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Funny you say that, I always felt like the previous two albums felt kind of empty, almost as if the production wasn’t finished. I felt like that at the time it came out too, and there were better, more “complete” contemporary works in the genre (although hardly any had airplay at the time).
This had a new energy and felt every bit the polished album that they were due. Then the radio stations played it to death.
One man’s polished is another man’s over-produced.
Clearly the sound of this album resonated more with the mainstream, but I always felt like the addition of so much distortion, both to the sampling and to the synth, started to get away from what I liked about the genre. The pure waves of the digital instruments are why I liked techno. I had analog genres of music if I wanted to listen to something dirty sounding.