Re: label descripts

randy (lilbro@groundzero.net)
Fri, 06 Jun 1997 10:37:13 -0700


aargh! wrote:

> >Acid Jazz

......Deletia

> hmmmm .... acoustic Goa, anyone?

none for me thanks.

> >I think thats all for now. Are these consistent with the rest of
> >peoples defs?
>
> not to pick on ya, guy, but ... the minute you define it like this, it's
> not what you've defined it as. That's the beauty of the fluid nature of
> music and that's what makes it interesting .... also the minute you define
> it you've marked it as a cliche. I wonder if that's what makes people
> stagnate ...

You need to put an order to the sounds you collect, once you start
trying to mix them together. A track has a feeling, a pace, and a style
of beat. In order to create a mood you need to group together like
sounds, or use different sounds to play off of one another. Your mind
automatically reads these things from everything it hears, and if you
can put a label to a type of sound, it is an easier way to keep your
tunes in order. I was just wondering if my labels were consistent with
others. I realize everyones labels are different, but in order to
discuss things in a forum of different labels, common terms should be
used. Labels help.

So yeah, I like instrumental Hip Hop. If acoustic Goa is what you think
of when I say that, you probably are on a completely different musical
planet than I am. Besides, isn't acoustic Goa a label??

Beats is Beats, but you cant just call everything Beats unless you are
trying to communicate that everything sounds the same to you. Cliche is
when something is overused, not when something is defined, and I think
that in order to get beyond something, it needs to be defined, so you
can then redefine, and create new things beyond current definitions. I
hope you get what I'm saying. Perhaps we wouldn't need labels if i
could just attach audio samples of everything I wanted to talk about to
this list, but for now we have to use words, and the more words to
describe music with, the better.

Who is planning on going to 2slo tonight with Q-Burns and Oversoul 7?
It'd be cool to meet some of you guys.

randy