Hey, I liked this( post see below for some ). I think that it is just a
matter of time, really. There is certainly room for evolution - were are
only twenty years into the mainstream use of electronic instruments, it will
take time for the combination of the right people with the right background &
desire to make it happen. It could be you or me ( If I ever get off my ass
and write music instead of reading & writing e-mail ). I think you are
absolutely write about Miles having the right idea about the groove. But two
things come to mind : 1. it took jazz 70 years to get to that point, and ten
years after that, it was gone - Miles regressed into pop formula jazz (
although tutu was great ) and left the psychedelic crazy fusion of the
mid-seventies. During Miles's temporary retirement, most fusion degraded
itself into musical improv masturbation 2. You cannot deny the power of
repetition. Variation is good, but you if you stray too far from the primal
beat, you loose part of the groove and the music becomes too detached from
our physical nature. Its not that I don't like abstract music, but the best
music is a balance between mental/abstract and primal/physical.
PT23
Jamie Hodge wrote :
These artists are exceptional in the sense that they're making the
progression that so many techno artists seem unwilling to make: they use
the electronic, but they break away from alot of the structural constraints
of typical sequencing, recapturing that groove that Miles had that WASN'T
based on loops but rather on improv.. I think my other aversion to alot of
recent releases is that they are full of nice sounds, but the melodies are
in really uninspiring keys and the melodies seem stuck in circa '81.. I
think the fundamental point is that we have opened the eyes of the masses
to new options in the way of sound and the failure of the majors to co-opt
a new form of music distribution, which is truly underground.. However, we
must remind ourselves, that the musical advances of Mahivishnu John
McGlaughlin and Miles Davis during the seventies were too significant to
ignore.. We as artists should take this new perspective we have and commit
to the age old tradition of reevaluating old concepts, updating and
tranforming that which we feel is exceptional.. Our music is only new in
the sense that it's purely electronic.. Most all of the music ideas we
mistakingly take for our own have been in place for years..