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Re: loopers radio station.



O H   M Y   G O D!

Is it that people can't take critisism or that the wording of my initial
was a tad crass (which offended everyones sensitive musicians ears)?
The band I used to play with recieved pages and pages of critisism both
constructive and ferociously personal (my favorite was from one review
in the NME, which stated that "...the Cranes sound like a baby locked in
a toolbox"!!!) I know It can hurt, but you learn to live with it and
whats more you can start to analyse what you do from a different
perspective. You don't get anything by from fan-mail, other that a
oversized ego.

Would liberal usage of the acronym IMHO, have protected my burning ass?

Look here, I apologise right here and now for using the word "crap". As
an englishman, we don't consider that word to be too strong, maybe the
differences between American and English are highlighted here. Or maybe
I was just having a bad day!
But there have been some interesting issues popping up amongst the
flames but Im afraid that I agree with...

> > the rebuttals to Mark's flame have taken up more bandwidth than the 
>original flame itself - to say nothing of >personal bandwidth used in 
>even contemplating such uninformed and uncontrolled foolishness.

...and
 
> When some says our loops are shite... we're ON TOPIC.

I thought I was on topic, and was expecting discussion to follow ABOUT
THE MUSIC on the radio site...
 
>This warrants further discussion.

quite!

>I wanna know what criterea people are judging with.

Very good point! Maybe my biggest mistake was not critisising the music
at all, but not being detailed/specific enough in my critisism. I was
not intending on giving a complete review of each and every track
myself, but to start a discussion between list members on their music.

>I'm also interested in possibly hearing examples of Mark's techniques...

I can do that!
(I'll probably regret this but hey... fire away!!!)
Ive put some mp3s on a webpage at http://www.8day.com/redweb/ for this
very purpose,

One small comment, as stated on the page I have been working for a while
on a very big project that does have some segments that I could put at
this URL, however I havent had time or the inclination to do this as
this project is not even close to completion.

What is there, however, is a series of songs I did under the name
"eardrum" (there has been a different band with the same name pop up in
the last 2 years...thats NOT me) but they are a few years old now...
techniques involved, well most of it is looped/sampled from scratch, not
much record sampling going on, a bit tho, its recorded direct to a
minidisc, with some live guitar/bass/synth playing on top as it went to
tape, sound quality is variable, Im happy with it, but could probably do
with some proffesional mastering/eqing/compressing, I dont have much of
a home studio, but when things appear dirty and or distorted, that is
probably intentional, I like my "electronic" music to still have a
"live" or gritty ...er dare I say "Rock and Roll" quality to it? 

and... NAH! wait a minute, Im getting all nervous now, and hence making
excuses, go ahead...listen and critisize away to your hearts content, I
can take it

...I think!!!

humbly yours

Mark Red


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