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From:
James B Gill
To:
Sean Cooper
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Date:
Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:01:53 -0700 (MST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) live or memorex?
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Bro, Bro Bro. What in the hell is this message trying to do? We were almost over this whole Organic riff, and now this. Well, everyone knows how I feel about the Chemical Brothers music. (If you don't, I'm a BIG fan). As far as the Live vs. Prerecorded deal goes, this poses too many possible questions or replies to be a serious appeal. I.E: "Who really performs totally live anymore, anyway? Like a group that isn't electronic might have prerecorded stuff...." Bad example, but Curve was almost totally prerecorded in Phoenix. Electronic music performed live is almost a contradiction in itself. Putting complex structures of sonic textural sound together is amazing; replicating this live is something else, which is why people switch some sounds to dat, in order to put on a show that has sounds that are distinguished on albums/ep's, and to be able to layer sounds, etc.... or, "Well, a band like Orbital uses mainly sequences of PRERECORDED material and splices them together in order to perform a song. Does this mean that it's not live?" See, too tough to draw lines this way, Sean, so just enjoy the sounds and dance your arse off. That's what I do at a live gig. Peace James Benjamin Gill-----jgill@u.arizona.edu**********************************