From Sham Beam Sent Sun, Oct 2nd 2016, 09:55
From Sham Beam Sent Sun, Oct 2nd 2016, 09:55
> yes! age of adz has some awesome stuff. I really didn't like it at first but it's slowly been winning me over. :) On 2/10/2016 3:36 PM, Bruno Gola wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Sham Beam <xxxx.xxxx@xxxxx.xxx > <mailto:xxxx.xxxx@xxxxx.xxx>> wrote: > > 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. > > > yes! age of adz has some awesome stuff. > > > > > > > On 1/10/2016 4:30 AM, Clint Anderson wrote: > > http://autechre.net.ua/en/interviews/interview10.htm > <http://autechre.net.ua/en/interviews/interview10.htm> > > > > "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." > > "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." > > Clint Anderson > Systems Engineer > "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Clint Anderson > <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx <mailto:xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> > <mailto:xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx <mailto:xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>>> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- > Sham Beam > > > > > > -- > Bruno Gola <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx <mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>> > http://bgo.la/ -- Sham Beam