On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, somrux wrote:
quoted 3 lines Or maybe it's that the Aphex "demo sound" is getting old. I mean, come on.> Or maybe it's that the Aphex "demo sound" is getting old. I mean, come on.
> It's been done by him before. Maybe it's just a simple issue of delivering
> the same old sound. Again. Just on another release under a new name...
I think that he works a lot more carefully and deliberately than you're
giving him credit for. Listen to what he's doing -- there's always
layers of business going on even if on first listen it sounds like a piano
recorded through a boom box.
Again no accounting for taste. I'm not hear to debate you but to me the
CD sounds brilliant. To the extent he's revisiting styles he's worked with
before, so what? I've been around long enough to have been buying his
stuff when it came out since the early 90s, and if anything there's been
a tendency in his work to have a very short attention span, and never fully
realize a particular idea.
There's a real tendency to mistake sound design for musical intent in IDM.
I love a Envelope follower modulating the grain length downsampled to 5
bits as much as the next guy, but I think people forget their musical
history. The instrumentation used for music changes so quickly these days --
keep in mind that Bach and Webern both worked with similar sound pallettes, and
there's no mistaking one for the other. Literally thousands of artists have
made meaningful music with nothing more than a piano.
So whatever. I'm sure the haters can find something more edgey and strange
with which to make themselves cool. I never cared much about that shit.
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