...he's constantly seen it as a sore point or sore period in his life. maybe it's connected to whatever personal turmoils he was going thru at the time, i know artists link some work with their troubles and i get THAT. but i dont even think thats the problem, and it has more to do with bowing to pressure, from listening to the WRONG ppl, to being influenced in a direction that completely SHAT upon the stellar work he did on "Embrya". man, i've OFTEN queried this entire chain of events, but he really did peak at "Embrya" (and all the awesome remixes that went along with it), and then slide back down into something...LESS afterwards. i still love all his work, but i can be honest enough to know, and feel, a marked decline SINCE "Embrya" (or since "Fortunate" hit big and changed everything, and which ironically had some of Max's BEST remixes to date on the CD single as b-sides).
and most of all, he lost a lot of what made him so damn likeable. it was a 'vibe' or at least an admiration for the amount of confidence and belief he had in himself as an individual entity. like, it seemed as if he was making decisions more in service of his overall art, following his own muse/Musze, as it were. and that was no better on show than with "Embrya". dude was just in TOUCH with a sound right there, that album was ALL of his influences mashed up into one sonically pleasing gumbo. shit was brilliant, and SO no overly-complicated as many ppl seemed to stupidly claim. it's some of the most easy to listen to shit ever created. it's noticeably PHAT, the drums knock, the guitars are FONKY, the percussion is live, n there's so many little things going on in the background that u need to listen to it on MULTIPLE different headphones to really capture the range of sounds present. and then u really start to appreciate the level of CARE that went into putting all of it together. like u could FEEL Max's heart and soul in that piece, which is a feeling that's been largely lost since then.

...wait wtf were we talking bout again? lol.

V.

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