after watching and reading the 'commix techno studio session' and 'dusted' album is it really the end of drum and bass for commx?
whats all this 'cmx' project about? are they wiping their hands of dnb?
i really hope they dont can spoonfed in cambs, its my omly outlet for dnb as cable is shit and warning has become such a joke. commix/logistic and nu:tone inspired me and a group of friends to put on our own night in our home town and id be devastated to find out their hanging up their dnb headphones up for good.
can anybody shed any light on this? metalheadz uk?
Quite a misleading thread title... I think I did read they were gonna concentrate on other genres. Real shame as they have a wicked discography. I still play tracks from Call To Mind in most of my sets. Great LP
“When we wrote ‘Call To Mind’ we really wanted to make sure every tune on the album worked as part of the whole. We wrote loads of tracks and some of them just wouldn’t have worked on the album. Tracks like ‘Golden’ came close to being on there, but we worked really hard to make sure everything on ‘Call To Mind’ fitted together perfectly.”
“Dusted is a collection of music that we made at that time, all of which didn’t appear on the finished product. We get asked so often about all of these and now that we’re working on a new album we thought it was time to let these ones go. This is the end of an era for Commix and our next album will be the start of a brand new one for CMX.”
there are a couple of studio sessions floating around in another thread where you can hear some of the techno they're making. i like techno, but i think it's pretty dull stuff unfortunately
I'd much rather hear them make music they want to make rather than music they feel they have to make in order to please people who think that Drum & Bass is the be all and end all of music in general.
I'd much rather hear them make music they want to make rather than music they feel they have to make in order to please people who think that Drum & Bass is the be all and end all of music in general.
This.
Drum & Bass is pretty restricted, the majority of its audience are narrow minded and 80% of the music released its total crap.
Commix have been one of the best producers over the last 10 years. If they moved away from dnb althogether it would be at the scene's loss. I wish them every success in what they do or whatever path they decide to go down but to me it would feel like a small part of the scene had died.
For dnb producers to get such acclaimed respect in the dance music world is quite special IMO. Always getting reviews in mixmag ect and now doing well in house/techno
but yes it would be a metaphorical nail in the dnb coffin for me personally
< Message edited by jwalka -- 22/1/2012 9:41:04 PM >
Anyone who was listening to electronic music, and particularly drum and bass, in 2007 will clearly remember the arrival of Commix’ critically acclaimed debut album ‘Call To Mind’. At that time breakbeat music clocking up more than 170bpms was heavily dominated by a swathe of Pendu-clones and a propensity to squash just about every piece of dynamic headroom a digital audio file could offer.
Rather than follow the path so heavily trodden by their peers, Commix offered a beautiful and simplistic alternative. Trackssuch as the uplifting ‘Be True’ and the sweetly vocalled ‘How You Gonna Feel’ sat next to techno-influenced numbers such as ‘Satellite Type 2’ and ‘Japanese Electronics’, creating a mood and vibe that was irrefutably special.
Fast forward nearly five years and Commix’ place in musical history remains just as relevant as it did in the wake of their debut. Having released the ‘Call To Mind’ remix album ‘Re:Call To Mind’ in 2010, including reworks from Burial,Underground Resistance, Instra:mental and D-Bridge amongst many others, Commix further cemented their reputation as the thinking man’s production duo. Undeniably the demand for Commix’ music has always been high.
With message boards (and now Facebook pages) burning up at the very mention of any new material and, following their appearance on Fabio’s Radio 1 show, where they showcased a selection of unreleased material, Commix were inundated with requests from thousands of fans across the globe about a swathe of tracks all produced between 2003 and 2008.
“When we wrote ‘Call To Mind’ we really wanted to make sure every tune on the album worked as part of the whole. We wrote loads of tracks and some of them just wouldn’t have worked on the album. Tracks like ‘Golden’ came close to being on there, but we worked really hard to make sure everything on ‘Call To Mind’ fitted together perfectly.”
“Dusted is a collection of music that we made at that time, all of which didn’t appear on the finished product. We get asked so often about all of these and now that we’re working on a new album we thought it was time to let these ones go. This is the end of an era for Commix and our next album will be the start of a brand new one for CMX.”
Commix Dusted (CD Album) Metalheadz METHCD015 1) Time Has Come 2) Change On Me 3) MFSB 4) Everything 5) Golden 6) I Have You 7) Untitled (Sept ‘06) 8) Tracking You 9) Audience 10) EXP 11) Envious (Original Commix Demo Version) 12) Autumn Rides Buy now
Commix Dusted (Vinyl Version) Metalheadz METHCD015 A) Time Has Come B) Everything C) EXP01 D) Autumn Rides Buy now
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commix dead?? - 
That almost never happens.
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