Repetitive Music

padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
muser said:
villalobos do similar tricks it sounds contrived
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this I must disagree with pretty strenuously, tho again ymmv

he's the only big name from the mnml/microhouse era I think is worth anything

and I don't think it is tricks. it's just a different style from Omar-S, closer to Reich/Riley etc process music rather than disco, soul etc.

truly psychedelic in a way very little dance music attains. "Acid Tracks" does. there are other examples.
 
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muser

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padraig (u.s.) said:
he's the only big name from the mnml/microhouse era I think is worth anything
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I agree with that totally and I remember liking some of his stuff, maybe i just got left with that feeling as the last thing i heard was him mixing relatively late in his career and it was terrible, when its bad it sounds like cheap tricks, turning the knob on a filter exactly when everyone expects it etc.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
muser said:
Omar s is brilliant at this, there is one track that I can't be bothered to find out which one right now (theres a few though) where he changes up the hihats and it's virtuosic in its subtlety.
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I like that interview when he was saying he plays a record to people and they say "Is that all the record do" and he says "Yeah bitch, that's all the record do, your lazy ass gotta do something with it" - though maybe it doesn't really if you listen properly.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
It's funny, when I make a track I go out of my way to inject at least some variety into it, because I hate the idea of making a track that's boring, and the line between "trance-inducing motorik genius" and "boring" can be very fine. But sometimes I think I over-egg the pudding and end up putting in gratuitous elements that can detract from the simplicity.

All that said, I think I've struck more or less the right balance on this tune - would be interested in anyone's comments.

 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
muser said:
Ok here's one but not sure if it's exactly the one i was thinking of, he's a master of the top end percussion.

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This is ace. And also exactly what I'm talking about in that half of it (the beat) is utterly repetitive but the melody isn't so it's kinda half and half.
 
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