Comments on: Music as Culture, Music as Tribute http://www.deletingmusic.com/2009/06/27/music-as-culture-music-as-tribute/ How the music industry is erasing culture in the digital age Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:07:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Dubber http://www.deletingmusic.com/2009/06/27/music-as-culture-music-as-tribute/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Dubber Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:55:08 +0000 http://deletingmusic.com/2009/06/27/music-as-culture-music-as-tribute/#comment-25 That makes sense. I guess since it's a rhythmic feel I've encountered in MPC-based music, I'd assumed that the MPC had contributed the feel through its quantize parameters, and not because people had avoided them. But it's interesting that the interface lends itself to that approach. I do wonder the extent to which people like Dwele construct rhythms like that because of their experience using and listening to the MPC. Whether that hi-hat pattern, for instance, would be imagined by someone who'd only ever played a drum kit and only ever listened to music that used a drum kit... Of course this is looped, but it feels sequenced as well, if you get what I mean. That makes sense. I guess since it’s a rhythmic feel I’ve encountered in MPC-based music, I’d assumed that the MPC had contributed the feel through its quantize parameters, and not because people had avoided them. But it’s interesting that the interface lends itself to that approach.

I do wonder the extent to which people like Dwele construct rhythms like that because of their experience using and listening to the MPC. Whether that hi-hat pattern, for instance, would be imagined by someone who’d only ever played a drum kit and only ever listened to music that used a drum kit…

Of course this is looped, but it feels sequenced as well, if you get what I mean.

]]> By: mashi http://www.deletingmusic.com/2009/06/27/music-as-culture-music-as-tribute/comment-page-1/#comment-26 mashi Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:32:30 +0000 http://deletingmusic.com/2009/06/27/music-as-culture-music-as-tribute/#comment-26 nah. you could only ever get that swing on an MPC if you turned all the groove templates (quantizes) off. it's the classic dilla style funk of the boom-clack... definitely created by humans albeit expressed thru the sequencing capability and tactile interface of the MPC nah. you could only ever get that swing on an MPC if you turned all the groove templates (quantizes) off. it’s the classic dilla style funk of the boom-clack… definitely created by humans albeit expressed thru the sequencing capability and tactile interface of the MPC

]]> By: Dubber http://www.deletingmusic.com/2009/06/27/music-as-culture-music-as-tribute/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Dubber Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:10:51 +0000 http://deletingmusic.com/2009/06/27/music-as-culture-music-as-tribute/#comment-27 And is it just me, or is his physical beatmaking completely informed by and infused with the MPC 3000's swing feel? I haven't encountered that as strongly anywhere else before. And is it just me, or is his physical beatmaking completely informed by and infused with the MPC 3000’s swing feel? I haven’t encountered that as strongly anywhere else before.

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