On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, jonah dempcy wrote:
quoted 2 lines dark downtempo tune in 7/8.> dark downtempo tune in 7/8.
>
I'd say 7/4 but who's counting ...
quoted 1 line some of the harmonic content makes me cringe> some of the harmonic content makes me cringe
too weepy-minor or what? it has a bit of that downwards minor progression
that was in every slowdive song, but I thought he mixed it up enough to
make it work. I was ready to strangle that slowdive guy after listening
to Souvlaki in one sitting.
quoted 3 lines nice rhythmic content also although the sound design could be> nice rhythmic content also although the sound design could be
> better (especially the 80's sounding snare at 2:25, but also the drum sounds
> in general).
Well...don't necesarily agree there about sound design in general -- there's
a lot of nattering noises built up in an interesting sort of soundscape,
and industrial grating noises mixed low. For my taste though, he needs
to either use a much better piano sound, or a much more artificial sound
instead. The pianos sounded best when he processed the crap out of them.
They sounded kind of "sound card-y" when you can hear them clearly.
quoted 3 lines the last piano loop sounds a little off. almost triplets but its a little>
> the last piano loop sounds a little off. almost triplets but its a little
> slow i think?
Again it's not necessarily on rhythmically but I like things to get
occasionally messy, and that business comes in just when I'm tired of all
those hard quantized piano parts.
quoted 3 lines nice reverse cello sound towards the end although the 2nd note> nice reverse cello sound towards the end although the 2nd note
> definitely strikes me as "wrong." (whatever that means)
>
Again I kind of liked that to contrast with the straightness of the
rest of the harmony. But then I always was into the "wrong is right"
aesthetic.
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