And now that I read Mike P's response, I went back and listened to "The
Fear", and hence the occasional clips I thought were intentional...(Not
'intentional' in the 'going out of your way to recreate the clips', but
more in the 'there are clips, and they will stay') Granted, artists are
almost always more critical of their work than their fans are; but,
again, artifacts in the final release don't negatively sway me (and I
suspect others) in any way. Things like bad, subtstantial production
decisions do... If something has a 'vibe' above all else, fuck the
occasional artifacts along the way.
What is ironic as rain on a wedding day about all of this is that one of
the basic components of electronic music can be seen as a side-effect of
clipping -- the square wave. Take a sine wave, over-amplify it, then
reduce it back down to its original amplitude. Extreeeeeeeme clipping,
maaaaaann!
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Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
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