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From:
Adam Piontek
To:
idm-list , EggyToast
Date:
Thu, 06 Jul 2000 08:17:42 -0500
Subject:
Re: [idm] erm, another alternanewsweekly IDM article
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 02:00:42 -0500, EggyToast wrote:
quoted 3 lines I hate to add more non-content, but as an aside, since when was a remix>I hate to add more non-content, but as an aside, since when was a remix >supposed to sound just like the original? i thought the point of a remix >was to mix styles, not just resequence?
most people seem to confuse 'remix' with 'cover' ... the concept of covers has little meaning in most electronic music. most electronic music should be seen as we see paintings - a finished product, made the way it is because the artist intended it that way. most other music is like theatre (which i happen to love, by the way). you have a script (a score, whatever) and different musicians can do their version of it. that's a cover someone correct me if i'm wrong, but that's the way i see it. nothing wrong with either way of doing things, in my opinion, but the idea of a cover is to reproduce something, perhaps putting your spin on it. the idea of a remix is to mix something up and make something new out of it. rather post-modern. neither, i think, is better than the other. just different.
quoted 3 lines i know it's been hashed over before, but all the remixes i've enjoyed don't>i know it's been hashed over before, but all the remixes i've enjoyed don't >really sound much like the originals. sure, you can ID stuff (like the >melodies on funkstorung's 'tried by 12' remix, and a couple focal snippets),
actually, IMO, half of the tried by 12 remxes would actually classify more as covers. i like it, but pretty much all of it just sounds like examples of what the song would sound like if so-and-so had done it. i hope this doesn't start some debate... -adam -- Adam Piontek [http://www.tcinternet.net/users/damek/] ICQ: 3456339 [damek@earthling.net] ... Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. -- Scott Adams --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org