous response to "Dooms Night," the Azzido Da Bass track whose ubiquitous remix catapulted Maas to the forefront of the international scene. The crowd certainly ate it up, roaring with anticipation as the familiar shuffling beat filtered from the speakers, but not so much that anyone could call Maas a one-remix wonder. If anything, they much preferred lesser-known but equally well-crafted Maas tracks, occasionally jumping up and down with the reckless abandon of seventh-graders at a school dance. That's not to say that...
...trying to alphabetize a couple of hundred CDs. But then, like a lot of kids my age, I started doing Napster. Seven hundred downloads later, my collection is hopelessly Balkanized. To listen to a Moby track, I can stick a CD on the stereo. But to hear the remix, I have to run downstairs, fire up the PC and select the right MP3. I tried ripping all my CDs onto my computer, but its 2-GB hard drive gave out before...
...initially thrown off by its weird, shuffling beats, even the most funk-deprived booties will succumb to the awesome mess of kick drums, crisp snares, fat melodic bass and sensuous vocals that soon follow. The remaining tracks mirror this musical blueprint with fairly uniform degrees of success. Even a remix of an All Saints song manages to sound fresh...
...frivolity with a line of high-tech toys called Intel Play. The latest is the Computer Sound Morpher ($49), which looks a lot like a personal communicator from a '50s sci-fi flick. Armed with Intel's Morpher, kids can record voices and other sounds and then edit, distort, remix and generally transmogrify them on their PCs. Warning: parental commands may lose some authority when played back in "chipmunk" mode...