2.7.11

Bass haters ~ a reissue with too much bass?


Here's a quote coming from a Jack-purist who thinks Rush Hour’s House of Trax reissues have too much bass:

"Instead listening to a House of Trax reissue is like hearing a Berlin style sound engineer re-imagining what an African American man in 80′s Chicago would have liked his record to sound like if he had access to a Funktion 1 system and a copy of Logic Pro. The records are soaked in bass, so much so that the interplay between sonic elements along with any sense of space is replaced by a resiliently dense low end, in line with what contemporary records sound like and theoretically what people ‘want’, but nonetheless remaining a far cry from the tone and expression present in the original releases."

Here's the full text