Music for CD - S/D

Autechre and the like?

Nurse With Wound - one track, 60 minutes long. That would make an odd record.

Pan Sonic

Brothers In Arms!

i mean there are people now making music digitally who really fucking know what they are doing. you know? cuz the difference between people who don't know how to get the most out of digital sound or don't care and those who do is vast.

whereas, you could throw something on tape, press a record using that tape, and it would probably sound fine even if you were a complete idiot.

The Raunchy Young Lepers explained.

so, you know, it makes sense that people making electronic music would be at the vanguard of cd sound. and i think electronic artists are the ones getting the most warmth and depth out of their equipment. warmth and depth being vinyl fetishist watchwords. there are always gonna be people who think that brassy and shiny sounds best of course.(brassy and shiny being epithets that vinyl fetishists hurl at digital fools) but i think the people who are taking the time to do it well are doing really exciting things with the medium. that "five year" thing at the top was kinda arbitrary of me. semi-recent past is more like it.

Three aspects of the CD format suggest ways in which music can be designed to sound best on CD.

The first is the ability to record pieces of a continuous length which exceeds the capacity of an LP side --if the nature of the music is enhanced significantly by its freedom from interruption, it's better on CD (examples from my collection which come to mind are Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians", and Brian Eno' s "Thursday Afternoon").

The second is the CD's ability to handle sounds at the very quietest ends of the dynamic spectrum without the intervening surface noise that result from listening to it on vinyl (I enjoy Brian Eno's "Ambient 4" more on CD than LP for this reason).

The third, far less common, is by utilizing features available only to CD playback, such as programming, repeat, or shuffle play (eg: Doctor Nerve's "Beta14 OK", which in addition to the longer pieces provides 42 miniature pieces of a few seconds each which are designed to be programmed in or shuffled among the others in any order).

Destroy: The Fall's 'Hex Enduction Hour'

The cover art *must* be proper size, and whole album is summed up by the fact that 'Winter [Hostel-Maxi]' fades out on Side 1 and 'Winter Pt. 2' fades in on Side 2 - It's truly an album that you work at to appreciate.

Destroy: The Soft Machine's 'Third'

The goodness of having one song per side.

I think it's fairly simple.

S: Music that was recorded digitally, ie: newer things.
D: Music that wasn't recorded digitally, ie: older things.