Notices by Louis (extentofthejam@mastodon.social)

@polpo I did back in the day and it was harrowing. You just keep anticipating that grind grind grind knowing that if a disk is bad your entire system is fucked

FM drums are underrated #chiptune

Not to get too off topic, but it’s interesting also how anti-sampling regulation killed the most interesting uses of sampling in which many many different loops were overlaid and chipped or scratched (think Public Enemy). In the 90s I remember hits where the entire hook was stolen because a label can always spend the money to clear a single sample, but not like a dozen samples.

Before synthesizers, you couldn’t just dial a bunch of notes in a sequencer and expect them to be played. You’d have to manually play them. That alongside keyboards and other devices which could fill in for multiple parts did cost musician jobs. Sampling was widely considered nothing more than stealing for the whole of the 80s and a lot of the 90s, largely due to people using it in the laziest and least interesting way possible.

The #AIart debate is very frustrating. The rabid pro side needs to be less smug and could take time to actually appreciate the value of art and the rabid anti side could take a few moments to actually learn about what they are raging against because. Both come off as ignorant. It’s also weird how much this mirrors the synthesizer or sampling debates, which I am old enough to remember. It’s probably a good thing most people weren’t on a computer network then.

@mogwai_poet I just realized you forgot Portal by Activision (fwiw it is supposed to be great)