Don't fall into the trap of criticizing one unique style as 'bad
production.' Commercial music has conditioned many to believe that if what
one hears isn't produced in a particular style it must be
produced incorrectly. Anyone on the list famillar with breakcore should
understand that it isn't clean production that makes a track original.
-Lee Azzarello
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Irene McC wrote:
quoted 33 lines On 13 Jan 00, Michael Upton wrote re: (idm) Modernist freak-out..:> On 13 Jan 00, Michael Upton wrote re: (idm) Modernist freak-out..:
>
> > Everything in it seems to fall slightly out of time, to the point
> > that I'm finding it kind of unbearable.
>
> Interesting point - I haven't got a copy of this, thus can't say either
> way, but up to now I've only had a tape of AmonTobin's Bricolage,
> which sounded just fine 'n dandy in the car.
>
> So I jumped at the recent opportunity of obtaining the album 2nd
> hand on CD - alas! As I had once before written about a Cujo
> track, Amon Tobin seems to be a bit slack when it comes to
> adjusting the various keys his samples are in - everything will be
> sounding great, till suddenly a loop comes in totally out of tune.
> Well, maybe not *totally* but certainly enough so to put my teeth
> on edge and make the hairs stand up on my arms (piloerection?
> Nah, in a BAD way).
>
> I know we thrashed this thread to death a good while ago, with lots
> of people coming out in favour of slap-shod production (sorry if I
> misquote, but it sounded like a hippie attitude to anything goes).
> To my ears, this just isn't pleasant and I know that I will not be
> listening to Bricloage again in a hurry. Pity, because I really love
> Easy Muffin...
>
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