i guess i would not be wrong if i added a few words here.
BoC were aiming to capture sounds that are fucked, decayed, falling apart
but in a perfect way. sort of a hi tech lo fi angle ( that i have been aming
to capture for ages, but is so darn difficult. im all copmooter musicz you
see )
regards,
teardropb
quoted 32 lines From: kingmob@nmt.edu
>From: kingmob@nmt.edu
>I think you've got the wrong idea. When they say imperfections I believe
>they mean imperfections in sound that they generated themselves. Like
>distortion or dissonance created to enhance other parts of the track. I
>don't think you understood them.
>
>
>On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Rob Salit wrote:
>
> > These guys completely contradicted themselves in the two interviews that
> > were recently talked about.
> >
> > In the XLR8R interview, Mike says about the forthcoming album, "We want
>to
> > do this one at our own pace and only deliver it when we think we?ve got
> > something that is absolutely perfect, with no flaws."
> >
> > Then in the NME interview he says, "It's okay to be imperfect - in
> > fact the imperfections are where the magic is. To us, perfect music
>sounds
> > sterile and dead. The tunes we write are imperfect, the sounds are
> > imperfect, even the artwork. I can't listen to perfect music, it bores
>me.
> > We actually put a lot of effort into making things rough and difficult
>and
> > noisy, even more so on this than on the last album."
> >
> > When I read things like this it makes me think that their philosophies
>have
> > no credibility. I wish I hadn't read that.
> >
> > TekDz9er
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