On 22 Sep 2010, at 15:26, kuszyn...@gmail.com wrote: > I agree with you on that - my own perspective focuses more on the > sound design and point of origin of the seed that was planted for > electronic music inside oneself. Not that I have necessarily a deep > amount of successful credibility (I did a self-released 12" and album, > am not terribly devoted to externalizing my recordings),
I personally don't think it matters if you've had a commercial release or not. > but I always > approached electronic music from the synthesizer, the sound making > machine, and not from the record. I suppose I started wanting to make > techno before I heard techno. I have tapes from 1978 that are much the same, there's structure there but it's off-kilter, you can see it change when I got an ST and had lessons :) I've always tried to have a good mix of sound design and structure but mostly it's the music/track that dictates that I find. > Alternatively, my musical interests are > probably at least 50% outside of techno/dance music, and fall into > industrial, noise, ambient, and a lot of what I think of as some of > the most special UK stuff from the 90's like orbital, orb, fsol, > underworld. Dancey music, yes. After these 4, doesn't even make > sense to consider drivel like min_s something real. Nods, we've gone from The Beatles to Lustmord this morning :) m