Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

<<Today there's a cult that wants to replace all musical instruments
with computers playing samples, so there's absolutely no interaction
with the noise-making process.

That's surreal.

Am I the only one thinking "Stepford Wives" here?>>


no, don. but the blame isn't entirely with the technology; that so often
these days the bland-out approach is taken is a natural consequence of the
commoditisation of art. cars used to be hand-built once too; I'd venture that
witnesses of the arrival of the model-t mourned the passing of quality wooden
coachwork. big business always damages the things that people like, by trying
to overtake the demand with sheer quantity and variety, and erasing the vital
personal touches from the product.
one can only hope that the damn things (samplers) are so cheap that
eventually one of them's bound to fall into the hands of a genuine musical
subversive who doesn't then sell out. but who cares? we've already got julian
cope.

duncan/400nr1098 and several dormant samplers.