Hello,
I have to agree with Kelly on this one. I think that modern music
technology has wrecked music in a way. The continuing goal has been to
make music cheaper and easier to create, but not necessarily to make it
better. It could be said that cheap computers and music software has
been responcible for unleashing an utter titlewave of shite music on the
world.
It has always been that medocrity has dominated the world, as we are by
and large a medocre species. But now we have given people who do not
want to put much effort into making music the ability to create and
release music. I can appreciate the democratizing effect cheap equipment
has had, but do we really need all this bang-wagon music that is being
released now. Even the releases that are being lauded on this list are
not always that great, and I doubt they will still be relevant in 5
years when their idm snob novelty value has worn off.
As of late, I am appreciating Jazz more and more. The harmonic
structures are much more complex than most idm. The spacing and phrasing
can be so far beyond your standard Cubase driven melodic idm track, it
seems to be the direction to move in in the next few years. I never
thought I would see the day where I would consider a book of music
theory to be the single most important piece of musical equipment I own.
Now that I have gone on this tangent, can I get some recommendations?
Here is what I am looking for in a record: I want the phrasing and
notation of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis meets the sounds from Las Vegas
by Berger Ink. A record that goes beyond grabbing a jazz snippet and
looping it, something with heavy programming.
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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Michael Taylor : Chrome3@ix.netcom.com
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