An interview with BT

udp · Post by **udp** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:34 pm

I found this to be an excellent interview By Jason Bentley. They discuss the new electronic/dance grammy category, how BTuses Ableton Live in his dj set up, and has an incredible remix of "the Great Escape"(my personal favorite off of Emotional Technology. There are seveal other interesting interviews on this page including one with Adam Freeland and one with Sasha. Enjoy! http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl? ... pe=program

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:59 pm

It's good to know Keanu Reeves can have a replacement voice over guy...

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:31 pm

thanks for the link. After all the BT bashing that was going on here I started listening to Emotional Technology again and have since found it to be one of the most incredible albums i have ever heard. All that i thought was cheesy before is now intense positive emotion! That album ties together nearly every form of western music i can think of... dance, rock, metal, pop, country, classical, jazz, gospel, blues, rap, psychedelic, avant garde...and its incredibly deep. In fact, its made it hard to listen to anything else. Funny that an album i could hardly stand to listen to at first has, after a year, become one of my all-time favorites

udp · Post by **udp** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:45 pm

For something totally different try BT's soundtrack recording to the movie "Monster". It's also incredibly deep, but on a psychological level. Definitely not an uplifting piece either, but excellent music.

the ar · Post by **the ar** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:49 pm

Excellent interview(s).

Macrostructure · Post by **Macrostructure** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:02 pm

sweetjesus wrote:It's good to know Keanu Reeves can have a replacement voice over guy...

Oh..the banter....

DISUYE · Post by **DISUYE** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:23 pm

Fark - check out the Lavelle interview ... Keanu talks more than James does!

Dan

Rx · Post by Rx » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:20 pm

now if only BT would provide the secret to his hair...

ultrasource · Post by **ultrasource** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:43 pm

Paul Mitchell

jahnlay · Post by **jahnlay** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:28 pm

Ha, ha, that photo on emotional technology is the cheesiest thing I've ever seen, he looks like a boyband member. Amazing album though, thanks for the link!

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:22 pm

i don't know... i think the photo on the front is part of the whole headfuck of ET. He recognizes that doing music with a guy from nsync and mixing in such a "pop" sound is going to mess with people, so he uses it, dives right into it. At least that's how i experienced it... the hair and pop turned me off so that when i finally "got" the album it was all the more powerful and humbling. Its an album that almost always provokes strong reaction... as AdamJay said about Operator : "the best things in life are loved and hated by many."

Rx · Post by Rx » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:24 pm

i haven't listened to Emotional Technology at all, but i do listen to and enjoy ESCM and the breakbeat choon he did with Adam Freeland. this does not excuse his hair, tho, nor the needless name-dropping as he is wont to do (when you've got as much recognition as he has, why name-drop?).

udp · Post by **udp** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:36 pm

Well, yeah guys, I think if we cut off his hair he wouldn't be able to write a note.javascript:emoticon(':roll:') Listen to "monster" it really is incredible film music.

olafmol · Post by **olafmol** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:51 am

i only listen to BT's music if the track didn't use MIDI, because that's too old and slow, and the track needs at least 3232323239449 audio edits every minute.....otherwise i don't care about it

udp · Post by **udp** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:00 pm

Speaking of old, he actually used a Hurdy-Gurdy on the Monster sound track. Now thats old.