Big Moog

[JD]

That's the problem with some of the EM scene. There is an enormous snobbishness about what is and is not EM and despite acres of space dedicated to debate...
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That is, he committed the mortal sin for some EM fans - he used drums.

But thats the reaction you would get too if one act played Berlin School at a Dance festival.

I said EM, not BS. There is a difference.


Apparently.

I know but isnt the Hampshire jam usually based around BS ?

[Seeker_UK]

Not as such. There just seems to be a bias towards them which I guess reflects the organisers preferences.

This years rosta was:

Adrian Beasley - Although a part of Airsculpture his set wasn't BS.
Rainbow Serpent - Definitely not BS
Volt - OK you've got me on that one!
FSP - Ditto.
Fanger and Schonwalder - Sort of BS but not really.

So 2 were, 2 weren't and one was sorta.



The Friday night Jam though was definitely 4 hours of BS....

[JD]

Not as such. There just seems to be a bias towards them which I guess reflects the organisers preferences.

This years rosta was:

Adrian Beasley - Although a part of Airsculpture his set wasn't BS.
Rainbow Serpent - Definitely not BS
Volt - OK you've got me on that one!
FSP - Ditto.
Fanger and Schonwalder - Sort of BS but not really.

So 2 were, 2 weren't and one was sorta.



The Friday night Jam though was definitely 4 hours of BS....

aha well I've never been and presumed it was virtually all BS because i'd read about Airsculpture and Redshift and the like attending various years.etc
You can still kind of see why they might have been miffed with drums though if the audience has a preference of cosmic, ambient or BS. Is it snobbery or just a case of a country band playing to the Hells Angels

[billythefish]

I am a little bewildered that people do not consider the likes of Underworld, Chemical Brothers, or even Paul Van Dyk for that matter - as part of the EM scene.

They owe everything to TD's work with Steinberg. Okay, they may also have a lot to do with clubs, and less to do with step-sequencers, but they are still Electronic Musicians and produce stunning work that pretty much any 'EM' fan could appreciate.

That's the problem with some of the EM scene. There is an enormous snobbishness about what is and is not EM and despite acres of space dedicated to debating that issue, I've still yet to hear a definitive answer on what EM is.

Going back to the snobbism bit, I heard a few negative comments about one particular performer at this year's Hampshire Jam because "it was too much like dance music". That is, he committed the mortal sin for some EM fans - he used drums.

Interesting point... an awful lot of the Dance sub-genres can be purely defined by the type and speed of their beats. There is precious little else to define them by.
What is the typical HJ attendee's attitude towards samplers?

[Seeker_UK]

What is the typical HJ attendee's attitude towards samplers?

Samplers tend not to be a problem.

Large modulars tend to cause a few "music wees".

Laptops are the tools of the devil.

[JD]

What is the typical HJ attendee's attitude towards samplers?

Samplers tend not to be a problem.

Large modulars tend to cause a few "music wees".

Laptops are the tools of the devil.

Wonder why they will accept samplers but not laptops ....especially as the laptop is most likely used as a powerful sampler/sound module anyway ?

[Seeker_UK]

Wonder why they will accept samplers but not laptops ....especially as the laptop is most likely used as a powerful sampler/sound module anyway ?

A laptop can also be used as a hard disk recorder and sequencer.

[billythefish]

Wonder why they will accept samplers but not laptops ....especially as the laptop is most likely used as a powerful sampler/sound module anyway ?

A laptop can also be used as a hard disk recorder and sequencer.

Indeed! The likes of Arturia and Reaktor must be about as good as modular gets unless you're prepared to shell out tens of thousands!
Besides, most hardware synths these days are little more than glorified laptops, just with a different keyboard!

[JD]

Wonder why they will accept samplers but not laptops ....especially as the laptop is most likely used as a powerful sampler/sound module anyway ?

A laptop can also be used as a hard disk recorder and sequencer.

but why is that a problem ? You can get realtime software sequencers and a sampler could play backing audio files, just as a DAT could. A laptop doesnt mean a plays fantastically performance ...th likes of Redshift could always have been using a hidden CDR.

[Seeker_UK]

A laptop doesnt mean a plays fantastically performance ...th likes of Redshift could always have been using a hidden CDR.

Let's not go down this route - you never know who's reading

[JD]

A laptop doesnt mean a plays fantastically performance ...th likes of Redshift could always have been using a hidden CDR.

Let's not go down this route - you never know who's reading

[Laserdisc Dream]

Any new features on the Forum we want too know about it.

[epsilon75]

Just some excellent new releases Peter,get your wallet out