From The Rare Guy Sent Sun, Feb 1st 1998, 19:32
On Sunday, 01-Feb-98, H James Harkins wrote [about (idm) guitars]: >> Why is it that guitars and electronic music just don't go together? >> For some reason whenever a guitar comes in on an electronic track >> it just sounds pretty cheesy... >In addition to the other reasons mentioned, guitars are a code for some >ideas that are very difficult to integrate into an electronic aesthetic >(if they're not 100% incompatible)--such as, good old-fashioned >authenticity, defiant working-class hero kind of stuff (or the much >cheesier sort of overblown, insecure "masculinity" found in hair-metal >bands of the 80's). This might be part of why Kent suggested that the most >successful uses of guitar in electronic music depend on the avoidance of >standard guitar formulas--b/c the formulas themselves become part of that >"image," which has no place in this kind of music (except maybe an ironic >one). well here's my .02 on the whole guitars debate.. I think it's most definitely possible, because under certain types of effects, a guitar can sound wicked as fuck. That's my .02 in a one-sentence form :) Also if you've heard the Cloudwatch CD, there's a track on there (track #8) by DJ Who and PJ Dorsey (of Modern Music).. and that's got quite a few guitar samples there, and the track rules IMO. __ __\ \ / /_\ \ \_____/ www.freq-div.home.ml.org