quoted 12 lines On a more technical level, while I've only taken one> On a more technical level, while I've only taken one
> music class, three years ago in college, I feel I
> learned enough to say that the melodies in this EP are
> just stale. He chooses a couple of chords, brings you
> ploddingly from one to the next and then back again,
> all the while another "instrument" is fluttering
> around between the individual notes in the given
> chords. This might be a bad way to describe some of
> the most inspired jazz, but I don't think it misses
> the point on this EP, because the only point to this
> EP seems to be Bogdan sharing his nostalgia for a time
> that is now lost for him. Something to that effect.
This is really interesting -- I was hoping someone would bring this up.
This, to me, is one of the large problems with working with trackers. If
you get a note and use it to create a melody, it's going to be inherently
simple, due to the way trackers pitch-shift. If you make something too
complex or crazy without re-sampling, the samples sound like shit.
It seems like all the trackers that have "made it big" (read: put a cd out
and have a couple fans) are makin' beaty tracks or drum 'n bass. I don't
really hear much variety in terms of melodies, and I can almost always spot
a tracker just by the overall sound of the tracks.
Granted, things like Buzz that allow some sort of synthesis help get around
it, but that's not true tracking (hehe).
So, on one hand, it sounds like bogdan is still doing what he does best.
Unfortunately, it also sounds like he's run out of ideas. c'est la vie.
down with video-game 8bit tracking! :D
cheers,
derek
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