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From:
Christopher Miller
To:
bleep bloop
Date:
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:42:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:
(idm) AFX short attention span theatre.
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Um. Just in case you didn't read the RDJ interview (in _MixMag_ I think), here's his take on our current wonderful topic:
quoted 32 lines FP: How come its that short?> FP: How come its that short? > > RJ: Just the atention span these days has gone real downhill. I think a > record should be that length. Just with Techno it got longer cause people > started putting albums out on 12"s, to make them louder, and everyone got > into that idea, that all technoalbum has got to be two records. I think its > more of a normal thing to do. > > FP: Just not from the CD perspective. > > RJ: Well i never listen to CDs more than half an hour, even if i like them. > I would listen to them in two parts. Never from start to finish. You just > get distracted. > > FP: Why is that so. > > RJ: You'd just get distracted. Half an hour in my home and then someone > phones me up, or knocks on my door. That kind of thing. Even if not i`d > get bored after half an hour cause i want to do something else. And if it's > really good it makes me wanna do my own stuff. > > FP: If you do tracks yourself they might at least take you longer then half > an hour. > > RJ: I reckon so yeah. > > FP: And it will make you listen to it longer. > > RJ: Yeah, but i`m really into the idea of making tracks shorter, and more > complicated. Putting more into it. I like really minimal things as well, > but for me personally, for my own music, thats not what i want to do for the > next forseeable future. So i`m quite happy with that.
I don't know if that helps, or just makes people angrier. I just though the perspective of the person in question [RDJ] was overlooked. laminim. .`--). ? ? -' christopher miller O.' evil@digital.net '