alipaul wrote:Okay but it would interesting to know what people rate his contributions to EM are ?
Whats he done since TD that as made him stand out
Lately I have been listening to a lot of "new" music coming out by some artists who seem to have a big following in the electronic music scene. I listen with an open mind but I am always disappointed by the lack of originality. I am not a musician but even I know when something is just rehashed.
The reason I am mentioning this is because recently I listened to all of Chris Frankes solo stuff from 1991 when PCH came out up to 1996 when he released The Celestine Prohphecy. Those 5 albums he brought out in that 5 year period is outstanding music and even today 12 years later sounds a lot better than the majority of new stuff coming out at the moment(mainly from GB acts I must add).
It is quite amusing to me that there are acts now doing the TD formula of yesterday yet the main man himself Edgar Froese is producing music of the sort of originality you would expect from the new and upcoming acts.
I guess what I am trying to get at is I find annoying that Chris Franke gets slagged off so much yet acts that just do a rehashed 70s TD sound get hero worship. It is ironic to me that Chris Franke was part of that period of TD that so many acts like to copy nowdays and seem to sell so many albums.
It is sad a man of CF talant seems to be happy making B5 music and scoring for not good movies and Supernanny US. But for his contribution to TD and his early solo music he deserves a bit more respect than what he seems to get.
I wont get involved with slagging him off anyway