BOOM BOOM! And I'm going with the dumb people answer.
k -----Original Message----- From: v12 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:26 PM To: kent williams; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Production "Believe me, I've spent hours and hours making 'sounds never heard before' in my studio, and most of them are awful." ^and if you want to become "one of them/the players" - choose the most awful/ridiculous ones, loop them for about 5 mins or make some random patterns/sequences - & put them out. but before: give it some geeky label and write some sort of a manifesto..ask some trendy journos for a positive review.. that's been done before and unfortunately worked pretty well.. that's what the recent "evolution" is (almost) all about - freaky, glitchy nonsense, farty basslines etc. that's what literally made me give up listening to new records by people i dont know - most the "fresh" stuff gives a headache after 4 bars of that garbage. i want to .believe me,im curious as ever - but my ears beg me to stop. at the same time it's the people who use the same old boxes for 20+ years that sound both fresh and good on many occasions. there are a few "software optimists" who claim that when you "know how" you can get any sound out of a computer..blablabla.. BUT - they either have a deal with a given software manufacturer or belong to the evergrowing group of people who used to produce amazing timbres but ended up releasing pathetic jokes. show me ONE software lopass filter that sounds warm with a narrow Q, without stuff like pSP vintage warmer put on every group channel or so it will never get there imho. or another chance is people are getting increasingly dumb - example: the recent monolake - you can smell 001010101010s from a mile yet 9 out of 10 ppl will say..it sounds like basic channel. which is...hardly sane ;/ enough, i guess. /12
