Just thought I should drop in and say some lines about Shirt Trax.
Specifically I just wanted to say that most of this album is pretty tangential
(at best) to IDM. I had to get that out, cos I was very taken aback by what it
was like from what people had said on the list, specifically in that I
expected more than a couple of tracks to have some rhythm, and definitely more
to have tuned elements in them.
Many tracks are _exactly_ the kind of thing I can pull out of a piece of wave
editing software given an hour or two (and I'm not pretending I'm clever for
being able to do that). I was surprised to hear SND needed some custom
software to pull out the sounds they do, as their stuff would be easy to make
with many existing packages.
Anyway, I'm not stumbling into the "anyone can do it, so it sucks" fallacy (I
love my Mark Rothko :-) I only wanted to make sure anyone who was interested
in getting this album knew something more of what they were getting themselves
in for. Specifically, something far more unstable and unapproachable than,
say, Oval or Microstoria.
Michael (All IMO, bla bla..)
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Hear some Jet Jaguar
http://mp3.com/jetjaguar/
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