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i can't speak for bogdan, but i know from listening to squarepusher and mike paradinas that there is little likelyhood they randomize their patterns. i've been drumming for 8 years and have done plenty of random percussion sequences and they just lack the overall flow and feel of a well programmed beat which both squarepusher and u-ziq provide. at times i am amazed that squarepusher isn't a drummer because he is able to write such coherent and cohesive percussion parts. now if only he could play his parts live like me </boast> ;) -sean

Excerpts from mail: 13-Oct-99 (idm) drum programming by Sean Whalen@nfinity.nfin

quoted 6 lines i can't speak for bogdan, but i know from listening to

> i can't speak for bogdan, but i know from listening to > squarepusher and mike paradinas that there is little likelyhood they > randomize their patterns. i've been drumming for 8 years and have done > plenty of random percussion sequences and they just lack the overall flow > and feel of a well programmed beat which both squarepusher and u-ziq > provide.

FYI... I spoke to Tom Jenkinson around the time that Hard Normal Daddy came out, and he said that he programmed every beat by hand.... and an average track would take him about three weeks. So there. Aaron

quoted 5 lines at times i am amazed that squarepusher isn't a drummer because he is able

>at times i am amazed that squarepusher isn't a drummer because he is able >to write such coherent and cohesive percussion parts. now if only he could >play his parts live like me </boast> ;) > > -sean

Jenkinson played all of the drum parts on _Music Is Rotted One Note_ and perhaps on the EPs that followed it. He may not be Tony Williams or Billy Cobham, but to say that he's not a drummer would be inaccurate. Dave Segal Managing Editor/Alternative Press Reviews/BPM/Reissue Redux/Origins Of Cool Secret Ions on WCSB Thursdays 9-11PM EST www.wcsb.org ----------

quoted 5 lines From: Sean Whalen <swhalen@nfinity.nfinity.com>

>From: Sean Whalen <swhalen@nfinity.nfinity.com> >To: idm@hyperreal.org >Subject: (idm) drum programming >Date: Wed, Oct 13, 1999, 5:44 PM >

quoted 9 lines i can't speak for bogdan, but i know from listening to

>i can't speak for bogdan, but i know from listening to >squarepusher and mike paradinas that there is little likelyhood they >randomize their patterns. i've been drumming for 8 years and have done >plenty of random percussion sequences and they just lack the overall flow >and feel of a well programmed beat which both squarepusher and u-ziq >provide. > > >