From Tom Millar Sent Mon, Mar 22nd 1999, 03:09
From Tom Millar Sent Mon, Mar 22nd 1999, 03:09
Well, I guess it's obvious which side of the 4/4 kick issue I stand on from my posts, but I'm going to throw in my heavily biased two cents anyway. I love Substance to death, for one thing. The reason I think lots of Chain Reaction, Rauschen series stuff (on Force Inc.) and the like is great is because it has the experimental, glitchy underwater-dot-matrix-printer sound to it while at the same time it KICKS, especially on a throbbing stereo or a PA. I hated house beats for a while, because they were everywhere and they were all the same, but as I tried to write more and more of my own songs with unconventional beats I realized that the classic backbeat has more mileage left in it than just about any other rhythm out there. If you build a giant experimental structure, what good is it if you can't walk inside it, touch it, use it? Techno & ambient is the musical equivalent of industrial design, to me, because form and function are so carefully meshed together. Beats are ergonomic, in a way. Of course you shouldn't use the same design for everything, but that doesn't mean you have to move all the letters around on the keyboard when you make a new computer. Tom