are you kidding me?? people have been using real sounds since before synthetic were available, and they continue to now. if you think about it, Im sure you can see how silly this is. be it samples of instruments or samples from romplers, real sounds are all over the place and detroit was not nearly the first to do it, in any context.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: Re: (313) friday records (Abacus) > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Matt MacQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I don't care for it at all, personally. It sounds cheap, thin, > and > >corny to me. I have the utmost respect for Rolando and his past > >productions, as a DJ, a producer, etc... but I found this record > just > >so weak by comparison. I even like the concept... but the > execution > >just didn't cut it IMHO. Your mileage may vary... > > i see it as one of the new UR sounding records that actually seems > to be doing something wildly different from what is going on > elsewhere in techno. while VA and real analogue synths as well as > soft synth recreations of them are still massively popular, it > seems like UR is taking the ROM or sample based recreations of > actual instruments and are making future jazz-funk from it. for > example, the "live" version of hi tech jazz, or the timeline > version of return of the dragons. my mother's guitarra is just > like a latin version of that same style that no one else is > jocking right now. give it time, i bet many copycats will pop up > using "real" sounds from synths. IMO it gives their tunes a really > strange plastic hi-fi vibe. > > tom > > ________________________________________________________________ > andythepooh.com > > > >
