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    is it true Go Plastic by Squarepusher featured no computer wizardry?

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    I don't doubt that it can be done, but I really think he was using more PC during that time than people on here want to admit. It was released in 2001, right before Drukqs, which is more than likely all computer/laptop based compositions besides the piano pieces. ..

     

    I have a hard time believing that being mates with Aphex and that lot that he was still low-teching it that hard.

    yeah man and go plastic is compressed to hell and back. to me it sounds like his first real computer based album and when i noticed that he claims no computer was involved, i honestly felt like he was fucking with us. i still think he is!

     

    "my fucking sound" for example. i mean come on... spliced tape for that track? YEAH RIGHT!

     

    also, this thread is closing in on 500 views. glad i asked this question because it seems a lot of people were interested in it.

     

     

     

     

    Allllll wrong...

     

    compressed as fuck? wtf ?

     

    Throw an amen loop into a sampler, toss on a compressor, take the threshold way down and toss the makeup pretty high and you'll see what I'm referring to. its that signature SP sound. not a diss btw. its a very distinct trait on his drums.

    is it true Go Plastic by Squarepusher featured no computer wizardry?

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    I don't doubt that it can be done, but I really think he was using more PC during that time than people on here want to admit. It was released in 2001, right before Drukqs, which is more than likely all computer/laptop based compositions besides the piano pieces. ..

     

    I have a hard time believing that being mates with Aphex and that lot that he was still low-teching it that hard.

    yeah man and go plastic is compressed to hell and back. to me it sounds like his first real computer based album and when i noticed that he claims no computer was involved, i honestly felt like he was fucking with us. i still think he is!

     

    "my fucking sound" for example. i mean come on... spliced tape for that track? YEAH RIGHT!

     

    also, this thread is closing in on 500 views. glad i asked this question because it seems a lot of people were interested in it.

     

     

    is it true Go Plastic by Squarepusher featured no computer wizardry?

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    there is a video someone found of Squarepusher using cooledit pro 2.0 during the era of Go Plastic, which is pretty much exactly what I predicted he used to do a lot of the hyper editing and effects on Go Plastic. A lot of people claim he did all the effects entirely on an Eventide effects processor, which could also be true but he'd still have to stitch them all together to get those quick editing sounds (like a long reverb tail on one snare being abruptly cut off), hence a DAW wave editor. The sequencing and composition could have been done on hardware I guess. .

    exactly my gripe. it almost seems impossible to be "stitched" together without the use of a DAW. lots of it sounds like it was composed in a tracker of some sort too.

    is it true Go Plastic by Squarepusher featured no computer wizardry?

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    I was referring to another post in this thread, not you :P

     

    But no, from what he said in that chat, no DAW. Just hardware stuff pushed to the very edges of what it could do. You might be able to find the audio of it if you look around the internet highway.

    Insanity. Complete insanity! Its legitimately been blowing my mind all morning. I saw the TechTalk interview or whatever on youtube where he's all "i want it to be digital and brutal" in his best british accent, and he was using what looked to be an early form of reaktor to shape some sounds.

     

    Could have been unrelated footage, but either way, the man goes out of his way to be a badass motherfucker.

     

    If anyone has any insight on specific processes he used for glitching with hardware, i'd love to know more. Really fascinating stuff.

    is it true Go Plastic by Squarepusher featured no computer wizardry?

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    I read on the wiki that the album was done without a computer. in my opinion, that seems so unrealistic that i've been listening to it all morning trying to figure out what the hell is going on. certain sections are obviously performed and recorded, but other sections are so meticulous and drawn out/lacking repetitiveness, that it doesn't really seem to be plausible.

     

    I'm not sure of what technology was available back in 2001, but i can't imagine that album being arranged, sliced and chopped with no computer interference. Any of you guys/girls have any mind-blowing info on the subject?

     

    Is it actually not that big of a deal?

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