From Guy Elden Sent Thu, Apr 9th 1998, 22:46
From Guy Elden Sent Thu, Apr 9th 1998, 22:46
> >if i remember correctly that compilation was put together > >by friends of richard. tracks compiled from the many cassette > >recordings he gave his friends. so if the tracks were mastered > >from cassettes you can't expect great sound. > > that's no excuse! granted there are variations in source material, but > underground resistance and the rest of the submerge crew mastered > everything on cassette too, though any lack of sonic resolution on > either's part is debatable. > I think the point is that Richard wasn't as serious back in the days when he was just monkeying around, creating weird sounds, building his own synths, and lucid dreaming until 4 in the afternoon. The tracks from that era sound far and away better than any samples, resampled, or filtered fart I've ever heard. I quite like the noise on SAW-I, actually. It's unintentional, and ads to the raw creativity that the music originated from in the first place. -- jr