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Hary Walsh
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Thu, 12 Feb 98 11:18 GMT
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(idm) Re: Ae
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quoted 1 line "HEATsink" == HEATsink <c3@heatsink.demon.co.uk> writes:>>>>> "HEATsink" == HEATsink <c3@heatsink.demon.co.uk> writes:
HEATsink> Amen. Garbage hardly leaves the decks these days, and HEATsink> Cichlisuite is glued to my CD player. I've never known HEATsink> any other electronic artists with such a talent for HEATsink> making involving tracks. The subtlety is mind-boggling. I was trying to explain to a friend exactly why I so impassioned by Autechre. I was listening to the Gescom Keynell, I think the second track. I asked her to pick out all the different things going on in the tune. At each point she'd say maybe three or four, and I'd point out some extra stuff going on that is very subtle. This went on for a couple of tracks, both of us just listening, disecting what they put together so smoothly. Then she started to notice how different rythms slowly morph and melt their way around the track, how two totally disjoint sounds slowly start to clash and eventually combine to form even more beautiful sounds and rythms. After about 15 minutes I told her to stop analysing it, that Ae don't do all this neat stuff just because they can, that the whole piece is sculpted and shaped from start to finish in this way, with sounds blending and melding, and rythms overlapping and clashing. All six of the keynells were listended to. She's not a notal convert yet, but I think she understands my obsession a bit better, and recognises their genious more. I go to see Autechre this Friday in Dublin for the first time ever. I haven't been this excited since I stopped believeing in Santa Claus! -hjw