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Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:00:44 -0500 (CDT)
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Re: (idm) The good ol' days (Polygon Window)
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On 04/26/98 21:54:53 you wrote:
quoted 5 lines My oldest IDM-record is probably Polygon Window (aka Aphex Twin) 'Surfing on>My oldest IDM-record is probably Polygon Window (aka Aphex Twin) 'Surfing on >Sinewaves' >Warp 7, Artificial Intelligence series (that's probably where they got the name >IDM) >It sounds early nineties - well, it IS early nineties.
actually the stuff may have been written in the late 80's, it sounds like stuff from the same era as saw 85-92...
quoted 3 lines It has single-layered> It has single-layered >synths (not those complicated sounds of modern synths, but just one waveform) >and tr-303 or tr-909 drums.
just to be a good music geek, those are mostly tr-606 drums. and there is no tr-303 drum machine, but there is a tb-303 bass synth which is used on the untitled track 7. np: newcleus "jam on it"...speaking of thee good old days, one of the most defining musical moments of my childhood... "a dream is worth a thousand pictures, the mouths of lampreys a thousand more..."