d_jak wrote:
quoted 9 lines i played in a gamelan for 3.5 years while in college and i've always been
> i played in a gamelan for 3.5 years while in college and i've always been
> intruiged by the parallels i saw between gamelan and IDM. (My first
> reaction was something like "wow, proto-techno" :-P ) anyway, i've only
> come across one artist who has attempted to meld IDM and gamelan: Jhno -
> Kwno (came out 97 or 98, i think?). "drum & java" is a great song, but i
> feel a lot more could be done using traditional javanese structures to build
> electronic music. anyone know of any artists who've sampled gamelan music,
> cited it as an influence, etc...? sorry if this has been discussed
> previously.
By coincidence, we've just been working on a remix of a contemporary gamelan
piece, combining some Indonesian sounds with jazz improv and software tweaking,
check it:
http://www.digitalcutuplounge.com/audio_video/Digital_Cutup_Lounge-Mbuh_[Network_Mix].mp3
If that link gets chopped off in this email, there is also a link to the same
file on our music page:
http://www.digitalcutuplounge.com/dclmusic.htm
John
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John von Seggern
DJ/producer
Digital Cutup Lounge
Hong Kong
http://www.digitalcutuplounge.com
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