i enjoyed your properly obsessive review, thanks
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
"Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:09 AM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 49 lines Not to obsess (any more than is seemly on the IDM list) but the thing that
> Not to obsess (any more than is seemly on the IDM list) but the thing that
> distinguishes his sound between now and the late 90s/early 2000s phase is
> his obsessive commitment to physical synths and hardware sequencing. For a
> lot of artists, the hardware fetish is just that -- they make music you
> could bang out with the factory instruments in Ableton Live, and there's
> nothing about its hardware origins that's distinctive.
>
> This T69 collapse is the opposite of that. It's pretty difficult to do
> this on hardware sequencer, and the things that define sound are unique --
> like the old digital drum machine individual sounds run through oddball
> vintage gates and compressors. The main kick sound on T69 collapse is an
> 80s ROM sample (I think from RX5) that's gated and compressed so it's super
> short and punchy. It's the only way it can be programmed so intricately
> and still cut through the mix.
>
> Then in the reprise section (where the 4 bar chord loop comes back) the
> kick switches -- it sounds more like a Roland TR707 kick, but filtered to
> knock down some of it's harsh attack.
>
> This is the work of a person who dreams of drum machines when he sleeps.
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:58 AM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> My impression of "T69 Collapse" on a couple of listens -- I'm always
>> drawn back to how Aphex Twin is essentially making folk music. The main
>> theme of the track is a simple 4 bar loop of major and minor chords. Then
>> there's an interlude with microtonal synths (i.e. a bit sour & weird) and a
>> reprise of the main chord progression. Throughout there's a lot of
>> obsessively programmed drums.
>>
>> With the exception of a bit of sort-of digital vocoder-ish sound, he's
>> still obsessed with using hardware. I definitely hear a lot of Yamaha RX5,
>> though I'm sure he sequenced it with his Cirklons. His obsession with
>> never repeating a drum pattern is nothing short of autistic.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:45 AM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If you have epilepsy, don't watch, you can stream it on Bleep.com or
>>> Spotify: https://aphextwin.lnk.to/T69-Collapse
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/SqayDnQ2wmw
>>>
>>> Can't believe I'm first to post this here.
>>>
>>