funny, it took me a really long time to get
into parallel processes, but now i totally
dig it. everyone seems to agree that the
rhythm programming is great, but the melodies
don't bother me at all, really.
speaking of worminterface, just picked up
colony laspberry by baraki. what a disc!
worminterface really seem to be putting lots
of good stuff out. can't wait for the new
plod. still no release date on the site,
though.
alan!
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Ed Hall wrote:
quoted 25 lines What you said! The first Jake Mandell I heard ("Parallel Processes") was> What you said! The first Jake Mandell I heard ("Parallel Processes") was
> pure sonic adrenaline the first two times I listened to it. It's fortunate
> he didn't have much recorded at that time, or I would have gone out and
> bought all of it. By the fourth listen the effect of his rhythm programming
> wore off, and the amateurism of his trite melodies and aimless harmonic
> progressions started to grate on me--BAD. I just can't listen to Parallel
> Processes any more, and though the Placekick EP shows some improvement (and
> the same rhythmic inventiveness as before), it's already starting to wear
> thin.
>
> Simple, repetitive melodies and harmonies can be extremely effective
> (e.g. Ae's Amber). Perhaps Jake is just trying too hard to be "musical."
> His sonic talents appear to lie outside of traditional melodic/harmonic
> axes, in any case. There is much interesting music to be made that
> rejects these elements in any case...
>
> -Ed
>
>
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