I Robot

[Flint]

Serious question: are there any vocals on this album? I find that vocal parts really get in the way of me digging Alan Parsons Project as much as I'd like to.

(btw: my vote for "most chill ever" is Miles Davis - In a Silent Way)

Originally Posted by Ibram

In other words, they don't listen to music from before they were born.

I was born in 1975 and I find almost the opposite to be true, in a way. Not literally though, because I love all kinds of stuff, from every era. And new, exciting things are happening all the time. But, somehow, I like what alot of bands did before I was born, after after that they sort of fizzled out, to me.

Alot of the catchy beats being re-hashed in electronica are from this pre-Flint era, but I love to go back and play them the way they were done first, by beating on actual physical objects. Now, people are even sampling themselves, writing on machines, and then going back to the instruments and playing the stuff they built out of loops of themselves! Dudes even use Boomerang samplers to play live to loops of themselves. It's a fun time to be a drummer. People understand all these different rhythmic languages because of the saturation of percussion-heavy styles, and I can whip it all out and they know what to do with it. I can blast out these super-fusion ghost-note jamborees, and people recognize how to stick to it, they don't even realize I am copping Billy Cobham, or whatever.