Re: (idm) house discussion

From Nate Harrison
Sent Mon, Sep 20th 1999, 23:46

I think its somewhere in the middle; the difficulty is in making unique,
'weird sounding' and yet accesible music. I guess this is my biggest beef
with the recent Ae output, including the peel seesions last week someone
was kind enough to post. It seems they are too wrapped up in mechanical
processes. Amber and Tri Repatae-period Ae really grab me with the
combination of the sobering melodies and complex (well I guess not to
today's standards) programming. The strings on these records! Sheesh!
Whatever happened to them? LP5 did a great job of giving us a
thorough(SP?)  dose of the abstract combined with great melodic
progressions.

Unfortunatley I haven't lately heard too much 'over-programmed' music with
this human quality to it. 2 fairly recent records that do succeed in this
respect is Colongib's Mapping Music and the new Hravtski. That last track!
whew!

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 xxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx wrote:

> On 09/20/99 16:15:45 you wrote:
> >
> >On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Irene McC wrote:
> >
> >> Recently I find myself drifting more and more towards what might 
> >> be classified as deep house, especially the more melodic end of 
> >> the IDM spectrum rather than power drills and washing mashines.
> >
> >i think tetsu inoue says in the urbansounds interview something about
> >anyone can make weird, fucked-up sounding music, the harder thing to do is
> >make it accessible.
> 
> I'm not really sure Tetsuo had that one nailed down right. After writing
> D&B and techno stuff for years, I did a little expirement last year
> about this time: try and write some pop songs. I got a female 
> vocalist fot the tracks and everything. I actually found it a little
> bit easier to do. Most accessible music relies on very predictable ]
> formulas which are pretty easy to pick up. I think the only real
> challenge,at least for me, was not not to fuck with the sound.
> 
> Rob
> listening to some kick ass Xyn tracks
> 
> component records
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> codec-fragments coming soon!
>