RE: On being complete nerds

[Tom Attix <toma@microsoft.com>]

You know, if you put a little piece of green tape over the red part of your
geek-o-meter, everything will be just fine!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Flint [SMTP:kflint@annihilist.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 1997 11:39 AM
> To:   Tom Attix
> Subject:      On being complete nerds
> 
> once again, Looper's Delight is pushing the geek-o-meter way into the 
>red.
> Now I certainly deserve some of the blame, but even I reach my limits 
>with
> endless babbling about this and that feature about whatever the latest
> gadget is. Now I know you're all capable of much more enlightened
> conversation, so let's have it!
> 
> 1. How about this: What are the approaches you take improvisationally /
> compositionally in creating and building a loop? Is there a structure to
> it
> all? And leave the gear specifics out!
> 
> 
> 2. Top 10 lists are lame, I know. But I am really fascinated by the way
> this list brings together people with quite different musical backgrounds
> and styles. We're using similar techniques to create totally different
> kinds of music. Rather than babbling about which delay pedal we use, I'd
> like to hear more about the diversity of styles and interests that we are
> all pursuing. I think there is a lot to learn from people doing things
> that
> are different from what we do, yet somehow still similar; it opens up new
> ideas to bring back to our own music. One cheap and easy way to get a
> picture of musical interests is current listening habits, so toss in a
> list
> of the cds/tapes/tracks, whatever that you're listening to! For me, the
> stuff I'm listening to is always the stuff I've recently bought, because
> my
> attention span is only a few seconds long and I get bored with stuff very
> fast. A few things will hang around longer, that usually means I really
> like it. Anyway, in no order, here's some interesting music I've listened
> to lately, with no commentary since I don't have that much time:
> 
> Dr. Octagon  - Dr. Octagonecologyst
> Paul D. Miller  - Viral Sonata (that's the guy who's aka dj spooky doing
> an
> ambient album)
> Meat Beat Manifesto  - subliminal sandwich
> dj krush - Meiso
> Grooverider Presents: The Prototype Years
> Photek - Modus Operandi
> Metalheadz - Platinum Breakz
> Squarepusher - hard normal daddy
> dj dara - rinsimus maximus
> Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
> voivod - nothing face
> Miles Davis - 4+More (miles, george coleman, ron carter, herbie hancock,
> tony williams, tony was only 18, and it just rips....)
> suicidal tendancies - the art of rebellion   (good punk metal nostalgia
> kick...)
> Tom Rupolo  -  Loop 7   (tom is just a guy on the list who sent me a 
>tape,
> nice loungy trip-hop something, dripping with fender rhodes...)
> 
> anyway, comment freely....
> 
> 
> kim
> 
> 
> 
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