RE: N'Sync * Craft vs. Art

From: Law, Alistair (DEM, North Ryde) (Alistair.Law@dem.csiro.au)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 02:05:46 CEST

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    ->them could out do NSYNC on SACD any day! There is a difference
    ->between the performers and the engineers, though with the music we're
    ->listening too that difference is bleeding across. Another example
    ->are the beat trickery of Timbaland, Missy E, etc. with the same old
    ->tired lyrics over the top--check the latest Black Thought single for
    ->his opinion.

    This is an interesting point. I find some of what we are listening to now is
    no different *musically* to Acid Jazz c1995 (or from the 70s for that
    matter). The difference is in the production/engineering which admittedly
    leads to some new grooves (eg drum'n'bass) but a lot of the nu-jazz stuff is
    technology driven. Not that I'm complaining - I like it. But there's only so
    much you can do with harmony/melody/groove before it stops being music this
    list would be interested in.

    Al.



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