Industry Beat
Jan. 29th, 2004 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nfotxnThe best house music these days seems to be played on guitars. Deconstruction is definitely the next logical progression as far as house music is concerned. I mean I love Groove Armada, Daft Punk et al along the same lines of seemless space pod styled music coming from the future to rock your local dancefloor. But everyone and their Mom has quantized† audio these days. So you can take the spastic beats and melodic slathers of Joe Rockband's Dance Song and align them to a tempo with quartz crystal accuracy. You don't have to be a crazed perfectionist obsessing over every single note inflection at the studio unless you want to.
Maybe my explaination is too far reaching. But I really like to co-relate popular stylistic trends with the underlying technology all the time. I mean look at the vocoder craze of the late 90s. After Cher had "Believe" produced things just exploded and Steinberg produced Orange Vocoder so that anybody with a PC could emulate hardware that at one time only rich and eccentric German techno artists could care to afford.
So bring on the snotty dance punks. They're gonna sound great... at least on recordings.
† It's a poor use of the term because it really doesn't use any quantum mechanics at all. But the musical instrument industry is really big on hyperbole. A marriage between it and the computer industry was destined to happen.
Maybe my explaination is too far reaching. But I really like to co-relate popular stylistic trends with the underlying technology all the time. I mean look at the vocoder craze of the late 90s. After Cher had "Believe" produced things just exploded and Steinberg produced Orange Vocoder so that anybody with a PC could emulate hardware that at one time only rich and eccentric German techno artists could care to afford.
So bring on the snotty dance punks. They're gonna sound great... at least on recordings.
† It's a poor use of the term because it really doesn't use any quantum mechanics at all. But the musical instrument industry is really big on hyperbole. A marriage between it and the computer industry was destined to happen.
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Date: 2004-01-29 10:09 am (UTC)"She totally just ripped off what Laurie Anderson has been doing for years."
Thought I'd share. cheers...
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Date: 2004-01-29 11:49 am (UTC)Brodie, it's not about the vocoder per se. It's about pitch correction software. See also: the heinous usage thereof on the last Pet Shop Boys LP.
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Date: 2004-01-29 12:05 pm (UTC)Luckily the newer auto-tuning pluggins are really subtle actually. I mean not as subtle as the human voice but good enough for densely mixed pop music. PSB haven't made a good record in ages, they're a lost cause at this point.
Cher was using a Vocoder on top of an Antares ATR-1, I think. The ATR-1 actually works really well from my limited experience. I mean in live performances when you can't do retakes. Recording the output is a tad perverted though, IMHO.
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Date: 2004-02-02 12:30 pm (UTC)Hmm.... I loved "Miracles"
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Date: 2004-01-29 11:47 am (UTC)But I think it can still be good (http://penthousebeats.com/bcbud/)... [check out Harvest Moon]
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Date: 2004-01-29 12:29 pm (UTC)Wow....so cool that you noticed.
and with all do respect to the previous post...?
Um ....BCBUD?
You Bite your tongue up there.
--but It really REALLLLY DOES NOT!
That's like saying "Of course I can fly the space shuttle, how different can it be from the Mac simulator?"
House music is SO not Disco w/the Bass turned up.
by that rationale' Rap is House music, and Japanese Pipe music or
Reggea...
it's JUST not.
There are way too many genres and sub genres within it to make that
statement.
That's usually a comment made by larger introverted men who don't dance, mix or know anything about House Music.
If you were familiar w/or
Created music- (& not just program the ring tones on the old cell phones there..but actually forged it your own damn self.
you might be in a position to classify, judge or truly enjoy "house" music.
There's a HUGE array of different sounds and
--Stick to the woods buddy....
(although you did say you liked what you've heard...And yah-ARE kinda cute- so maybe I'll come up and school yah some.)
*wink*
Getting Back to the subject at hand
Brody--
The souped up guitar stuff outta the Rhine Land (much I've found from Cologne and Frankfurt)--is the back bone and framework that utilizes house into the German "Neu House" Sound that has literally taken over my life this year.
I actually got turn tables because I want to learn how to ride and drive that beat.
anyway...just wanted to give you a thumbs up.
Righto then-
carry on!
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Date: 2004-01-30 01:55 am (UTC)Sidenote: Have you been on AIM lately? 'Cause i haven't seen you on in awhile.