Emerson DJ Review from RA

[joethelion]

hey - remember that album of his that was "coming out this fall with a single due by the end of the summer"

...back like...

SIX YEARS AGO??????

[holden]

Darren Emerson was the young hot-shot DJ in like 1992-94. I'd give him credit for helping R&K develop their electronic dance sound (although they were well on their way on their own), and for being a road-tester of tracks in his DJ sets and and extra set of hands at the mixing desk.

I admit to not knowing too much about him solo, but what i've heard hasn't been too impressive.

I also recall two DJ sets he did while with UW - the second disc in the Beaucoup Fish interview set, where his mixing is terrible,
and a 1996 essential selection (includes Air Towel, Pearls Girl, telematic among others) that is also pretty bland and a little less than perfect in the transitions department.
Further, a while back, a circa 1996 interview appeared on these boards
http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forum...rson+interview
where Daz came off as sounding like he was responsible for UW's success and was the major creative control. Maybe his ego was just inflated by NUXX taking off (and certainly he's more gracious in the BF interviews, etc), but still...

Maybe i'm just picking out the low moments, and there are probably plenty of highs (i used to quite like his remix of Fatboy Slim's "bird of prey" amnd Sven Vath's "Harlequin").