From laerm Sent Tue, Jun 30th 1998, 04:54
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Upton wrote: > Re: any perceived decrease in quality over the past few years - I wonder > if it's being jaded. I find listening to very un-IDM music (programming > free, primarily song based stuff; or gamelan, or whatever) can work like > cleaning the palette when there's _so_much_ product out there now. this is how i feel when i write music. desires to write really hit me in strong streaks, usually depending on what i've been recently listening to. if i've been listening to a lot of ambient, and i feel a desire to write something, it usually turns out to be an aggressive industrial track. now, when i've been listening to industrial for awhile, and i feel a desire to write, and it turns out to be an industrial track, it's usually crap; whereas he one i wrote after listening to ambient for awhile is (imho) pretty good. same thing goes for hip-hop/post-rock; jazz/synthpop; dub/idm. anyone else noticed this? * #### a disturbance in a system. #### laerm. @voicenet.com #### we decide what's wrong or right, we'd rather lose than fight/we're going down/without us you don't get no kicks, without us you do not exist/we are going down