Ya know people call Richard D's work "arhythmic" and "noise" but I think he has an incredibly precise meter. I mean, some of the frequency he uses swing time in with hits on his drums are a little out of peoples scope. In boy girl/song (the popular mix) it must be a good a 16 bars before the sequence repeats. But there is repeatition and consistancy which in my books is rhythm. I think the whole IDM movement is misunderstood as artsy crap when really it is expanding on music just in a way people aren't used to.
People fear change. Look at Kid-A, the track idioteque wouldn't exist without a lot of warp records artists. I'm sure of that. Lots of folks are being exposed to new sounds now because of them.
agreed... radiohead's major influence for both kid a and amnesiac was a band called to rocco rot, another band that uses the oddest time signatures and tones to make their music... i love shit like that... from sonic youth to squarepusher and amon tobin... it's the off-beat time signatures ..i guess arythmic was a bad choice of words... like Meshuggah, it's their time signatures that get me... not 4/4 or even close... i think it's the artist responsiblity to "push the envelope, and watch it bend" so to speak...
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wow you like aphex twin??!!
Date: 2001-12-10 11:02 pm (UTC)Re: wow you like aphex twin??!!
Date: 2001-12-10 11:12 pm (UTC)People fear change. Look at Kid-A, the track idioteque wouldn't exist without a lot of warp records artists. I'm sure of that. Lots of folks are being exposed to new sounds now because of them.
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Re: wow you like aphex twin??!!
Date: 2001-12-11 06:35 am (UTC)