On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Arthur B. Purvis wrote:
quoted 6 lines Funny that, I thought 68 million Shades was boring throwaway jungle> Funny that, I thought 68 million Shades was boring throwaway jungle
> crap, whilst Oval's 94diskont was one of the 2 or 3 best discs of
> last year.
> Why, you may ask? 68 million... is just one big cliche. Yeah, they
> throw some extra instrumentation on. Still plays the same goddamn
> stuff, regardless of the instrument.
68M Shades doesn't sound like any other drum&bass I own (and I own quite
a bit). It doesn't even sound like their first or third albums. I'm not
sure why you would think it's cliched, unless you're treating all
drum&bass the same without really listening to it.
quoted 4 lines diskont94, or at least the 1st track (24 minutes long) is the> diskont94, or at least the 1st track (24 minutes long) is the
> prettiest song I've ever heard made from cd skips and machine
> fuckups. It's also awesome, making use of a microtonal scale and
> cd clicks for a beat.
This techniques been around a long time - a friend of mine, Todd
Pluharski, was doing it about 10 years ago. He made the most amazing
track using Dolly Parton's version of "White Christmas". It kept
skipping on the "I'm dreeemmmminngminginginginging". He did some more
tracks using equally bad source material, and sent a copy to Options
Magazine. They reviewed it and took him to task for his simple synth
tones, but praised him for his innovative use of sampling. What made
this really hilarious was that the source material had no synths, and he
used no sampler.
If you're really into this, take the CDs that you can't give away, one of
those silvery metal pens, and some laquer thinner. If you don't like
what you've done, clean the ink off with the thinner. You should try out
different CD players - some work better than others. You'll quickly find
you can do as good or better than Opal.
Che