From Kent Williams Sent Tue, Jun 22nd 1999, 15:05
From Kent Williams Sent Tue, Jun 22nd 1999, 15:05
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Gil Yaker wrote: > Interesting debate between a friend of mine and my brother. > > My friend is a synth purist. His studio is all analog gear except for 1 digi > synth and 1 digi drum machine. His music sound like classic tangerine dream > quite often. He does the german trance thing too. > > OTOH > My brother has two main instruments...both are samplers. Most of the time all > of his source material is jazz / early electronic experimental / psychadelic > rock / funk records. He mangles all the sounds and recontenxtualizes them to > staggering degrees, but for the most part, he stays away from synths. > > Now...whose music is more organic??? > I've heard some of your brother's tracks and they are indeed very good, and while I don't know this other bloke, I see no reason why one method is superior to another. And all music is a perfectly synthetic creation; no reason to try and judge authenticity just on the production technique. > Ideas? > (and no, I've never heard oval. is there a domestic (us) release or some > mp3s?) Oval has records out domestically, I believe on Thrill Jockey out of Chicago. A web search will turn up where you can get it...