What kind of equipment do IDM artists use? - Page 2

halcyon days · 04-25-2004, 01:30 PM

I wouldn't say that I hate it, so much. I've just resigned myself to the way that it works in alot of cases. Novelty, at this stage in the game, is prized and fleeting. That very same thing applies to IDM. I'm not bitter.... nnnnnno. I'm just lost and bored.

The One · 04-25-2004, 03:17 PM

What exactly do synthesizers do?

Equinox · 04-25-2004, 03:30 PM

imitate actual acoustic instruments. But with these, you can manipulate sounds by using oscillators, filters, and other various effect techniques.

The One · 04-25-2004, 04:51 PM

What is the best synth to get? Also, are you able to do (fast) drum loops with these, sound effects, and speed beats up?

Equinox · 04-25-2004, 05:29 PM

i have already mentioned a few things here within the thread, and also, if you are looking for specifics, there is a forum labeled as is further down on the forums page, perhaps posting it there would help even further

jez- · 04-25-2004, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by halcyon days

Get the akai mpc-1000 and start tapping out your primo-esque beats with a kanye tidda feel. BITE their style hard. Then buy a $100.00 Sony microcassette recorder and start collecting sounds... I recommend 'the subway', 'the overheard conversation', 'the ambient cafeteria', and 'nature sounds in the park'. Now take out a bank loan and buy a laptop. Make sure its grossly over-powered and fancy. Dont buy ANY software, pirate everything. Then, go into the kitchen and take a 1 3/4 wrench and bang it against a saucepan. Record the sound, then chop quanta in some of that pirated software you have. Flange it, time-stretch, and drop a primo-beat in behind it. Include the ambient sounds that you collected earlier... they give it a really raw 'analog' artsy feel. Then take RDJ's sample from Come to Daddy, run it through an echo chamber, and play it in reverse -- at various intervals throughout the track. This will eventually taunt psychotic richard into fashioning a diss-track against you (IDMBeef = sales). Now... go to your local art college and sign-up some eager weirdo to design your album cover. Make sure its bizarre, and make sure you caution him to go easy on the womb imagery (otherwise they'll make it about womb imagery -- artfags got a one track mind). Have him scribble some nonsensical rambling 'art theory' stuff in eye-strainingly small typeface on the front. This adds allure and makes your project mysterious. Finally, you yourself write out extensive liner notes explaining how your music is not 'trip-hop', nor is it really 'idm' -- and then include a polemic about how IDM was always a stillborn genre.

The way of the experts, i'm sure.

halcyon days · 04-25-2004, 07:42 PM

It worked for Portishead.

drsquid · 04-25-2004, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by halcyon days

. I'm not bitter.... nnnnnno. I'm just lost and bored.

...yah... and I'm not a white boy from Suburbia, U.S.A. ...nnnnnnno! Deep down, in my soul of souls, my heart is as black as anybody's...

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halcyon days · 04-26-2004, 09:35 AM

There's a madness to the method.

Evilmatik · 04-26-2004, 10:16 AM

you forgot to mention cutting every freaking samples to the vinyl first and resample them again

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It worked for Portishead.