Ableton Forum

handojin wrote:greetings my canadian brother

Bienvenu!

handojin wrote: hows montreal btw? always wanted to come chill there... my 2 favourite passions... jazz and good food... i think in a way i belong there.

It's allright - though I spend 5/7ths of my time in Ottawa these days commuting back n' forth from home on weekends. I'll be missing the Jazz festival, Mutek, and everything!

handojin wrote: most of the nu skewl and idm aswell that i dont dig is from producers that are technical wizards with there synths.... but dont know there scales and chords. to me its like an artist trying to draw something really abstract with crazy expensive airbrushes and tools... but at the same time he cant draw an apple with a pencil and paper...

Yeah, I know what you're saying. It's like that dude Yngwie Malmsteen (no idea how to spell his name if I even got it right) to guitarists - he's such a virtuoso that he loses his sense of aesthetic.

me_lindsay wrote:mmmmmm breaks.

Have a love/hate relationship with music that usually gets tagged as being "nu school breaks".

I love it cause at it's best (in my biased opinion) the rhythms are so much more fun to dance,listen and chill to than the standard metronomic 808 kick.

At it's best nu school breaks can be airy, light, & funky and organic.

At it's worst - just too dark, techy and crawling up its own ass.

2c.

Cheers

This echos my sentiments exactly...

but dont know there scales and chords. to me its like an artist trying to
draw something really abstract with crazy expensive airbrushes and tools...
but at the same time he cant draw an apple with a pencil and paper...

It's like that dude Yngwie Malmsteen (no idea how to spell his name if I
even got it right) to guitarists - he's such a virtuoso that he loses his sense
of aesthetic.

Yngwie is a pretty poor guitarist in my book..... He can play fast, but
doesn't really understand what he's playing and ends up playing the same
few scales over and over and over.

Which is like handojin wrote I guess..... He's a master of his "synth", but
has no idea what to play on it.

thats just where i come from though and i know 70% of all the producers
will hate me for saying that...

You should see the big flame war on livepa..... People saying u need to
practice an instrument for 7 years.... vrs those saying get out and play
even if it's garbage.

Know exactly what u mean tho.... I live on jazz fusion, which is all bout
notes, interesting progressions, feelings, tension/resolution, different stuff,
uniqueness...... So 99.99% of 4-on-the-floor bores the shit outta me. Like
1 triad for 10mins is a bit much to bare

-Ben