Christopher Fahey wrote:
quoted 11 lines The whole point of Squarepusher is, to me, that the drums are not "breaks", but> The whole point of Squarepusher is, to me, that the drums are not "breaks", but
> are rather very complex drum tracks integrated into the composition as musch as
> the melody is. Most of his songs have zero repeated measures in the drum track.
> He's not using breaks, he programming a full 5 minutes worth of drums which
> change all the time because he programmed them with the skill and feel of a
> live drummer. Most electronic musicians create beats in two ways: One is
> sampling. The other is programming, and most artists only program the
> equivalent of four or five seconds of drums for a three minute track. A d&b
> artist might program 10-20 seconds, but still they repeat measures like crazy
> and it *feels* sequenced. You can almost *see* the horizontal bars on their
> little mac screen. With TJ, all bets are off. "How's he do it?" you wonder.
Bullshit.
With cubase, programming 5 minutes of chopped up breaks is easy as
drawing fucking stick figures.
Nico from No-U-Turn showed me how to do it years ago, and the first time
I tried, it sounded EXACTLY like a squarepusher track.
Oh well, maybe I'm blessed?
I doubt it...
(sigh)
peace out,
brock. (who is suffering a hang over from trying to hang with the big
dogs)
np: nothing