Adam Piontek wrote:
quoted 6 lines What happened to melody? Why has everyone jumped on this steel> >What happened to melody? Why has everyone jumped on this steel
> >factory-sounding motif?
>
> Who are you listening to? If anything, it seems to me that IDM is
> stricken with a dated "melody" virus. Why did everyone get so bored
> with drill-n-bass and braindancy rhythms so quick?
I think in part this has to do with the fact that due to the recent advances in music
software and the ease which they have brought to "music making", a lot of (very
young) people who have little or no background in music are making music and
releasing it prematurely. And plus if you don't have much of an understanding of
music you'll probably relate to something like "Amber" more than "EP7" and will find
it easier to emulate that kind of style.
quoted 10 lines I fell in with this stuff because of that music (1997-1998-ish), and suddenly it's> I fell in with this stuff because of that music (1997-1998-ish), and suddenly it's
> "old," and the people who say they don't like drill-n-bass are
> telling me that the epitome of IDM is nearly 10-year-old music from
> the early days of Warp. Not to use Warp as the measuring stick of
> IDM, of course, but it seems to me at times that many people wish for
> the "old days of Warp," while I find a solid evolution in the Warp
> sound and love pretty much everything they release these days. I
> think a lot of the newer small labels peddling medlodies are just
> filling a void created when Warp moved on and many of their listeners
> didn't.
Well put.
People have said:
quoted 1 line i don't like a lot of the "dsp for the sake of dsp"...> i don't like a lot of the "dsp for the sake of dsp"...
I'm just curious, what are some examples of stuff that's just "dsp for the sake of
dsp" ?
I suppose you could make that argument about Kid606's stuff, but what else ?
Andrei
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