I'm not sure I'd call it piss-weak. Not sure if I like it yet, but I enjoy
the melodic content. It sounds like he's using the Eventide effects rack as
a synthesizer again -- that buzzy foreground sound, which comes from
playing bass through it.
Closest contemporary comparison is the PC Music stuff, which is manically
shiny in a similar way.
You can't fault him for trying to do something that sounds different.
As regards the Amen break, I did a track years ago that involved loading
the Amen break as a sample, and then cutting and arranging it so every bar
was different, across 5 minutes. As you can imagine this amounted to about
8 hours of painstaking zoomed-in editing.
Ever since doing that, I'm allergic to the Amen. I don't mind if people use
it in their tracks, but if I load it a sampler and start messing with it, I
start feeling sad and wishing it would go away.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:21 AM CRAIG SIMPSON <craignorms@hotmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 27 lines This is pis* weak. Hes making music that sounds like its all been sampled
> This is pis* weak. Hes making music that sounds like its all been sampled
> from an arcade or funfair. Hes given up on the amen break. It's a tragedy.
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> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:06:04 -0700
> From: gwrenchxx@sbcglobal.net
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Jlin album out.
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> I've had to review a 12" or two for the radio station where I DJ, and
> I've never heard anything that appealed to me in the least.
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> kent williams wrote:
> > I'm surprised footwork/juke hasn't been a bigger thing on the IDM
> > list. This new record on Planet Mu is revelatory.
> >
> > http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ356
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