They've long been masters of the "hidden gem inside the flaw" method of production. I think it was around the time of EP7 (makes me feel old to think of when that came out) where they mentioned something about making tracks where things revealed themselves almost on their own. Now this is before their "generative music" period which even they said was bullshit mind you. Anywizzle, they said something about how stuff appeared later on further listens they had no idea about. I've been amazed at how true that is because pretty much all their stuff back to Amber has this element where it slowly reveals the deeper facets over months and years of listening. Fascinating stuff.
On Sep 30, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah its interesting i would almost say its a return to their classic style of the 'eternally unfolding secret tricks' tracks they used to do where halfway through you finally sort of more or less figured out what they were doing to get whatever effect/sound, and then the second half was just that much more badass
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