Correct me if I'm wrong (and I know someone will) but didn't Autechre
make their early stuff with only a drum machine and a sampler?
On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:00:40 -0700 Jon Drukman <jsd@cyborganic.com>
wrote:
quoted 35 lines At 10:30 PM +0200 7/15/96, Danny Wolfers wrote:> At 10:30 PM +0200 7/15/96, Danny Wolfers wrote:
> >>Artists would like to make a living you know
> >> if you didn't realise it
> >>costs rather a lot of cash to set up a decent studio and create music.
> >
> >Bollocks. Do we all want to sound superclean & plastic with hi-crisp ultra
> >Hi fi 16 bits/32DA EMU64 samplers & virtual Nordiclead Digital waveform
> >simulators ?
> >
> >It doesn't cost that much to set up a decent studio to make some good
> >music.
>
> i'd say off the top of my head that you can't get into IDM seriously
> without at least 2 or 3 thousand bucks worth of gear. i doubt that many
> people in their 20's have that much sitting around.
>
> on my first record, i made about $1100. and that was a pretty good seller
> (over 2000 copies).
>
> of course, i've actually sunk something closer to $10000 into my studio.
>
> i think the numbers speak for themselves.
>
> >Records like Muziq's Tango'n'Vectif & Aphex'SAW 85-92 certainly weren't made
> >on expensive state-of-the-art equip!
>
> and they sound like it. (not in a good way, to my snobby ears.)
>
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