sharke
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I made a remark about a very particular type of music that I had listened to, and none of it bore the slightest resemblance to any of the artists you mention - Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk et al. There is nothing remotely "Kraftwerk" about the ambient sleep-aid music in the playlist that I'd listened to on Spotify.
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Some of the stuff you mention has been around for a long time ... and in the "new age" days (the 90's) ... some of the stuff in there was not exactly that bad ... it just wasn't very original was my only point. I liked how some folks took 20 seconds of Popol Vuh and turned it into some sort of music for anyone to have sex with, or to dream about angels, just because it had some synthesized voices of women in it!
sharke
Oh really? And what qualifies you to say that? Almost all of my current musical endeavors these days involves the flipping of buttons, the turning of knobs, and I've been listening to synthesized music almost my entire life.
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The comment is being mis-interpreted by you altogether, and I accept that my description was simplistic at best. Saying that the early krautrock was just like about turning of a knob, really meant that the sound effect was stretched out for 5 minutes or more, and a piece of music made out of it. In fact, this is one of the complaints about HAWKWIND by many folks, in that the effect lasts 5 minutes, and the jams are on in between it all ... and I kinda think that since we know (TODAY) what the effect is, that we sitting here and me taking your guitar playing and stretching that effect for 5 minutes, you would get bored after 15 seconds,
There is nothing mean about saying that ... it should be a laugh from you, at the least ... and fun goofing around with it ... but today, these effects are not thought of as a feeling while you did something, like they were back when we first heard it ... same thing that when many of us first heard synthesizers it was first associated with outer space ... because it was so unknown and foreign.
A lot of music came out of that feeling ... and that is my point.
As for "sleeping music" ... to me, that is not sleeping music at all ... the stuff you are mentioning, and in fact I find it boring ... and boring does not make me sleepy ... makes me want to throw it under the train wheels! Better yet, throw some coffee at the equipment that made it ... something ludicrous and funny!
I have no interest in doing what you say I am doing ... and a lot of it is just an idea ... that you don't like because I am not a "musician" and a "member" of your club ... I don't want to be a member of anything!