From Solenoid Sent Tue, Jul 28th 1998, 20:33
From Solenoid Sent Tue, Jul 28th 1998, 20:33
I did some more listenning. The track which sounds like it is continually
slowing down has the tempo moving slower through 4 measures and as it
crosses the speed at about half the tempo, some more accents are added
such that it starts sneaking into double-time before flipping back to the
higher tempo at a new measure.
This is similar to the synth programming effect of making your "eternally
pitching down" sound, where the sound starts high, slowly goes down, and
as it crosses a harmonic octave or two or three lower than it started, the
starting sound sneaks in and the low sound fades gracefully out. Not
recommended listenning/tweaking for when you are stoned and your head
already feels like it weighs 70 lbs (couple "stones" to you brits... not
that I'm throwing rocks (I'm on the Pacific coast and can't throw that far
;-P))
Similarly, there is a track on the beginning of that same side of the
vinyl that slows down about halfway through the track to some other tempo.
This is what they did on "The Egg" on the Warp AI comp. It is something
most programmers probably avoid since it throws the track's
"beatmatch-ability" rating off the bottom of the chart. (This reminds me
of this Like A Tim track that cuts out at a completely arbitrary place and
just has his mom or someone talking to him and just mic noise, then 20 sec
later the music cuts back in during the middle of a measure, ah hah hah,
whatta evil bastard!)
Anything avoided in standard dance music becomes "new" again after it
being absent so long. It all makes sense if you keep in mind that
full-blown prog rock is where everybody is heading, OF COURSE! <troll>
Solenoid
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, zimbo wrote:
>
> > Which is a pretentious way of saying that it's another autechre record,
> > they've spent some more time advancing their sound design, and I like
> > it better than Chiastic Slide, which had a couple of tracks that I thought
> > were really bad -- the slow, ambientish ones.
>
> im curious if you thought the tracks were bad because they were slow and
> ambientish.. and if not, what did you find displeasing about them?
>
> im just curious, because chiastic slide for me is one of the most original
> albums i have heard in a long time (not to devalidate your opinion, im
> just curious why you were not into the tracks...)
>
> thanks,
>
> chris.
>
>
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