From r. kidwell Sent Fri, Jul 30th 1999, 19:31
> But for me, the best Muziq tracks work because they're, well, > musical. If you can't appreciate what he's doing holistically, > go buy some phoenicia or rich devine. Not that I don't love > what they're doing, but their tracks by and large have no > emotional handle for users to listen to. The Rich Devine > tracks on the Ischemic compilation are all original sound designs, > and fiendishly complex, original drum programming. But if > you drop it into a set of any kind of music, you'll empty > the dancefloor faster than a neutron bomb. ahg man, we're locking horns again, eh? ahah.. anyway, i agree with you that there isn't a whole lot of accessible emotion in Richie Devine's stuff, or any of the schematic or chocolate industries catalogs for that matter. but i guess that's what there all about... however, there are artists that are doing music in a somewhat similar vein that DO have a lot of emotion. i think the best thing about lexaunculpt's stuff is that it gets very emotional at points. and there's emotion all over the MAS catalog. Wardhax by Michael Fakesch + the B1 track of the Swap EP are two of my favorites.. my own tracks are a sort of fusion of the mutilated mechanical sample beat programming and very emotional (and musical) melodies. i realize you probably weren't saying there's NO emotion in this strain of IDM, but i just wanted to bring up some examples to say that it doesn't have to be a trade off. and as far as Think and Amen go... once again i'm gonna have to reference Hrvatski and RKK as an example of breathing real life into classic breaks... ,rj../k