Re: (idm) Ae new lp - a quick mention

From Adam Huffman
Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 09:33

On Tue, 19 May 1998 xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx wrote:

> On 05/19/98 18:26:22 you wrote:
>  
> >Hmmm.  I was trying to think of a clever phrase and that was all I
> >managed.  What I should have said was that a lot of the melody on that
> >track sounds like live playing
> 
> why would you think it wasn't live playing? how do you think autechre
> records are created? psychic powers on sean and rob's part? or did you
> mean it sounds like live instruments (guitars? horns?) haven't heard the
> track yet so i can't comment. 
> 

Sigh.  What I meant was it sounded as though they had left the parts I was
referring to unquantised, having simply played on top of the existing
track.  Not all that unusual an event, granted, but it *sounds* different
to the more usual Ae style.  As it happens I do know how "techno tracks
are made".

adam