From: Neil Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [313] Nighttime World Volume 2
> This is an amazing release. Beautiful, soulful techno, mixing classical
> Detroit techno with what sounds like live instruments
Yeah? you think i think it sounds like bad synth imitations of live
instruments (particularly (i think) track 3 - "hi-tech muzak" anyone?)
Yeah but its always pretty obvious that they're synthesised versions of live
instruments which is why I made the "with what sounds like live instruments"
statement.
I agree they sound synthesised but I like that synthetic quality. It sounds
like he's using old Roland (D-50) and Yamaha (DX/SY series) sounds to try
and sound like live instruments. Which, if you were genuinely trying to make
synthesiser music sound 'live' nowadays, is almost laughable, as the
modern/current synths can do it so much better.
Its the old techno trick of using outdated but perfectly good equipment to
do the job.
I'm typing this and I bet Rob's actually got a studio full of new Korg gear
:)
Anyway I dig the sounds and I also dig the way they're used in the tracks
but as always YMMV :)
> yet it all has that
> sequenced attention to detail that's on every Rob Hood release.
Fair enough, there is nowt wrong with the sequencing, but those noises!
What I liked about it was that rather than the analogue pulses and 'Moveable
Parts' sounds he regularly uses, this featured live sounding instruments but
still with that tightness that the 'Moveable Parts' stuff has.
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