Re: (idm) Re: idm-digest V2 #236

From GamePrg.
Sent Fri, Jul 10th 1998, 20:03

On Friday, 10-Jul-98, Simon Walley wrote [about (idm) Re: idm-digest V2 #236]:
>Drill'n'bass isn't a sustaining genre - it's a novelty IMO. The 
>interesting stuff will happen when the techniques and ethos (basically 
>fuck around with as much of the break and sounds as possible) 
>cross-breeds into other stuff. This is happening already - a good 
>example IMO is that Ae Certificate 18 remix.

In a way that's true. In one of my tracks I have not messed with breaks, but
I've taken several layers of drumsounds that basically sound like nonsense
by themselves, but make up a wicked groove when layered on top of each
other, I dunno if anyone would call it drill'n'bass (I don't).

>Been reading a bit too much _Solaris_?

huh? what's that :D

>The new stuff sounds pretty organic to me - still with that Ae coldness 
>and kind of clinical outlook but with the sounds they're using.

Actually yes, cichlisuite is damn organic. but I meant you know, how they
are usually making things that make "the sounds of machines our parents
used." ;)

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