Re: (idm) meat beat - Acid Again

From Nate Harrison
Sent Sun, Nov 1st 1998, 20:03

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Mark Kolmar wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Nate Harrison [Toshok Laboratories] wrote:
> > Am I the only one here who is frankly bored of Actual Sounds + Voices?
> > [....] I don't know I guess I'm just let down, for me it will
> > never compare to the older material.
> 
> It's a well-produced, entertaining, groovy record, but I still keep
> thinking there's not much there we haven't heard from him before.
> Previous records have had more surprises.

Very well put. I feel like I keep hearing the same song over and over,
which shouldn't bother me, cuz half the music I listen to sounds like the
same song, and yet I feel like Jack is capable of so much more...

  "Acid Again" does demonstrate
> there is plenty more to be done with "acid" basslines -- just steer away
> from the standardized 303 sound and/or junk the 4otf beat.

Yeah I guess I'm just tired of the whole acid bassline thing. The track
Original Control, now that acid bassline was plenty wicked...

anyhoo...

Nate


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