Re: sounds not sounds, vibes not vibes, ...


stephanie (nnine@yahoo.com)
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:31:40 -0800 (PST)



Yeah, I totally agree. We should give up on this
"language" approach to describing music and from now
on limit posts to mappings of chord progressions,
soundwave graphs to describe synth sounds, and drum
tabs. That's the only way to stay true to the music.

with tounge planted firmly in cheek,
stephanie

--- Todd Nickolas <nickolas_auction@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- june@tough.com wrote:
> > hi there
> > i've got to say that i agree with stephanie and
> > michael. tags and categories are maybe not that
> good
>
> Here's another agreement to that statement. All
> these
> tags and categorical catch phrases just make for
> lazy
> journalism and inevitably 100s or 1000s of shitty
> compilations that are all about jumping on the
> fashionable bandwagon of the moment in order to make
> loads of money, and have nothing to do with quality
> music. Ugh....can you say "trip hop" or "speed
> garage"?
>
>
> > >Is Dego the father of this movement?
> > >A lot of the stuff i see to be in this
> > >genre seems to takes influence from this
> > >guy.
> >
>
> One of my nominations for pioneering this "sound"
> would have to go to Prophets Of Soul. They sound
> like
> a prototype 4 Hero, except they were doing it 20-25
> years (or more) ago. The Ballistic Brothers track
> "I'll Fly Away" is almost entirely sampled from
> POS's
> "Changing Things."
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