Quote Originally Posted by tekku7181
it can sound xacly the same or w/a slight variance,,like an xtra/diff hi hat or kick or vocal sample,,,its not structureless but has a more consitent structure throughout and the changes r more subtle and imo more appreciated than the typical track w/a predictable build up, the breakdown, the kick comes back and evryone is happy type track,,,,,a lot of these tracks r very short or at least they should be mixed in and out relatively quickly and this is where the structure(more typical defintion of...) comes in,,,its more on the dj to create a structure from the diff loopy tracks through good programming and tight xciting mixing,,,,a very understandable strory can be told like this although it may not be as obvious..i think
It got overdone though... I remember a time when it was almost impossible to buy records like this (back in '94/'95) and the only people really doing this kind of stuff were The Advent and the old "Reload" label from belgium, and so it sounded really fresh... when you have 50+ labels putting out 10 records a year of this kind of stuff, anything really good gets lost in the fodder, and sadly, this is what happened, the sound got done to death, this is why I grew tired of it personally... I've never heard anything as good as Dynamic Structures III on Reload or the Advent's number 8 on Internal (I think? the one with "Retreat" on) since... also when these records came out, you never used to hear whole sets of them, they were cool in the mix with other stuff, it's when certain djs seemed to put there blinkers on and play whole sets of this kind of stuff, really killed it for me...