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From:
Drusca
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Date:
Fri, 07 Jul 2000 12:10:37 -0400
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Re: [idm] Kraftwerk goes Calypso/Latin/Mambo/Cuban...
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I dunno, if you have any experience with MIDI sequencing and sampling you can tell right away the music's not being played by live musicians. The stiffness and/or exactness of some of the marimba and vibes parts are what gives away the sequencing the most (I have a feeling he intended some of those parts to sound stiff, a sort of Kraftwerkian, machine-like precision applied to instruments which definitely need to be played by human beings). Listen to the percussion interludes in "Trans Europe Express" and "Tour De France" for obvious sample tweaking. God, there's so much funny shit on this album. Andrei Mxyzptlk wrote:
quoted 8 lines .net wrote:> .net wrote: > > > It\'s hard to believe that the record was created in that way! > > Agreed. Some people were expressing their disappointment that the new > one was "all-acoustic" (as indeed I thought as well). Uwe corrected us, > saying that it was - in fact - all sampled, oversampled, tweaked and > reworked.
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