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1994-05-20 16:54Luke YoungbloodI say we take a (private email) vote and find out how many musicians are on the list. It w

From:: Luke Youngblood <LUKEY@wordperfect.com>
To:: <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>, <JAHODGE@vaxsar.vassar.edu>
Date:: Fri, 20 May 1994 10:54:03 -0600
Subject:: Re: Is the end near? -Reply

I say we take a (private email) vote and find out how many musicians are on the list. It would be pretty impressive to see a list of all the musicians that are here and what tracks they've released. I'm a musician, perhaps in a different way than most of you here. Most of my work is remixing. I also have a couple original trance tracks that I've made, but I don't have any tracks released yet. I've done quite a few remixes on my Ensoniq ASR-10, my most recent being a remix of "Dreams" by Quench. Remixing is great when you've got room for 184 seconds of CD-quality stereo samples in memory. In regards to your depression, I get equally depressed when wading through 2 weeks and about 500 messages of people trying to figure out the names of the tracks on SAWII. What I'm getting at is this: What's the point to all of this blabbing on about insignificant things. It seems as if people are more concerned with what color of vinyl, or what the sleeve looks like, or what the track times are, then they are with the music itself. Believe me, America is far behind Europe in just about everything, techno included. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we've been plagued because the popular "alternative" radio station here started in the '80s, and picked up their favorite UK synth pop format, and hasn't changed format since they started. They actually pride themselves on playing what they call "modern" music which was actually dead in the '80s. The interesting side-note to all of this is that just recently, in a local record store, I saw a bulletin saying that they've started giving William Orbit "Water from a Vine Leaf" lots of air time. I even heard it on that station once, and the funny thing is, the radio announcer actually apologized for playing techno. People where I live are extremely biased towards techno, because when they hear techno on the top 40 radio station or whatever, what they're playing is old 1991-style rave-techno complete with sirens, whistles, and non-stop 140bpm cheezy madness.

quoted 1 line Jamie M. Hodge <JAHODGE@vaxsar.vassar.edu> 5/19/94, 10:33pm >>>

>>> Jamie M. Hodge <JAHODGE@vaxsar.vassar.edu> 5/19/94, 10:33pm >>>

I'm hardly asking for your servitude.. However, I get quickly depressed when I read hundreds of messages trying to sort out the FSOL resent releases.. Is america really so far behind? I think I'm heading for Holland when I graduate.. I'd be curious to know what percentage of the members of the list are musicians.. It seems that almost every kid I know east of the Atlantic who likes techno, writes techno.. However, during my time spent in NY, all I seem to meet are fried adolescents who aspire to be promoters when and if they grow up.. Please prove me wrong!

1994-05-20 16:59Luke YoungbloodThat's a pretty interesting technique. My keyboard has the same built in fx processor you'

From:: Luke Youngblood <LUKEY@wordperfect.com>
To:: <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>, <JAHODGE@vaxsar.vassar.edu>
Date:: Fri, 20 May 1994 10:59:20 -0600
Subject:: RE: Is the end near? -Reply

That's a pretty interesting technique. My keyboard has the same built in fx processor you'll find in an Ensoniq DP-4, and I've found that I can get great effects by assigning effect modulators to different controllers, such as the pitch bend or the modulation wheel. A really great acidy effect is to select a phaser+ddl type effect and set the phase rate to modulate using one of the controllers. I can adjust the phase rate anywhere from cycling on every half beat (eigth note), down to cycling every 30 seconds or so. Luke

quoted 1 line Jamie M. Hodge <JAHODGE@vaxsar.vassar.edu> 5/19/94, 11:07pm >>>

>>> Jamie M. Hodge <JAHODGE@vaxsar.vassar.edu> 5/19/94, 11:07pm >>>

Maybe it would be interesting to discuss techniques used by artists in making IDM.. for instance, I noticed the other day that if I wrote an arpeggiated chord into my sequence and used a High Pass filter on the sound, I was able to make it sound like I was very robotically soloing over the music by selective bringing the meat of the sound back in with a controller wheel.. There, that's interesting enough.. ** ******** Anthems: E2 E4, Shh/Peaceful ********** Movies: THX1138, The Yellow Earth ********** Passtime: Drinkin' 40s, Begging for free records!! ******** Game Machine: Vectrex **B.orn U.nder a R.hyming P.lanet

1994-05-20 19:58Lazlo Nibble> I get equally depressed when wading through 2 weeks and about 500 > messages of people t

From:: Lazlo Nibble <lazlo@carina.unm.edu>
To:: Intelligent Dance Music <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>
Date:: Fri, 20 May 1994 13:58:45 -0600 (MDT)
Subject:: Re: Is the end near? -Reply

quoted 4 lines I get equally depressed when wading through 2 weeks and about 500

> I get equally depressed when wading through 2 weeks and about 500 > messages of people trying to figure out the names of the tracks on SAWII. > What I'm getting at is this: What's the point to all of this blabbing on > about insignificant things.

Hint: if people are talking about it, it's probably not insignificant to them. If you don't like it, post something better or move on. -- Lazlo (lazlo@xmission.com) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finger for info on mailing lists (klf/orb/ztt/exotic-vinyl) and discographies

Re: Is the end near? -Reply