Guybrush
Dittohead
Here's Macho's I'm a Man in all its 17 minute glory (I found it on Bumrocks, so credit goes to him):
Macho - I'm a Man (12'' Version)
Macho - I'm a Man (12'' Version)
Here's Macho's I'm a Man in all its 17 minute glory (I found it on Bumrocks, so credit goes to him):
Macho - I'm a Man (12'' Version)
At the end of the day the best bass plugin I've heard (trilogy) doesn't sound as deep and full as a moog or SE1 so I'd rather have the hardware to take care of basses. hardware integrates really easily with DAWs so it's not like you can't have both.
Yeah, I agree. There seems to be an assumption that just because somebody was successful in the past and has aged the person must be a reactionary old fart, to me that's just lazy rhetoric (smacking of rockism: the young are "in the know" [since when?] and the oldsters are trapped in nostalgialand [what's the average age of the Kompakt posse again?]) -- anybody who use age as a bat in discussions is threading on thin ice anyway (0-18 = unspoiled but to young to know better, 30+ = bitter and longing for days gone by -- yawn). I don't think Eno gives a toss about the advent of modern technology making his compositions seem more effortless than they actually were.This thread went all weird, most responses are just pissing on Eno. Wonder what the thread would've been like if swears had just written "I read that..." and put forward the argument without mentioning who'd said it.
Brian Eno is totally and uttterly full of shit here... it seems that he is just getting pissy becuase once upon a time people would hear his music and think "wow, that sounds totally futuristic and otherworldly", and he could sit there all smug about how he is so intelectually superior to everyone else on the planet. Though really it was just the exclusivity he garnered from using equipment with high barriers of entry (both intelectual and monetary) that made him sound special.
Yeah, I agree. There seems to be an assumption that just because somebody was successful in the past
He is talking shit tho and should be pulled up, nothing to do with success - however you measure it...
His basic argument was: anyone with a modicum of taste can knock up a decent sounding loop in Reason/Fruity Loops or whatever, and then build up a lacklustre track around it. He compared it to how something like perfume is marketed now: you find the demographic, consider the pricing, draw up an image, then the LAST thing you actually decide is what it smells like. You're building a track up around a weak idea, a mere shell of a song. Whereas, if you where stuck in front of a say...a piano, you would have to work out the fundamentals of a tune before you even got to the rest of it. The work would have to be strong enough on it's own merits before you got into all the production, effects, various sonic tarting-up procedures.
He is talking shit tho and should be pulled up, nothing to do with success - however you measure it...
He compared it to how something like perfume is marketed now: you find the demographic, consider the pricing, draw up an image, then the LAST thing you actually decide is what it smells like. You're building a track up around a weak idea, a mere shell of a song. Whereas, if you where stuck in front of a say...a piano, you would have to work out the fundamentals of a tune before you even got to the rest of it. The work would have to be strong enough on it's own merits before you got into all the production, effects, various sonic tarting-up procedures.
What I'm taking from his comments is that people find it far too easy to slip into a readymade genre or sound. You can get all the presets and packs and effects to conform to whatever style you're associating yourself with.
Nobody's arguing to pass a law in parliment to outlaw fruityloops, just saying that maybe people should consider why they're making music and what good it is, before turning on their gear.
The real problem with plugs is medium size hobbyist studios with thirty high end synth plugs, endless possibilities, and not a good idea in sight.
Anyway. irrespective of what you think about his comments on software, whats with all the hating on Eno?
Do half of you know what he has had a hand in over the last 30 years? Remain in Light anyone?!
It's no different to the classic band set up, just that now everyone can get access to kit they wouldn't have been able to afford and I'm all for that.