I remember when CD’s used to come out back in the day, like the days when rock bands were really a thing, and liner notes would list ‘personnel’ - and not only that, it would be like, what instrument was played etc. like, written by so and so, so and so on drums, this person on guitar, synths - played by a person, triangle and percussion played by this person.
Often, when I’m listening to modern day tracks, I wish they listed the gear used, in a somewhat similar fashion. Obviously many artists would take issue with that and ‘it’s not about what gear was used, man’. But I still think it’s interesting. It would be great to go to an individual track page and just see Minilogue - Pads, Elektron Analog 4 - chord stabs, Mutable instruments on percussive elements etc. and it doesn’t even have to be that specific, could just be per track. A4, Drumlogue, Microfreak, Rhodes, guitar. Guest appearance of so and so on the Prophet 5.
I think, if I ever get around to releasing something, I will do this. Not some wafty paragraph about taking inspiration from nature and trying to describe the sound, but just the instruments and tech used on a per track basis, and maybe a written paragraph about actual approaches.
Often, I find releases very rarely describe anything at all, and that’s cool, “it’s all about them music, man”, good on you. But it would fascinating to see some detail here. I guess in video based dawless jams this is all totally obvious, in a straight up audio release much less so.