Yah I remember when the album was expected to come out, and one of the
people who had heard it first described it as having some classical piano on
it, I was really interested in the idea. Because like, a lot of people have
accused him of being someone who randomly twists knobs and makes weird
noises, but wasn't much of a good musician. I think that in a lot of the
piano tracks, he dismantled that theory, and I think that's really cool.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent williams" <kent@avalon.net>
To: "somrux" <bishop@somrux.com>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] DRUkqs bitching
quoted 2 lines On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, somrux wrote:> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, somrux wrote:
> > Or maybe it's that the Aphex "demo sound" is getting old. I mean, come
on.
quoted 1 line It's been done by him before. Maybe it's just a simple issue of> > It's been done by him before. Maybe it's just a simple issue of
delivering
quoted 12 lines the same old sound. Again. Just on another release under a new name...> > 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
quoted 6 lines realize a particular idea.> 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 --
quoted 1 line keep in mind that Bach and Webern both worked with similar sound> keep in mind that Bach and Webern both worked with similar sound
pallettes, and
quoted 1 line there's no mistaking one for the other. Literally thousands of artists> there's no mistaking one for the other. Literally thousands of artists
have
quoted 3 lines made meaningful music with nothing more than a piano.> made meaningful music with nothing more than a piano.
>
> So whatever. I'm sure the haters can find something more edgey and
strange
quoted 7 lines with which to make themselves cool. I never cared much about that shit.> with which to make themselves cool. I never cared much about that shit.
>
>
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