true. I did mean post jungle, but I get words mixed up sometimes. I was refering specifically to venetian snares or shitmat or other artists that seem to work more in the heavy edit style that reminds me of early jungle. If I was to back up my bad vocab, I would explain my words by saying that these artists music remind me of what I thought jungle was when I was only reading about it, and before I ever heard it.

It seems that the point about trackers and akai being inseperable in defining the "tracker" sound comes from this line in the wiki entry...

Tracker music was a fantastic training ground for a generation of electronic dance musicians, many of whom saved up for an Akai sampler, a multi-effects unit, a mixer and a microphone, thence to storm the charts.

I don't really know what part of the tracker required these kids to upgrade to an akai sampler, as there were quite a few ways to get your tracker up to the 44.1 / 16 bit standard set by hardware samplers. Most trackers were still missing the really nice filters that came with most akai samplers, and there may have been other items missing as well. It may have been the input methods, or the monophonic method of thinking about composition that a tracker forces the user into. I think that the interview with aphrodite is quite revealing, as it shows that his studio focused quite a bit around a tracker. I would not be suprised to find out that quite a few other electronic musicians of that era worked in a similar manner.

I just wanted to bring up that most trackers are certainly not open source, but they were created in an environment that pushed shareware / lowcost principals, and if I understand it correctly, were mostly in house creations for musicians working with demo groups to create soundtracks.
- jonbro 3-02-2005 9:34 am





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