From Graham H Freeman Sent Sun, Jun 6th 1999, 15:54
From Graham H Freeman Sent Sun, Jun 6th 1999, 15:54
.: idm-digest, 4 Jun 99, 18:56 :. > Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:28:16 -0400 > From: "Bill, Wright" <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> > Subject: Re: (idm) was ist das math rock? > > Math rock usaully denotes very complex and sometimes long songs which are > extremely dynamic. I don't know much about music theory, but a friend who > does was telling me the changes in an Ativin song and within the span of > about a minute it went from 4/4 to 11/7 to 5/4 to 7/8. (Those numbers may > be wrong, but you get the picture). Usaully all instrumental as well, and > very atmospheric and moody as well. > > THE math rock band is Don Caballero. I've mentioned this before, but I > can definitely see "What Burns Never Returns" being very easy to digest by > most list members. Incredibly intricate and fast drum programming, I mean > drumming and crazy sounds from a guitar and bass. (One of the song titles > is "Delivering the Groceries at 120 Beats Per Minute"). > > Others, which are math rocky include: Ativin, June of '44, Storm & Stress > (more on a free jazz vein), A Minor Forest, and Purkinje Shift. Yep. About the only math rock thing I can think of are King Crimson from 1973 onwards. "Fracture" being a case in point. But generally KC were/are more interesting than a lot of the wanky bands they got lumped in with. Even heard someone describe Robert Fripp as punk. n.p. Something rad I remixed. -- Graham Hubert Freeman. Graham the Happy Scum. WWGD. Your computer has been Alstoned. http://www.mpx.com.au/~gths mailto:xxxx@xxxx-xxxxx.xxx ... buggered if I know! yes, buggered if I know!