In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
From Bill Laswell
I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
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