On 01/10/01 13:53, Aaron D Meyers said in living color:
quoted 13 lines Alright. I like Confield a lot, but to say it is very> Alright. I like Confield a lot, but to say it is very
> rich "harmonically" I think is a bit misleading and I have a hunch that
> even on whatever level it could be considered "harmonically rich", it
> is not the way in which the original poster was seeking. I would
> personally consider it more texturally rich. The original poster
> (sorry I deleted the original email) was looking for something outside
> the loopiness of most IDM. While I agree that there is a lot of
> developement going on in the Confield tracks, its still very loopy
> (evin if the loops are kinda constantly mutating). And in terms of
> developing melodics (which is what I thought was what the original
> poster was looking for), I don't think the basslines and occasional
> melodies in Confield really jump too far from where they start at the
> beginning of most tracks.
Indeed, Confield does not really fit the criteria I identified in my
original message.
quoted 1 line All that aside, I like Confield a lot and you should get it anyway.> All that aside, I like Confield a lot and you should get it anyway.
I like it a lot too anyway... :)
quoted 8 lines As for IDM sort of stuff that is melodic and dynamic and all that...> As for IDM sort of stuff that is melodic and dynamic and all that...
> nothing really jumps out at me right off. Squarepusher's Hard Normal
> Daddy is very musical and the songs really go places. This might not
> be what you are looking for but I have this Orchester 33 1/3 CD (a
> Christian Fennesz project) that has a lot of IDM elements fused with a
> whole bunch of live jazz musicians and I think there are some great
> songs on there. Umm... sorry.. I'm at work and I don't have my stuff
> in front of me so that's all I've got for now.
Hard Normal Daddy would fit the bill, even though it can be a bit borderline
in some cases.
The Orchester 33 1/3 thing sounds interesting... I'll have to check it out.
g.
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