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From:
Chris Sattinger
To:
Chris Fahey , 'IDM'
Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 97 00:18:59 -0600
Subject:
Re: (idm) POP Music
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quoted 2 lines I heard Discotheque.... I'll bet the drum>I heard Discotheque.... I'll bet the drum >track is a loop.
Actually they even bragged that it was real drums. So they obviously don't get it :)
quoted 2 lines In fact, with very few exceptions almost anything you hear on the>In fact, with very few exceptions almost anything you hear on the >radio/mtv is mostly electronic music.
Exactly ! R&B is the ultimate electronic form, the press have quite missed the point that its not the machines that make our music what it is, its the brains.
quoted 7 lines When you hear mariah carey sing, painful as it is, you are actually> >When you hear mariah carey sing, painful as it is, you are actually >hearing a woman's singing voice which has been recorded a thousand >times, sampled into a computer, chopped up into little bits in a digital >editor, cut-n-pasted, tweaked, stretched, pitched, etc. to make what I >would call crap. But the process of making the record is almost >EXCLUSIVELY electronic.
Actually I happen to have read an interview with Mariah Carey's producer. AKG 414, tracked to 8 separate tracks and then comped together (best bits and syllables and words) onto one final track. I have heard the original vocal tracks (before pitch correction) from one major label female artists and it was beyond hideous. The Jayhawks (American records) spent three days tracking drums, editing multiple takes and loops together to get the perfect drum track. Eventually they hired a session drummer to replace the poor guy (I thought bands like that were about camarerie and emotion ?). Synthetics at its finest.
quoted 3 lines 808's and 303's and vocorders and synthesizers were all invented to make>808's and 303's and vocorders and synthesizers were all invented to make >cheesy rawk and pop music, for wedding bands and stuff - they were soon >used by twisted disco and eventually idm types to do other things.
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