Ugo
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Posted: July 02 2010, 18:18 |
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@ NabLa & jtchivers: of course Jean Michel Jarre [no hyphen, please - he never had one!], Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk were doing more interesting things with sequencers 40 years ago - 40 years ago, sequencers were brand new things, and of course the people you mentioned were very good at being "creative" with sequencers. But this is not the point. The point is that, to me, "interesting" doesn't always equate with "good" - especially in music. JMJ's Oxygene and Equinoxe were absolute masterpieces, but then he got progressively down and down and down and in 2004 he produced "Aero", which was pure dream-house RobertMiles-ish shit. [My Gosh, Robert Miles does it so much better than JMJ, let him do it! ] I can't comment on Tangerine Dream as I'm not familiar with their output, but I'm very much familiar with Kraftwerk's output - I've got their Catalogue box. And, to me, some of the stuff that Kraftwerk did with sequencers 40-odd years ago is terrifyingly boring. L+S never bores me. Yes, it may be predictable, overly computerized and "uninteresting", but to me it's excellent music. And that's what the main point is: the music on L+S is good.
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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