Re: (idm)JJ Perrey

From the Quaternions
Sent Tue, Oct 27th 1998, 15:35

>JJ Perrey question:
>
>I just picked up a vinyl copy of "Eclectronicks" by JJ Perrey.  What's the
>story on this?
>I have the classic " In Sound from Way out" LP but this came as a
>suprise...and it's pretty
>cool to boot though incredibly *silly*.  Anyone? Is this new material?
>Should'nt he be about 150 years old by now?
I think that is new stuff, a collaboration with some other guy...  I keep on meaning to pick it up, but I'm scared that it'll be crap.  I think i heardit once and it did sound pretty good, but oh-so-dumb.
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>For all the in tune, out of tune debaters...where's your reference point
>for tuning?

I hate this thread.  But... If everything else in a piece is tuned to Western tonal pop standard, and one sample is out of tune, that could be crazy-making.  Atonal music is one thing, non-western tuning is another, "tonal" is a third, but a mixture is a mindfuck (for some people). And most IDM artists at least attempt Western tonal tuning, so it can suck (for some people) when they forget about samples (although I never notice out-of-tune samples).

Sam