13 Apr
2010
13 Apr
'10
5:04 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:11:14PM +0200, fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 02:15:30AM +0200, Jörn
Nettingsmeier wrote:
My favorite record of perhaps all time is Thomas Dolby's "Aliens Ate My
Buick".
Dolby's "The Flat Earth" is a close second (notice a pattern?).
I love Dolby's and Bill Bottrell's production. The stuff is so transparent, and
seems so simple and clean, yet there are tons of little details hidden in there.
-ken
well, not in the literal sense - how could it?
but in the sense that there is constant action in every major frequency
band pretty much all the time, which is why it's so quick to equalise a
p.a. system with it. no need to loop or skip.
i'm pretty sure that was what fagen was aiming at - to produce dense
music that stays transparent yet has a very wide spectrum, constantly.
and i wouldn't put it past him to check on the analyser where there's
some space left for yet another sound layer or part ;)
In that sense surely, but then I'd think Fagen is not
alone - any producer going for a 'rich' arrangement will
take care not to cram everything in the same part of the
spectrum. Don't have any ABBA here, but I wonder how they
measure on Japa...