From Michael Upton Sent Fri, Oct 15th 1999, 02:29
From Michael Upton Sent Fri, Oct 15th 1999, 02:29
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:24:59 Aronne J Merrelli wrote: >So, what Monolake stuff features this kind of stuff ? >(i.e., using nature sounds for rhythms) Um, none. To my ears, their music up until their first full length 'Hong Kong', uses analogue-style drum sounds "as the raw materials for rhythmic exercises" (to quote that Urban Sound review). A lot of their tracks use plenty of sampled nature sounds, but I never heard any kind of rhythmic connection (or counterpoint) to the beat of any given track. I still love that era of Monolake stuff. Definitely the richest, most lush sounds I have heard. The inclusion of the massive extant samples of nature just add volumes, rather than detracting as well. I'm still really impressed they didn't process them (so far as I can tell), which encouraged me to really get lost in straight up sounds of the real world. At any rate, there's definitely nothing like that splash rhythm that FSOL used. FWIW, that rhythm is sampled extant from a piece of music. ie. people are playing that rhythm deliberately, it's not just some splashing sounds that FSOL got in time. I don't remember the details of the CD the sample is taken from, but it's been sampled several times by other people - I remember a track on the first Ninja Tunes compilation used it. The source CD is some kind of "world music" thing, with a few tracks of what it calls "water music". The stuff about the FSOL sample is all remembered from a thread on the ambient list probably in 96 (or even 95 - crikey!), so if the archives go that far back you can find out the exact details. :) Michael np. Koln Kompakt Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com