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From:
argos
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Date:
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:14:18 +0100
Subject:
Re: (idm) coldcut
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<3.0.32.19970827191226.0079e360@pop3.demon.co.uk>
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At 11:42 25/08/97 -0700, you wrote:
quoted 4 lines argos writes:>argos writes: >> in other words (just to state the obvious to humourless americans) the >> concepts of 16ths, 32nds, and 'funk' only apply in the cheesy world of midi >> files, elevator muzak and musical car-horns.
quoted 2 lines you are a fool. 16th notes have been around since people started>you are a fool. 16th notes have been around since people started >notating music on paper.
is THAT so, i must have been REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY fucking stupid not to have heard of them then, mustn't i? i think you missed my point, that anybody who makes music with these rigid quantized rules, never broken, or cannot appreciate the funk in a lot of music not normally called 'funky' (LFO 'probe' comes to mind), is pretty much a deadhead who won't go anywhere.
quoted 3 lines there's two things you can achieve with "sloppy" programming:>there's two things you can achieve with "sloppy" programming: >1) you can sound engagingly warm and human >2) you can sound like you don't know how to run your gear
quoted 1 line guess which one i think rdj is?>guess which one i think rdj is?
i won't even bother, because you're just here to take the piss, and act smart cos you've got this big cool studio (that i can replicate on my 400 quid computer) there is more warmth and humanity in any AFX track than all the turd-hop clone zombies in the whole wide world
quoted 3 lines even perfectly quantized midi music is subject to lots of>even perfectly quantized midi music is subject to lots of >imperfection. midi isn't a magic cureall. unfortunately it dates >from the days when computers were a
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