hrrrmmm...
i think everybody here has expressed their opinion on this, saying why they like
it,
why not, but i don't think anyone really got to the heart of the matter which
is: "why
kid606's music bothers those that it does".
i heard the hype about this character, so i bought the "kid606 and friends". the
first
track kinda sets the stage for a really campy, tongue in cheek d&b romp,
needless to
say it wasn't even done by him (remixed my hrvatsky). the rest of the trax take
a
total different approach. i got totally thrown off. the things on the album are
not
ground breaking. all of the sounds on there will be common place to anybody that
has
been doing music on a mac for the past five years. distortion, time stretching,
granulation ect. what isn't common place is the fact that it's actually on a
record -
a whole album full of it, full of common place studio fiddeling. it's a little
annoying actually. i guess for those that don't have studios, or haven't ever
played
around with this stuff it will seem pretty cool ,and it is, but it's no ground
breaking achievement. the technology is totally apparent (instead of
transparent). on
the soccer girl ep, it sounds like he wrote stuff using some sort of "virtual
analogue" synth (reaktor or nordlead) and simply degraded it. 16 bit 11k, like 3
different tracks. it's really simple stuff. anybody with a studio can do it, but
the
point nobody else is the way he (and his team of cohorts) are.
also they have an attitude. have you seen the website? demo policy... "our
policy is
"don't contact us we'll contact you" concerning any demo material, but yes, we
do like
hearing new stuff, especially if it doesn't suck.... and our general lack of
interest
in music not by us, our friends or people who are too famous or dead to be our
friends
any emails received concerning demos will not be responded to..." it goes on and
on.
it's really easy to dislike a group of individuals that handle themselves that
way,
but perhaps that's what they want.
but listen, i'm not trying to trash them here (and no i'm not trying to be
politically
correct either). they actually go on to say send it, and they'll get back to you
if
they like it. also they say their policy is the same as most labels, they are
just
honest about it. totally true.
the point is this, him and his friends are making music they enjoy, and doing it
for
themselvs, i believe, with a good hearty laugh out loud. they have fun and
release it
with out worrying what the masses at large will think about it. i have total
respect
for that. really. i wish more people believed in themselves as much as this
bunch. i
know this post was all about hype, but isn't that exactly what the initial
poster did
by posting?
another 2 cents for the archives...
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