their songs/tracks sound almost identical to each other, but you don't mind (and why don't you mind?)

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was reading tim f's post on the dixon thread explaining why he didn't mind maurice fulton using a lot of same tricks over & over (heh) again, and then i listened to a jona remix from last year (sierra sam's 'perfume' to be exact) that i hadn't heard yet, and blimey if it didn't sound a fair bit like all the other jona tracks i've heard. heck, the beat is almost identical to the one in "someone". however, i really still like just about everything he's done, and the fact that it sounds like he might start every track by opening the same working file on his music-making software of choice doesn't bug me one bit. however, i don't think i ever need to hear a digitalism track that isn't "zdarlight" or any more music whatsoever made (or more likely remixed) by sebastian. maybe it's just that i think minimal house can use all the garage-y drum programming it can get, and that we don't need any more dirty electroscuzzglitch from anybody.

anyhow, it strikes me that what you might be willing to tolerate in the samey-ness stakes is probably quite different to what i am, and that this is probably quite telling. so tell me already.

jermainetwo, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

hi dere Todd Edwards

blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, he was mentioned in the dixon thread too - but if he's your example, then what is it about 120bpm church garage with chipmunk vox that you find endlessly fascinating? "it all sounds the same" is such a recurring criticism, as likely to be deployed by your annoyed relative as it is by your musice crit hero, i'm trying find out why sometimes it's ok and sometimes not.

jermainetwo, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Dunno if the actual songs sound identical, but I don't deny that the arrangements and "groove" of Coldplay's songs are usually quite the same. Anyway, doesn't matter to me with all those great melodies to distinguish them from each other anyway.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

music that sounds the same is musically and morally superior to that which is differentiated/eclectic

600, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

go on...

blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

posts that read the same are emotionally and morally superior to those which is differentiated/eclectic

600, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

^^ just ask geir!

600, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

To what extent must the sameyness be sameyness? Is this a mainly electronic discussion?

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

The Ramones.

filthy dylan, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and because they're great.

filthy dylan, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Motorhead - the song is great

Reatards Unite, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)


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