Ah-ha... different strokes :-)
Yes indeed; I've got that Mike Ink, but on CD so I know what you mean by
those crackles and pops that only live on vinyl. I still can't listen to
remastered versions of Led Zeppelin without desperately missing those
scratches and crackles from my old albums! There - my secret's out!
I currently listen to a lot of music that I consider aurally transparent; allow
me to contextualise this: as a photographer, I spend much time at the
computer processing images in Photoshop, which needs my concentration so
I don't want to have to pay major attention to arousing / emotive / exciting
music.
Here's a quote from Brian Eno that I love:
"Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. Ambient
music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention
without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is
interesting." ~ Brian Eno
Now you may think The Field falls into that category? So was I hoping too,
but it just bores me sh*tless within a few minutes and I have to skip off to
something else.
To give an example - what I'm really enjoying in this category (very ambient,
almost droney and highly repetitive) is Austere - Solyaris
Label: Hypnos
Catalog#: hyp2753
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 10 Feb 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient
Tracklisting:
1 Seraphim (15:20)
2 Striae (25:30)
3 Launch Sequence (0:40)
4 Nictitate (38:02)
(I've just taken that off Discogs) - very long loopy tracks that don't demand
conscious listening, but don't in any way impinge on the job at hand.
I
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On 20 Jul 2009 at 4:03, Mantrakid wrote:
quoted 10 lines Late night. :)> Late night. :)
>
> Listening to Leave It & digging it really. Did you ever hear those old
> Mike Ink Studio 1 tracks? Those tracks blew my mind in what i thought
> techno was, and then built up a pretty hefty tolerance to repetition.
> It/This is like the kind of shit you want on vinyl so that the pops &
> crackles become their own unique instrument...
>
> So far, my lack of morals seem to have been professionally thwarted at
> every eager but half-assed attempt.
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