From Arjun Mendiratta Sent Fri, Oct 17th 1997, 11:32
From Arjun Mendiratta Sent Fri, Oct 17th 1997, 11:32
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, -0 wrote: > > a. Focus you attention on wicked beats (Ae are masters at this!) SAWII? > b. make the beats distorted to get even more wicked (RDJ gets the > credit b/x he was distorting beats back when Ae was using a dry > 606/808 on Incunabula) actually distorto beats should be credited to > the industrial artists from back in the day.... So what about the current electro rejuvenation? Everyone's using a dry 808 these days. > > c. add some small little melody/synth line on top (Ae does this > plenty, esp on Chicli Suite/Chiastic Slide) RDJ has too many tracks to > mention that do this. BOCHUM WELT is 100% guilty. Squarepusher often forgets about this completely. > d. Loop it, let it run forever (Ae no doubt) True unfortunately. > e. cut out loop A here, cut out loop B there, bring back loop a, etc. > pretty obvious stuff. Only obvious after dub came along. > > I don't know how to make the wicked sounds that Ae and the like do, > but all these minimal IDM artists do follow a standard formula. except for The Black Dog, B12, Scala (not really minimal IDM I guess), Mouse on Mars, Plug (the EP's at least), FSOL, Elfish Echo, Bisk, Funki Porcini...and that's just trying to stick to the 'mainstream.' I don't mean to nitpick, but there's already enough people off the list who think that techno is a bunch of computers making a whole crapload of music that all sounds the same. :) -arjun