On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Andrei wrote:
quoted 12 lines On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, jacob z. wrote:> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, jacob z. wrote:
>
> > one of the things i like about it is the way
> > it plays around with musical conventions - taking the production language
> > of house and the lo-fi textures of scratchy jazz records and making
> > something, to my ears, novel.
>
> I don't have the cd anymore so this is from memory, but I remember
> listening to the album and noticing there wasn't anything jazz-like about
> it. Obviously it's not constructed like jazz, but harmonically and
> especially melodically it wasn't "jazzy". The thought struck me that the
> whole sampling of jazz records angle was more just marketing.
i think that sampling on this record wasn't done the way most people think
of sampling - it's doesn't sound like he was taking loops or phrases or
beats, more like a horn or string sounds stretched waaaaaay out to begome
his pads, or a little record pop becoming his rhythm... this way he gets
somewhat jazzy textures without using much of what harmonically or
melodically makes music jazz. there isn't much in the way of melody on
the record anyway...
i guess this is part of why i like the record so much - i love it when
people sample something and use it in a completely different
context. taking just the barest minimum of a sound and using your digital
tools to scuplt it into something miles away from its source... it's
postmodern and it's funky!
j
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