Destroying the pre-sets is a wonderful analogy. So many of these artists discovered their creative method through rigorous self-critique, questioning the existing etiquette that embedded itself, quietly, in the relationship between the player and their instrument. Their music founded itself on questions such as: “Why is it this way? Does it have to be this way?” The process of Main was like dismantling a sports car, examining the individual components that had made Loop such a thrill ride: reducing the ecstasy of riffs, distortion and choruses to their core form as compounds of frequency and
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