~Maybe it's a valid 'choice' to leave digital artefacts
~scattered at random across a CD, but then it's an equally
~valid choice not
~to bother playing in time or in tune on conventional
~instruments.
Very good point. Com'on IDm artists, stop making noise, and make music.
Being experimental and "cutting edge" doesn't have to mean that it is any
less musical and less needing of quality or talent. Learn to mix, master,
make good music, and explore your media. Bad mixes are just 'corner cuts'
hidden behind silly shields of "well, i just chose to make it sound bad" -
when really it's just laziness and a lack of ability, subconiously, IMO.
It's a mild "fuck you"... to the listeners. Aphex has loads of that oozing,
some of his albums are just SOOO badly mastered... sigh. BUT, he is
talented, so it gets you all pudgy and in a twist, don't it?
=)
BUT if you dig that, fine. Everyone has their standards and their
appreciation of what is art/music, what is quality [recording], talent,
effort, laziness and what is not. If you like that tape his sound, that
record 'pop', or if you like that fat, "sounds like a live concert" sound...
etc. Same debate as Loud versus Clear sound systems... I must admit, there
is also something to be said for raw sounds, its all place, and context- but
never forget your audience [unless you don't want one, eh?]
=)
IMO Good mastering artists, people to learn from: Orbital, Ae, Eat Static,
Speedy J, Orb, Prodigy and many others...
Sebz.
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