I'll say this though, I listened to the track three times in the last week
or so, and today, for no reason whatsoever, the melody got stuck in my hed.
i didn't like it, but what can i do.
On 26 March 2015 at 23:55, CRAIG SIMPSON <craignorms@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 160 lines Yer havin a laugh mate. Its absolute muck. But because he's Squarepusher
> Yer havin a laugh mate. Its absolute muck. But because he's Squarepusher
> he can get away with it.
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:33:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: New Squarepusher track
> From: madvlad00@gmail.com
> To: laurent.knauth@gmail.com
> CC: clinta@gmail.com; eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com; chaircrusher@gmail.com;
> idm@hyperreal.org
>
>
> What's wrong with you all? This track is proper ace.
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Laurent Knauth <laurent.knauth@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Back in the Protracker days, i once recorded the Amiga channels onto
> cassette and resampled the track this way.
>
> Quite blurry, RAM-hog (4 bars) and slightly unsync'ed.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> heh in the .mod days ppl would use mod2wav to make patterns from their
> .mod files into wav files, the idea being that since you only had 4 tracks
> if you could write a 4 track beat and mix it down to 1 wav file you could
> free up 3 channels
> </mod-nerd>
>
>
> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Eric Fairbanks <
> eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh man, those stutter-rolls. That's friggin' impressive. They sound so
> smooth, and the volume envelopes are perfect.
>
> Must've taken a hellovalot of time. :P
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:05 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> This track was made entirely in Sound Forge
> http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/SoFarSoSo/02%20Morton%27s%20Shadow.mp3
>
> This was from this album
> http://music.cornwarning.com/2009/01/31/so-far-so-so-retrospective-1995-2005/
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:02 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Before Acid Pro, I did a whole bunch of tracks in Sound Forge. I'd figure
> out the number of samples in a 4-beat measures, create that much silence,
> and turn on the selection grid in Sound Forge so I could see where the
> beats were, and paste/mix samples in. Once I had some basic patterns and
> sounds, I'd make copies and fuck them up, and string them out and paste-mix
> other loops into the master mix.
>
> I'm really comfortable working directly with waveforms. It's a lot easier
> these days with other tools, but I liked that method better than the other
> options of the time, which were trackers.
>
> Though I did do trackers to generate loops that I'd arrange in Acid.
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:16 PM Eric Fairbanks <eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Ah man, Acid Pro. That's exactly what I was picturing. I've heard of
> musicians who work like that, but it sounds like a nightmare. Might as well
> compose music in a video editor at that point IMO.
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:09 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I did it kind of as a dare for myself. I was working in Acid Pro, and I
> cut the break into chunks, and then looped a bar or two bars, and
> copy/paste bits into the loop until it feels full. Then move on to the
> next measure.
>
> It wasn't hard, but it made me hate those particular sounds by the time I
> was done.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:44 PM Eric Fairbanks <eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Kent, that's nuts. I can't imagine working with sampled breaks in an audio
> editor. (well, I suppose I can, but it sounds like a serious headache) My
> recent jam has been writing LUA scripts that generate/transform patterns in
> Renoise that re-arrange cut up breakbeats. Editing and manipulating breaks
> and sequences in a tracker at 180+ BPM 8/16LPB is work enough. Cutting up
> breaks in an audio editor represents a level of long-term focus and
> dedication that I'm unfamiliar with.
>
> Totally hypothetical, but if Jenkinson handed me a spec for some
> beatmangling software, I'd happily implement it in return for some spastic
> Squarepusher-brand breakcore. >.>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:24 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I'd call it piss-weak. Not sure if I like it yet, but I
> enjoy the melodic content. It sounds like he's using the Eventide effects
> rack as a synthesizer again -- that buzzy foreground sound, which comes
> from playing bass through it.
>
> Closest contemporary comparison is the PC Music stuff, which is manically
> shiny in a similar way.
>
> You can't fault him for trying to do something that sounds different.
>
> As regards the Amen break, I did a track years ago that involved loading
> the Amen break as a sample, and then cutting and arranging it so every bar
> was different, across 5 minutes. As you can imagine this amounted to about
> 8 hours of painstaking zoomed-in editing.
>
> Ever since doing that, I'm allergic to the Amen. I don't mind if people
> use it in their tracks, but if I load it a sampler and start messing with
> it, I start feeling sad and wishing it would go away.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:21 AM CRAIG SIMPSON <craignorms@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> This is pis* weak. Hes making music that sounds like its all been sampled
> from an arcade or funfair. Hes given up on the amen break. It's a tragedy.
>
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:06:04 -0700
> From: gwrenchxx@sbcglobal.net
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Jlin album out.
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:58:47 -0700
> From: gwrenchxx@sbcglobal.net
> To: 313@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: Jlin album out.
>
> I've had to review a 12" or two for the radio station where I DJ, and
> I've never heard anything that appealed to me in the least.
>
> kent williams wrote:
> > I'm surprised footwork/juke hasn't been a bigger thing on the IDM
> > list. This new record on Planet Mu is revelatory.
> >
> > http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ356
>
>
>
>
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