On 16/04/01 19:33, Kurt Hoffman said in living color:
quoted 14 lines really? seems like a fair amount of electronic music tracks have> really? seems like a fair amount of electronic music tracks have
> looped basslines, ostinati and/or drones which give the tracks the
> sense of having a "main note" even if it's not a true tonal center.
>
> let's see, what's sitting on my turntable? It's Maurizio's M5. at
> first glance, not tonal, but really it has a prominent tuned drum
> part hitting F and Ab. sounds like it's in F minor. after awhile the
> "we love dub" guitar sample comes in. It's a Db major chord. the rest
> of the piece continues similarly, sounding like an inverted Db major
> chord. so if you were mixing you could treat the beginning as Fm and
> the end as a Db.
>
> Okay, so I was lucky it wasn't an Autechre record or something. but i
> think it's typical enough.
Well, pretty much every Autechre track is in A minor, so... ;)
(Only partly kidding... really, a *whole* lot of them *are* in A minor, if I
remember correctly [or in Aeolian mode, if you wish...])
g.
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