Various Things...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
As was noted in the previous thread, Grindhouse has moved outside our little circle. Case in point: Radio Slave’s “Grindhouse Tool” (which, although it doesn’t have enough ’verb on the foot, follows the tenets of the faith rather closely). This is obviously minimalist Grindhouse. I’ve been listening to the track for like five and a half minutes now and it doesn’t appear to be anything but a drum beat and some verby sounds, which I personally think takes the concept a little far, but what the fuck do I know?
I can’t find a link to the Dubfire remix that is causing all the hullabaloo, so please do provide it if you have knowledge.
In other news, we’re probably going to postpone Kombinat’s release a little bit, as I optimistically forgot Adam was going to Japan in two weeks. While we could probably release before he went, he wouldn’t be here if something should go awry, and you really don’t want me poking around in the code trying to fix things. I can code in the same way that I can cook. It gets the job done but it isn’t pretty and it doesn’t taste too good.
What we do have coming in the next couple few days will amuse some and amaze others, and make about six people really happy. More on that maybe later today.
Next, our new commissioned banner is running on KvR starting today. It gives me a case of the giggles every time I see it, but some people don’t get it. You be the judge.
And finally, for some reason I got on an Old School (har har har) IDM kick. I actually had to re-buy several records that I had lost when a CD wallet got misplaced/stolen, and these included the Sgt. Pepper’s of IDM, Tri Repetae. I haven’t listened to this album in several years, and frankly I didn’t like it that much when it came out. For some reason, it is really appealing to me now. I think, in my advanced age, I’m able to appreciate the subtlety of the album. Dunno. But IDM is a genre that moves rather slowly, so it doesn’t sound dated at all, compared to other forms of purely electronic music. Or maybe they made it so advanced that it is actually current now?
Who knows? Anyhow, I was going to post a thread-starter on IDM production techniques, but the exact wording hasn’t come to me. Perhaps later today.
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i dig the banner. just saw it at KVR. i don't know what there is to 'get' though.
did you get the double disc of tri-repatae? the one w/garbage etc? i'm an autechre junky. tri-repatae is great. some timeless tracks there for sure... but of course i'd say that.
i still see jordan rudess. stop making me look at jordan rudess.
You should post that ad somewhere on your site. I hunted for it on KVR for a few minutes but gave up.
"I hunted for it on KVR for a few minutes but gave up."
it's the banner so you just refresh (reload) the page a couple times and it will eventually pop up.
tri repetae is pretty bad-ass. if you like that, I'd hunt down both of the john peel sessions they did. the first one is especially great.
my personal favorite autechre is the overlooked ep7. there's some really terrific stuff on there from both sides of autechre.
I think the reason tri repetae still sounds fresh is that all of the careful attention is placed in sequencing and sample selection, instead of praying that the effects or algorithmic sequencing will do all the work. it's certainly not a shiny album, but man it holds up well. same goes for a lot of the boc, middle-era aphex twin, and squarepusher stuff.
regarding Dubfire's "Grindhouse Tool" remix:
it seems to be based on the Danton Eeprom Vocal Version, was presented at the Winter Music Conference 08, but is not yet released or linkable. The Danton Eeprom version is included in the "Get the curse" podcast at 7 minutes:
http://tribalelectrodance.blogspot.com/2008/03/tune-of-wmc-2008.html
Tri Repetae is indeed a fine one. thelizard's right about ep7, too...and I'd add LP5 to that as well. Sometimes I'm in the mood for Confield, but haven't been for a while. One of the reasons TR doesn't date too much for me is that the sounds don't tend to map much to identifiable instruments or settings, or so it seems to me.
I had to refresh the KVR page at least 15 times before i saw the banner...i sure hope you're not paying much for that!
Hahaha, hope AD isn't paying for that banner per impression :-)
IDM???You can always just hold down one key on Absynth and run a pingy poinky sounding loop with no kick through Dr Device and your set!
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