Along_the_Wire Is this your tedious opinion, or actual FACTS, Hugo? If it’s the former, we can all move on immediately, nothing to see here etc
It’s obviously not gospel, but to corroborate my view it does have the lowest rating on discogs of any mix CD he’d released up until that point (and those are averaged out from around 200-300 scores per CD).
I think the vast majority of people got in to Digweed because of his prog sound, not what he plays on this CD. The mid-late 00s was generally a crap time for music with prog dying and the electro/minimal sound not being up to replacing it (similar to maxiqum’s commnt in the other fabric CD thread). It unsurprisingly sounds pretty dated now and a clear departure from what Diggers played before (and to an extent after).
That’s even before you get in to the disc having no flow and jumping about all over the place. There are some tracks like ‘Venom’, ‘Knob Job’ and ‘Happiness’ that are tacky ear-rape - but if you like the sound of plodding beats, corny vocals and robots farting then go ahead. There’s also a general lack of ‘oomph’ across the disc, even by his current standards. The only decent bits were the three tracks at the start and the two at the finish.
