(idm) More Lex

From solenoid
Sent Mon, Jan 11th 1999, 21:04

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Andrew Hime wrote:

> > In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going 
> > straight at your head like a bullet for '99!
> 
> Better take me out now, then. Can you SoCal guys get over yourselves now?

Yes, there is not much more I'd think ought be posted until the record
comes out and the remaining 95% of the list members can hear Alex's music.

However most listees can share in the mp3's at the peachfuzz.net site.

  I checked them out and listenned to them on some nice studio monitors... 
the mp3 format definitely translated well for his music!  The music sounds
to me like Autechre'ish "drum" rolls, well particularly rolls of "clicks" 
on one mp3 that change speed as though a sample were being portamento'ed
or pitch-bent.  There is a lot of digital FM and filter sweeps (or strange
eq sweeps) and it sounds like it is coming out of one box (like an e4 or
akai) for sure.  The periods of time that went by between references to
the beat/clock are particularly Autechre-ish.  Very carefully programmed
and vaguely melodic.  If you play the mp3's back in different orders,
jukebox-style, you can find ways that they blend into each other pretty
well (they are really short and don't change throughout).
 
That makes me think that you could make a bunch of short noises as mp3's
and have them heard in random order like the minidisc idea....  for that
matter, since minidisc is mpeg2 level standarad I believe, maybe someone
could convince autechre that it is true to thier artistic goal to release
these as mp3's to be heard on random-order play...

I'm noticing that west coast techno and idm-ish stuff (I'm thinking of
some reflectiv label stuff like space-time-continuum, and old stuff, too)
has a certain common atmosphere to it... or is that just a sign of
amateurishness?  Any opinions here?  Lance, Andrew D,? cripes you guys
have heard it all and then some. 



solenoid