Pretty much.breton wrote:Because this is how it is. For the 12" he just cut this one long track in two or something like that.Philsen wrote:but there is no break ...
Ricardo doesn't do versions. He just sits there, in his modular cave, twiddling his knob the knobs for a couple of hours and then edits all the bad parts out from the resulting record. Voilà, another 30 minute long remix!
"he uses logic..but drum samples? maybe in older tracks? maybe i have seen a mpc there once..but i am not sure.. he uses a nord wave a s master keyboard.. but he is not really teh guy that programs drum in the computer.. more a synth drum hardware sequencer guy. And in the logic there are not many tracks, often just one stereo rec of a life runoff.. maybe one or 2 dubs or loops/ vocal..whatever.. its pretty minimalistic maximal and live improvisation based.. but also the live performance aspect is minimalistic.. a little here.. a little there.. bassdrum off.. bass drum on again, nothing that would stress him..what is the main prinziple of his impressive workflow. a straight forward no doubt tactic with emphasis on the sound design. A day of sound design and jamming ends with a final take.
Compare that with all the people that spend hours and days browsing thru preset sounds and than spend another hours and days to move tiny blocks on the monitor to spend another hours and days to mix that thing, to achieve absolutly nothing in form of "we have heard that a thousend times before but this version of track 64 sounds generic and stiff", and you see the mastery in ricardos work. he is really quick..does a few tracks each week but is very selective about his releases and dont floods the market as he easily could do..
most funny thing is that opposite to that the zero achieving copycat block moover fraction feels qualified to have a few releases each month.
The desire to release seems to rise exponential with artistical impotence..."
