Listening to: Minilogue

[Jay Vaughan]

>> I guess I should listen to Minilogue, but .. sorry .. the association with Ableton just turns me right off.
> 
> Why?

Because I can’t stand Ableton-produce tracks, really.  There is something too accurate about the way the clips lock together, or .. something .. else about how Ableton enforces a convention on song-construction, for the purposes of convenience for the user.  I just find it predictable and formulaic - things are very rigid clock-wise, and I guess I’ve adopted a pattern-finding approach to listening to electronic music that has the effect of recognising when things were just ‘copy/pasted’ into existence in the track structure.  Maybe the jitter of MIDI is missing, who knows .. I’ll be the first to admit that I am being myopic about it, but the standard structural composition of your average Ableton composition seems to me to be too accessible for overuse.

That said, I’ll get over it and go check out Minilogue.  If I experience the phenomenon described above, I’ll try to work out what it is all about, subjectively.

j.