You all secretly like it ;)
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Esa Ruoho <esaruoho@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 175 lines I'll say this though, I listened to the track three times in the last week
> 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:
>
>> Yer havin a laugh mate. Its absolute muck. But because he's Squarepusher
>> he can get away with it.
>>
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>> 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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