When it comes to the production of electronic music, there are many ways the track can be made. There are approaches to “set the sample digital”, where the manufacturers coating pre sound or loop to write the piece. There are approaches to “analog to digital”, where a producer will play synthesizer analog drum machine or program and feed them into digital audio work stations such as Ableton. And what I would call “organic to digital” approach, where the producers recorded a more conventional instruments and processes and the results on the computer. Most producers employ some combination of these techniques. One that uses all of them really interesting way is the producer of the 27-year-old Brian Allen Simon, or Anenon.
Inner Hue, Anenon’s debut full length album, coming out next week, maintaining some sort of astral narratives for more than half an hour. Created on Rhodes keyboards, Roland 909 and tenor Sax (as detailed in this interview was awesome geeked-out in XLR8R) and then set up on the computer, is a two-part inner Hue dream to beat one part. Sometimes the Roland 909 drum machine, Simon goes under the sparkling Bell-like timbres, sometimes under what sounds like a cloud of effervescent. Often beats really provide a way to expose the ambient sound or tenor saxophone … the title song, “Inner Hue,” has the support of Mr. rhythm that echoed guitar plucks, Rhodes and steady atmosphere.
“In the morning and late nights spent working hard during the timbre and feeling, weeks and months are perfect. My whole body going deeper and deeper into the sound of Rhodes (which make up the whole material and the melody of this song) with every gaze to the computer screen. “
When I read this email, I think from the conversations that I’ve heard for as long as I’ve been following the electronic music, one in which people are questioning or praised producer method as a way to undermine or celebrate their products. Recently, Spin.com author Philip Sherburne discusses this issue in a piece about the book of revelation that Steve Angello 2010 a great success, “Knas” is the product of a sample of pre. Some listeners felt cheated.
I must admit, I dig it. When “Knas” blasted through the speakers at electric Zoo in 2010, I raised my hand, standing on my toes waiting for the drop, then jump up and down wildly when samples of the famous kicked in.
