This old interview made my day.
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:16 pm
I was reading this Chris Clark interview last night and boc comes up briefly in it. I am as big of a Clark fan as I am for BOC and him mentioning them is pretty cool...
http://www.barcodezine.com/Chris%20Clar ... erview.htm
On your Body Riddle album you did live drumming then spliced it up. is this sort of self-sufficiency the direction you believe electronic artists should be heading? Yeah, that certainly still feels fresh to me that album, and what I was really pleased about was that I played the drums myself, then sampled them and produced them to a level that you’d sort of get off break records or whatever. I felt like I didn’t want to just use samples, I wanted to create it all myself, and I think what’s really ironic and weird at the moment is that the most innovative music is the stuff that sounds wrong and out of time. It’s weird that people are using computers and technology to sound not tight, but dysfunctional and a little bit fucked. Turning Dragon is more techno and is kind of on the grid, but with Body Riddle there was a looseness to it, and I think there’s a lot of work to be done with that, but I don’t think it’s strictly through the new technology that’s coming out.
I suppose Boards of Canada are probably recent protagonists of that dysfunctional sound you mentioned? Yeah, I really love their first album, that was sort of a lighthouse album for me.
http://www.barcodezine.com/Chris%20Clar ... erview.htm
On your Body Riddle album you did live drumming then spliced it up. is this sort of self-sufficiency the direction you believe electronic artists should be heading? Yeah, that certainly still feels fresh to me that album, and what I was really pleased about was that I played the drums myself, then sampled them and produced them to a level that you’d sort of get off break records or whatever. I felt like I didn’t want to just use samples, I wanted to create it all myself, and I think what’s really ironic and weird at the moment is that the most innovative music is the stuff that sounds wrong and out of time. It’s weird that people are using computers and technology to sound not tight, but dysfunctional and a little bit fucked. Turning Dragon is more techno and is kind of on the grid, but with Body Riddle there was a looseness to it, and I think there’s a lot of work to be done with that, but I don’t think it’s strictly through the new technology that’s coming out.
I suppose Boards of Canada are probably recent protagonists of that dysfunctional sound you mentioned? Yeah, I really love their first album, that was sort of a lighthouse album for me.