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      Just to clarify, I have a chat with Rod Modell every year at the 
Detroit fest and this year I brought up both the 'shift in style' from 
record to floor plus the muddied sound, which plagued the Movement set a 
few days ago as well. I think it was Tristan who speculated that someone 
probably advised them to roll out a dancier set for the European crowd, 
and that is *exactly* what happened. In fact, they was told that 
although Berghain, Fabric, etc. really like their recorded material, 
they had no interest in booking them unless they modified the set 
accordingly.
      As for the mud in the mix, they're trying to sort that. Apparently 
there has been a tussle with techs over the bass levels and Modell 
suspects the protective techs are compressing the sound to the point 
where it leave littles else but bass thuds. For the record, Rod is no 
babe in woods when it comes to engineering sound; he bought his first 
synth in 85 and has been working at it since.
      It IS a shame he can't hear what it sounds like in the crowd; he 
knew it was a fight with the sound techs, but had no idea it's coming 
off as thuddy as it is. Normally I'm a bit standoffish when it comes to 
hobknobbing (shyness, really), but I know Rod a bit and felt I owed that 
to him.

					jeff


I'm sure Tristan will elucidate far more than I could, as he was fuming! 
The sound was
>> muddy, so you couldn't hear the treble at all, but this was an hour of relentlessly dull dub techno with no variation or subtlety
>> whatsoever, and a real shame because one of them (not mr Modell) was having the time of his life behind the laptop. A shame he
>> couldn't obviously hear what sh*te we were hearing.
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