They speak brilliantly about their own work.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
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> "It's about sleight of hand, where you're revealing things and then
> pulling them back. It's that sort of dynamic. But I think that's Hip Hop:
> the whole attitude of wanting to do people's heads in a little bit but also
> give them something that they'll really appreciate comes from that -
> Mantronix to early Bomb Squad --- where there were little tricks in there,
> and you knew the producer had stuck them in there because he knew it would
> do people's heads in. And it'd be like: fucking hell, how did he do that?
> Or, that's a totally mad thing to do with your track. But it didn't suffer
> because it wasn't. . ." Rob: "Wasn't a showcase for those ideas." Sean: "It
> was part of the flow and it worked. That's it really. That's how we've
> started describing it now."
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> "I think a lot of people, when they're constructing complex music, have
> this idea that for something maddeningly complex to change into something
> else that's maddeningly complex you've got to do it suddenly," says Sean.
> "But there are millions of ways you can do it, because you can have your
> entire track changing piece by piece as it rotates, and that's what we're
> into We like things like a puzzle where it's revealing itself and changing.
> And you can almost follow it, because it works the same pace as your brain
> works. The trick is not to get it to work faster or slower, but to get it
> in tune with yourself. And obviously there are some people who work faster
> than that, and they'll hear it and think this is boring, and there are
> people who work slower than that, and they'll think this is too much. For
> us it's the right pace."
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> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> yeah its interesting i would almost say its a return to their classic
>> style of the 'eternally unfolding secret tricks' tracks they used to do
>> where halfway through you finally sort of more or less figured out what
>> they were doing to get whatever effect/sound, and then the second half was
>> just that much more badass
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