From artist Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 18:53
From artist Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 18:53
>> I think the RDJ album transcends its sillyness and becomes something >> utterly different after you've heard it a few times. >Nah mate, it's still an uneven collection of tracks for the most part, >not cohesive or coherent on the whole you mean YOU cannot make anything coherent of it... to me it all makes sense! >doesn't compare to Analogue >Bubblebath 3 (66% More Bubbles) as far as that department goes ab3 is the release with some substandard tracks for me, not rdj. but i love ab3, and track 4 (on the cd) is one of my 2-3 favourite rdj tracks - the inclusion of some less-than-perfect tunes doesn't degrade the rest at all. >> For starters, I don't really believe all this crap about music having soul. >HAHAHAHAHA ... let's forward this to the 313 list shall we? i'll take a quote from the liner of 'retro techno detroit definitive' in that case.... 'this record (nude photo) was devoid of soul. it was, however, steeped in spirit.' >> This may offend some people, but the only things that matter are >> diversity and originality. i would say even those don't matter myself. it is about knowing what sounds work, and absolutely nothing more. >> This is what forms so called emotion or soul >> in music (for me >You've lost it mate, like Otto said, it can either be that which causes a >shiver to go down your spine (personally, I can throw a fair number of >tracks into this bin, Joy Division's "Dead Souls" and "Atmosphere" for >starters well great, i love joy division, but the emotion in their music can be pinned down, it is self-evident in the lyrics. where do you pin down the emotional message in an instrumental piece of music? >last track on "Bluff Limbo" and Reload's "Event Horizon" as well, >all of 'em provoke involuntary full-body shivers, that's what it's all about), >or something which just drips hot buttered soul (re-read the Subject: line) all great pieces of music. but this emotional reaction is unique to yourself, you take something from the music and make it your own. making music (of this kind) is not a very spiritual or soulful experience, it's painstaking and you never achieve what you wanted at the start. all you can do is blunder through it, making happy mistakes along the way. the real skill, like i mentioned above, is knowing the right sounds when you hear them. personally i feel nothing towards the music i make because i spend so long constructing and deconstructing every part that in the end it means nothing to me. i just know what sounds work and hopefully in the end it will turn out alright. taking in a long breath and producing a subconscious expression of the soul? it doesn't work like that at all. aphex is not john coltrane. >And as far as I'm concerned "Start As You Mean To Go On" blows the rest into >the weeds, although I'm in the minority I'm sure (I don't belong to the >"Alberto Balsalm is total godhead" posse). i don't like alberto balsam at all, i think it's the worst thing afx ever did. my vote goes to mookid. cheerio! np - ab3.8cd - afx