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Intelligent Dumb Music
Date:
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 01:40:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:
Re: Simon Reynolds rant (Re: (idm) reading list)
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At 11:35 PM 9/8/98 +0100, Giles Ward wrote:
quoted 7 lines The comments about coined terms is right own. My favorite is "Mentasm>> The comments about coined terms is right own. My favorite is "Mentasm >stab." >> On the positive side, I did like his stuff on Gabba, "'ardcore" and >jungle. > >I think with "Mentasm stab", he's referring to the hoover sound used by >Joey Beltram's 'Mentasm'. As nicked by Liam Howlet for 'Charly'.
And scores of others. It was a sound that was hard to avoid for a few months there, when was it, '91? '92? Whatever. As I recall, the "Mentasm stab" was a achieved by using a preset on the Roland Alpha Juno 2 & MKS50, along with the chord memory feature (enter in any 6 random notes for a massive discordant sound). Cheesy bastards. Che rock - rok (v.) - having a conventional and/or boring nature. ex: "Khakis rock". "That Rolling Stones show rocked". syn: suck.