On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 07:01:07 +0200 A.D., "Per-Olof Karlsson" <grovsnus72@hotmail.com> carved the following runes about "[Kraftwerk] Analog vs Digital":
What happened with The Mix was that the soul of the music vanished (imho), and they've never found their way back to the good old analog magic. They probably never will, blinded by technology and impaired by perfectionism that they are.
I agree, at least to some extent.
There's no wonder electronic music was much better in the 70s and 80s. The same can be said about most technology things actually.. As long as you have to be smart and work hard to produce the results, some people manage to turn out works of art, but when every pooper can do something in ten minutes, quality is long gone. This holds true for music, and also for computer hardware and software..
I hear ya! If all you've got to do to get "a little melody" is to "press a special key", the crapflood starts and the old pros will get lost in the tech jungle, tweaking and turning the knobs trying to get that perfection to distinct themselves from the rubbish and live up to the expectations they made people have because they once were unique and a source of inspiration. Then again it's quite possible I'm a luddite and have become a grumpy old fart prematurely. :) (BTW, regarding software, check out the site in my .signature)
At least it's a defence for being nostalgic ;)
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