ive always been like that in a way with music i make. If any music geeks know who Popol Vuh is or Florian Fricke(same guy) they would know that this guy was one of the greats in early "electronic" music. However what blew my mind is that the only album where he used a synth was his first album where he used a Modular Moog and a Mellotron for the Aguirre soundtrack (which is essential listening by the way). After that everything people would attribute to him using synths were actually him using standard instruments like guitars, percussion, assorted acoustic keys and organs etc. in a different kind of way.
But yeah I aspire to work like them olden days when the actual physicality of music: plucking a string, striking a key, banging some gongs allowed you to dictate how human a song can sound. There's a huge difference between listening to Squarepusher use MAX/MSP on his laptop to sequence a song and listening to an ELP, Ashra, Cluster, or a Stevie Wonder, Bjorn Borgensson song and imagining them in front of all their synths physically turning some knobs, patching some chords and hopping around a stage like mad men.
heh yeah the more you take yourself out of the equation of making an actual sound the more you yearn for being like that first caveman hitting a reed with a stone. I remember all the ELP tracks I liked the most or Genesis tracks as well are the ones where the synth pariahs turn to their pianos and guitars instead of their synths.
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