Re: (idm) the gear thread, cheap boxes

From Et Pharmacistic Paradoxia
Sent Fri, Mar 27th 1998, 18:28

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xx.xxx.xx wrote:

> >Well, as i posted a question earlier about sound quality, i thought i
> >would add my opinion. I have no money to spend on gear, and all i
> >have is a computer with a crap sound card and a mic. The music i've
> >made with JUST THAT is(IMO, i don't have outsiders opinions yet)
> >good.
> 
> JUST THAT ?!?! I don't know what are you talking about here.
> You just called computer witha a crap sound card and mic
> JUST THAT ?!?!? This is really brilliant gear if you know what
> to do with it...

Though it is only Tangentially IDM, there is a Erasure cover comp out
there on CD (there is a web page somewhere) that has a soundcard-made
track on it by the Cheap Bastards that is just an amazingly careful
composition of tuned samples.  It has all of the polyphonic parts and
everything and was assembled by one of the Cheap Bastards while he sat in
front of a pc for his tech-supp-phone-receptionist job!  Pretty
impressive, of course, he had the composition issue taken care of for him
already via doing a cover of a previous track.


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