imho
i think that its a nice mix of bleep with 4 step contemporary jazz?
great drumming, not my choice of other sounds though. his palette has never
been my cup of tea....
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 197 lines yes i also like the melody to the cure's "it's friday im in love"
> yes i also like the melody to the cure's "it's friday im in love"
> very catchy
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GpBiTjmIpQ
> squarepusher/zmachiines - dissolver
>
>
> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Charles Byers-Brown <
> c.byersbrown@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You all secretly like it ;)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Esa Ruoho <esaruoho@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --Forwarded Message Attachment--
>>>> 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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