On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, wells wrote:
quoted 2 lines What the hell is up with all the lame general MIDI strings/piano? There's> What the hell is up with all the lame general MIDI strings/piano? There's
> like six tracks with it.. I hope it's a fake; who knows..
I don't hear any GM strings(especially)/piano. About half of the 2CD set
is made up of straight acoustic piano and sometimes prepared piano tracks
without any sort of DSP treatment or electronics. That's probably the
most surprising thing about it. Otherwise I have to say that I'm surprised
at the lack of musical evolution for Aphex, especially after the "Come To
Daddy" and "Windowlicker" EPs on which he did some really great
things, imo. The "beat" tracks remind me more of "I Care Because You
Do" or "Hangable Auto Bulb" era AFX rather than making me think he's
exploring some new direction. It sounds like the least distinctive AFX
album so far to me. There's an unusual lack of variety also. He's either
doing the acoustic piano thing or doing the 190BPM cut-up breaks (with
acid lines) thing (like the track you could download from the Warp
site). Not much in between.
Andrei
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