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Subject: electro
Original Message Date: 18-Nov-99 @ 06:38 PM - electro
it's all in the beat... (with a few cheesy melodies here and there...)
right?
Message 21/26 20-Feb-00 @ 11:02 PM - RE: electro
Ape
Message 23/26 27-Feb-00 @ 01:59 AM - RE: electro
i think the linn drum defined the rough, early janet jackson sound ... like "i'm in control"...
but i really have no fuckin' idea.
check the link. i'd like to think that "reeelyphatty" is electro... erm... give me your opinions pongoid, you're the electro-master around these parts...
Message 24/26 27-Feb-00 @ 12:08 PM - RE: electro
With regards to the Linn Drum, that was an expensive unit that the rich studio guys like Harold Faltermeyer, and his ilk were using. I guess if you want to call those guys the progenitors of electro, them and Kraftwerk, maybe Can, and those types, sure, but guys like Mike and Jaun couldn't afford that stuff. That's why later they'd get 808s and 909s out of pawnshops, and cz101s and dx100s. The Oberheim dmx was another real influential box, and the drumulator, even that little Pearl drumbox, and a 606. They still swear by that shit.
A lot of those sounds in Reelphatty are square wave modulations applied to sines, like a modulated filter in self oscillation. I can get a lot of those types of noises out of my mini (a piece that Detroit couldn't afford at first), but I think you could that out of a dx100 as well if you tried. That makes it slick, and electro'esque, but the groove is an off-kilter thing with really nice triplet rolls, and beautiful syncopation, but lacking the straight ahead drive of true electro. You know, that stuff that makes you want to get up and robo-boogie. Reelphatty is more thinkin music, tough, but not straight enough to keep the floor rockin at a slammin party. That's my thoughts. On that one. My partner's th real electro-master. I am still but a student.
Ape
Message 25/26 29-Feb-00 @ 12:50 AM - RE: electro
honestly i think the electro spirit is essentially a metter of resources...if i could accomplish everything i wanted to with a used ry30, a used oberheim matrix 6r, and some effects ... that would be closer to electro.
i guess its something to try, eh?
btw. thanks for listening.
Message 26/26 29-Feb-00 @ 03:27 PM - RE: electro
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