Re: (idm) Re: the Amen break

From Hrvatski
Sent Wed, Jun 9th 1999, 07:33

>> Either way, Amen's clearly not dead (frankly I'm getting more sick of
>> hearing the fucking Sonic Decimator than certain breaks, and yes that's a
>> direct Kid 606 stab).
>
>i'm pretty damn tired of hearing that Thonk program, actually. Gets old
>quick like a bastard, considering I've only recognized its use by three
>people (Lesser, Kim Cascone, & We).

I dunno, just got Thonk 0+2 from Tom Erbe's site
(http://shoko.calarts.edu/~tre/CompMusMac/), it gives you 10 more options:

Pentathon
Shepard
Dis
Octaves stretch to 1 minute
Octaves stretch to 5 minutes
Plain stretch to 1 minute
Plain stretch to 5 minutes
Flash
Slack
ztochast!k=akadem!k wank (a bit of self-deprecating humour never hurts)

along with yr classic Flowing/Hectic algorithms.

You have to admit, use by Kim Cascone, Lesser & We doesn't exactly count
for 'played out', but yeah, I've seen that one around since 1992, it's a
bit old & a compositional sham anyways. People should should get more into
coding their own DSP's (thank fucking god for MSP/Pluggo, can't cane it
'nuff...). It's crazy cause stuff like basic Akai Timestretching still
fills my eyes+ears w/wonder...

> 'Fuck it, if it sounds good,
>> use it'. I think in the long run it'd be more pretentious to avoid using
>> it... -Våt
>
>Absolutely. You should hear my shit from when I was avoiding
>four-on-the-floor like the plague. Actually, you shouldn't, it's all
>total wank crap.

Right, when you went back to 4/F it was a breath of fresh air, like getting
back together with the only girlfriend you were actually in love with...
-Våt

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