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Hendrik Jan Veenstra
> I was JOKING JOKING JOKING!!!!!

Hah, of course I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW!!!!!

> Gawd, do I really have to put a smiley after every stupid remark I
> make...?  Then all my msgs would contain more smileys than remarks
> :-).

No, of course not - but I smelled a bit of that "better learn how to play
your instrument" thing again, as in one of your contributions to the trance.
I know that such comments, especially coming from an obviously clever person
can't be taken 100% serious, but there's a bit of truth in them though, no?
Now admit, goddamnit! :-)

Actually, not too long ago I was saying such things almost all the time, and
yes, I was almost serious about it. It actually changed when I've been to
some kinda of pretty much "underground-ish" rave. Not that I really liked
all the people stuffed with drugs but the music had a special quality. It
was like pumping and hypnotic. Surely not what you would usually define as
"musical artistry" but there was a lot of highly interesting soundstuff
going on, something you would never find in your average sounding
jazz/rock/pop band. IMO that can be called artistry as well.
Another experience was that I started fooling around with such sounds as
well. Started with some Korg DW8000 which I got for cheap. Originally only
meant to replace my keyboard to record MIDI events into my PC I found myself
sitting with it and fooling around with the internal arpeggiators and
filters for hours.

These days I would like to find out how to integrate all those modern
sounding things into my (admittedly) somewhat old-fashioned musical
style(s). And no, I'm not talking about the "Hey, let's replace this Fender
Jazzbass with a 303 filter" thing which quite some people seem to do these
days, I'd be more interested in really integrating it, both by means of
sound and composition. Btw, I think Massive Attack and Portishead for
example do a great job on that.

So far,
Sascha