From The Rare Guy Sent Sun, Feb 1st 1998, 19:32
From The Rare Guy Sent Sun, Feb 1st 1998, 19:32
On Sunday, 01-Feb-98, H James Harkins wrote [about (idm) guitars]:
>> Why is it that guitars and electronic music just don't go together?
>> For some reason whenever a guitar comes in on an electronic track
>> it just sounds pretty cheesy...
>In addition to the other reasons mentioned, guitars are a code for some
>ideas that are very difficult to integrate into an electronic aesthetic
>(if they're not 100% incompatible)--such as, good old-fashioned
>authenticity, defiant working-class hero kind of stuff (or the much
>cheesier sort of overblown, insecure "masculinity" found in hair-metal
>bands of the 80's). This might be part of why Kent suggested that the most
>successful uses of guitar in electronic music depend on the avoidance of
>standard guitar formulas--b/c the formulas themselves become part of that
>"image," which has no place in this kind of music (except maybe an ironic
>one).
well here's my .02 on the whole guitars debate..
I think it's most definitely possible, because under certain types of
effects, a guitar can sound wicked as fuck.
That's my .02 in a one-sentence form :) Also if you've heard the Cloudwatch
CD, there's a track on there (track #8) by DJ Who and PJ Dorsey (of Modern
Music).. and that's got quite a few guitar samples there, and the track
rules IMO.
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