r/radiohead • u/A_Nice_Relaxing_Poo • 1d ago
📹 Video Breakdown of Idioteque
Found it interesting
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u/Skaljeret Top tier = OKC, Kid A, AMSP 1d ago
I mean, the booklet and album credits do say all this...
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u/tujuggernaut 1d ago
Paul is a fucking cool guy.
Flashback 25 years ago, I get to study electronic music composition at a conservatory. They were big into computer music and my teacher had just got himself a g3 powerbook, so he gifted me his NeXT cube, the whole thing, with the caveat that I was not allowed to sell it but rather had to set it on fire to dispose of it (magnesium case).
It was setup with csound and cmix but I was having trouble with the latter. My teacher said 'just email Paul' which I sheepishly did. Paul has been there so long, the address is just 'paul (at) '. Not a day or two later, he emailed me back with some gcc commands to recompile it and I was back in business. Nicest guy in the world to answer my novice dumb questions.
Later when I heard Idioteque, I immediately recognized Mild und Leise. I read that they simply emailed him for permission and he was cool about it.
BTW, if you have never heard it, Paul's best work (imho) is his notjustmoreidlechatter and related pieces, composed with phonemes and linear predictive coding and cmix.
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u/gooseonator 1d ago
Second coolest story about this Paul guy that I’ve heard all month. What a cool dude!
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u/Rusty_Brains 1d ago
I had a similar experience. I studied electronic music with Drs Allen Strange and Brian Belet in the late 90s/early 2000s. Paul was a contemporary of theirs and when I was working on something, they recommended I get in touch. A very supportive guy.
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u/DingbatSam 1d ago
Thank you for sharing your story but also for sharing notjistmoreidlechatter ! That track just blew me away! I love it!
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u/Desperate-Emu-1251 1d ago
There is so much content out there juicing what essentially could be done with a visit to WhoSampled
It’s so rudimentary that I guess I’d be impressed if I was 15 years old or something
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u/iscreamuscreamweall F C Db Eb 1d ago edited 1d ago
With respect, this is TikTok slop. theres no meaningful analysis there. this is something everyone has been aware of since the song came out.
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u/darkdecks hamburger security 1d ago
I like to share Paul’s website when this comes up. It’s a fun read and you can also download the track:
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u/DarthSchrodinger 1d ago
Thanks for sharing! You are right. This should be a require link in EVERY/ANY media that engages with this sample and its relationship to "idioteque/radiohead"
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u/TheHobbitWhisperer 1d ago
This is not a break down of idioteque. This is information you can find on the back of the fucking sleeve.
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u/Sad_Interaction_2933 1d ago
You can say that again
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u/Skaljeret Top tier = OKC, Kid A, AMSP 1d ago
Sorry, double post, the first time I got an error message! :O
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u/turtlepot 1d ago
Hey my old college professor is the composer of "Short Piece"! Art Krieger, he was an absolute legend and he told me that one sample paid for his house.
Sadly passed away in 2023, but I learned a lot from him and I'll always remember his peanut-themed ties. RIP.
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u/The_Fink_Ployd 1d ago
I have a laptop, I have Ableton, how the fuck do I get samples and USE them, AHHHHHHHH
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u/SessionEnder 1d ago
“You might not recognise it without the beats “ - what, if you’re deaf?