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From:
Jeff Davis
To:
Clint Anderson
Cc:
kent williams , do id
Date:
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:29:22 -0500
Subject:
Re: Plaid Polymer
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only if you can beatmatch "Los" , can you earn the right to call them cliche thanks, Jeffrey J Davis jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com www.jeffreyjdavis.com 218.833.2847 On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:19 PM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 20 lines going to listen a couple more times but> > going to listen a couple more times but > i dunno, i find a lot of the tracks painfully cliched and predictable, which has always been my issue with plaid > 'generic safe music with pseudo-idm percussion' > > Clint Anderson > Systems Engineer > "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:00 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Those guys really have a way of being evocatively melodic in a way no one else seems to even try. Aphex Twin does a good job on a few tracks per release, but can't keep it up for 13 tracks the way Plaid can. >> >> Dancers is perhaps the best exemplar -- unexpected, but emotionally exciting chord change after chord change. >> >> I splurged and got the 24-bit WAV files and I think that's how they should be heard -- punchy and dynamic and spacious. Haven't blind-tested them against 16-bit wav (or MP3) but if you're going to shell out for the album, I have to think it's worth the splurge. >> >> I wonder why Warp releases 24-bit WAV files but only 16-bit FLAC files. FLAC encodes 24-bits just fine; in fact the first thing I do when i download them is convert them to 24-bit FLAC.