Re: elseq

From Sham Beam
Sent Sat, Oct 1st 2016, 23:32
that totally resonates. I was listening to The Age of Adz from Sufjan 
Stevens yesterday in the car and there were a few "fucking hell, how
did he do that?" moments.



On 1/10/2016 4:30 AM, Clint Anderson wrote:
> http://autechre.net.ua/en/interviews/interview10.htm
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> "It's about sleight of hand, where you're revealing things and then
> pulling them back. It's that sort of dynamic. But I think that's Hip
> Hop: the whole attitude of wanting to do people's heads in a little bit
> but also give them something that they'll really appreciate comes from
> that - Mantronix to early Bomb Squad --- where there were little tricks
> in there, and you knew the producer had stuck them in there because he
> knew it would do people's heads in. And it'd be like: fucking hell, how
> did he do that? Or, that's a totally mad thing to do with your track.
> But it didn't suffer because it wasn't. . ." Rob: "Wasn't a showcase for
> those ideas." Sean: "It was part of the flow and it worked. That's it
> really. That's how we've started describing it now."
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> "I think a lot of people, when they're constructing complex music, have
> this idea that for something maddeningly complex to change into
> something else that's maddeningly complex you've got to do it suddenly,"
> says Sean. "But there are millions of ways you can do it, because you
> can have your entire track changing piece by piece as it rotates, and
> that's what we're into We like things like a puzzle where it's revealing
> itself and changing. And you can almost follow it, because it works the
> same pace as your brain works. The trick is not to get it to work faster
> or slower, but to get it in tune with yourself. And obviously there are
> some people who work faster than that, and they'll hear it and think
> this is boring, and there are people who work slower than that, and
> they'll think this is too much. For us it's the right pace."
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> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Clint Anderson <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
> <mailto:xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>> wrote:
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>     yeah its interesting i would almost say its a return to their
>     classic style of the 'eternally unfolding secret tricks' tracks they
>     used to do where halfway through you finally sort of more or less
>     figured out what they were doing to get whatever effect/sound, and
>     then the second half was just that much more badass
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Sham Beam