Re: (idm) More Brain Dance info...

From Jon Drukman
Sent Mon, Jun 8th 1998, 22:32

Marc 3 Poirier wrote:

[kent williams description of afx production technique snipped]

>    & will it be one bit near as beautiful as any of the songs on "Come To
> Daddy" & give me any of the lovely feelings that that music does?

no, because you are prejudiced against kent cos he's just some guy on
the net that you know and afx is a media-certified beautiful person.

> But I'm guessing that you don't really care for "Come To Daddy" &
> are trying to put it down.  How is it, though, that you (& I've witnessed
> other people think this) think that if you can figure out how to make
> sounds that sound like another musician's sounds that that somehow that
> just totally debunks the music & the musician?

most of the time i agree it's irrelevant but when afx arrived with all
his claims of building his own synths and programming his own
sound-generating software it just set off bullshitometers all over the
world.  now we find that, oh yeah, really that brilliant rhythmic bounce
in bouncing ball is an se-70 preset.  those custom built synths are
606's through an ms-10 filter.  debunking is fine when the source is
claiming all sorts of shit.

> You really should make
> your "Aphex Twin weirdstep" song so that you can realise that making a
> song worth listening to takes a lot more than putting a certain
> combination of sounds together.

having listened to kent's material i think that's a lesson he already
knows quite well.


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