From Kent Williams Sent Mon, Aug 23rd 1999, 16:23
From Kent Williams Sent Mon, Aug 23rd 1999, 16:23
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Ethan wrote: > > IDM is all about crappy melodies. look at aphex twin - arguably the king > of crappy melodies, he is nonetheless usually able to make their > crappiness somehow appealing. the whole genre is afflicted with people > who think they can program some cool midi patterns and then throw lame > keyboard noodle loops on top of it. > That's perhaps the least charitable way of putting it. Really, it reflects more musical naivete than anything. You're hearing the musical ideas created by people who aren't really musicians. That isn't a diss to them -- that's basically the way of folk musicians throughout time. The result is different depending on the individual. Less satisfactory are people who carefully ape what they've already heard -- a lot of trance has this kind of thing. More interesting are people who just bang shit out semi-randomly, and then edit by selection to save the best bits. My personal rule is to never buy a record where you could play the lead line with an orange on the black keys.