On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Gil Yaker wrote:
quoted 14 lines Interesting debate between a friend of mine and my brother.> Interesting debate between a friend of mine and my brother.
>
> My friend is a synth purist. His studio is all analog gear except for 1 digi
> synth and 1 digi drum machine. His music sound like classic tangerine dream
> quite often. He does the german trance thing too.
>
> OTOH
> My brother has two main instruments...both are samplers. Most of the time all
> of his source material is jazz / early electronic experimental / psychadelic
> rock / funk records. He mangles all the sounds and recontenxtualizes them to
> staggering degrees, but for the most part, he stays away from synths.
>
> Now...whose music is more organic???
>
I've heard some of your brother's tracks and they are indeed very good, and
while I don't know this other bloke, I see no reason why one method is superior
to another. And all music is a perfectly synthetic creation; no reason to
try and judge authenticity just on the production technique.
quoted 3 lines Ideas?> Ideas?
> (and no, I've never heard oval. is there a domestic (us) release or some
> mp3s?)
Oval has records out domestically, I believe on Thrill Jockey out of Chicago.
A web search will turn up where you can get it...