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From:
Guy Elden, Jr.
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Date:
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:46:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:
Re: (idm) pressing question: saw v.1
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quoted 10 lines if i remember correctly that compilation was put together> >if i remember correctly that compilation was put together > >by friends of richard. tracks compiled from the many cassette > >recordings he gave his friends. so if the tracks were mastered > >from cassettes you can't expect great sound. > > that's no excuse! granted there are variations in source material, but > underground resistance and the rest of the submerge crew mastered > everything on cassette too, though any lack of sonic resolution on > either's part is debatable. >
I think the point is that Richard wasn't as serious back in the days when he was just monkeying around, creating weird sounds, building his own synths, and lucid dreaming until 4 in the afternoon. The tracks from that era sound far and away better than any samples, resampled, or filtered fart I've ever heard. I quite like the noise on SAW-I, actually. It's unintentional, and ads to the raw creativity that the music originated from in the first place. -- jr