I think saying "i don't care for dsp wankery" is pretty
easy to agree with. (I mean, wankery is bad, right?)
But agreeing on what music actually constitutes
wankery i don't think is universal.
If people are talking about, say, kid606 "the action packed mentalist"
then i definitely agree its pretty wanky. But if they're talking
about richard devine "asect dsect" or xanopticon "liminal space",
then i think all of the dsp is integral to what they're doing,
and its pretty sonically interesting to me. I'm not going to argue
absolutes though - there's alot of personal taste going into
any of these judgements.
- cutups
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Luis-Manuel Garcia" <lgarcia@uchicago.edu>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] ...another mechanical piece of noise
quoted 26 lines On Jan 24, 2005, at 10:52 PM, William Samuels wrote:
>
> On Jan 24, 2005, at 10:52 PM, William Samuels wrote:
>
>> I have a pretty good amount of noisy/experimental
>> stuff in my music collection, and I don't care for the
>> "DSP wankery". I've heard it plenty and the novelty
>> wore off a long time ago.
>>
>> I think some people use it to hide the fact that their
>> tune is really boring in the first place.
>>
>> And why does most of this clattery dsp idm lack bass?
>> Are most of these people lacking studio monitors, and
>> mixing it down on crap headphones?
>
> 1. Is novelty the only thing valuable about IDM, then?
> 2. Is bass essential to IDM?
>
> Luis
>
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