there is a certain objective, goal to my music in the moment. what is this goal? well i'm doing for music for almost two decades now, and i noticed there is a kind of maturing to the sound, the purpose, when you are in it for so long. when i started, i tried to experiment, try everything out, without really knowing where i would venture. right now i am more interested in a bigger picture to my music. in things, that are just not adding sounds or concepts in an almost random fashion - although this has its pros too, of course, and i guess i will venture there again soon. so my approach right now is not just thinking of things like, adding a rock guitar to a breakbeat or finding the most weird sample sources and such.
one of the main, the biggest influences on all music was, at least in its first period, which ran along 1997-2004 basically, was progressive rock, psychedelic experimental rock. the "epic" rock songs with their stunning lengths and solos in the 60s and 70s. not because i like rock so much - i hated rock, i hated e-guitars from the bottom of my heart. this felt so backwards. but it is obviously some of the most complex, complicated, intellectual music made in the last century. i am not sure one could find music of this complexity - before the rise of techno - in any other genre, that is not academic in origin. only jazz also comes to my mind (maybe there is more - i am not an expert of this).
so this was always there and a backing setting for my own music, which was far away from rock in any other sense, as it was purely digital, sample driven and such.
now, with this maturing of ideas, and with looking for perspectives, i thought about furthering this connection even more. to make a style of music, that is a connection of psychedelic rock and techno music.
this was an idea that seemed weird enough for me. because, at first glance, these styles are so far apart from each other - the "real" instrument jamming and the preprogrammed digital world of techno. it seemed like a task big enough and complex enough to be interesting.
also, what made it attractive to me, is that noone else does this right now. well, i am sure there are people - i seen it on soundcloud - but even my friends don't produce it that way. 95% of producers don't do it. because techno is now at a point where it's preprogrammed, preplanned, completely synthetic, completely digital, with softsynths and all and complex sequencing programs.
i wanted to get completely away from that. from sequenced music, from programmed music. to not create techno tracks - but to create techno jam sessions, spontanous, chaotic, random, improvised.
this also brings us to the third point. techno is not like it yet - but techno used to be that way. the early outings of acid house, and i think of detroit too, are much more closer to the rock sessions of the 70s than to the presequenced techno of today. keep in mind that even kraftwerk, the so-called (really?) pioneers of "techno" arose out of the psychedelic jam rock scene of germany.
if you listen to my tracks you might note that, yes, there are sequences too in them. but i liked this paradox. i liked this idea. i wanted to combine these seeemingly opposites. to make mathematic music, but yes, also to have it improvised at the same time. to improsive mathematic formulas on the go, if you will.
nostalgia plays a role too, maybe, but i don't seem it important. i just liked the approach, the complexity of experimental rock of those decades. and the spaciness too, of course.
so, after i made the decision to venture down that road i had to figure out how to put in a praxis. how could i jam with my sequencer program and the pre-programmed sounds, or rather, how could i jam them, block them, to create beautiful unordered things. well, i came up with some ideas eventually. i simply... ah, not the time to spill my artistic beans here just yet. it will have to remain a secret for now.
of course, i don't dare to say i succeeded with my task. maybe this music doesn't live up to expectations. but maybe this is also not the point. to music in generally.
but, hey, at least i tried, eh?
you can hear some of the sounds of this 'project' in my mixes:
Low Entropy - Techno Mix http://www.mixcloud.com/low_entropy/low-entropy-techno-mix-2014/
Low Entropy - Dark Hardcore mix http://www.mixcloud.com/low_entropy/low-entropy-dark-hardcore-mix-futuristic-hardcore/
Low Entropy - Doomtechno Mix http://www.mixcloud.com/low_entropy/doomtechno-mix-80-126-bpm/
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