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Hell Of Minimal
nuisance:
Haha, I tried listening to 'Geisterfaust' at double speed and it was still insanely slow. If I'm in the wrong mood I'll generally bug out about half way through listening to even one track and start laughing. :laugh: I don't really think their doomy image comes across in the music, either - the music reminds me mostly of stuff like Angelo Badalamenti...
--- Quote from: OHsmeat on 13 Oct 2006, 17:28 ---anything on Mille PLateaux is HIGHLY recommended by me especially Kid606 "PS I love you" and Tim Heckers stuff and Shuttle 358 which are all in the ambient microhouse canon all very mellow and tasty. A lot falls into Musique Concrete/found sounds ambience (Shuttle 358).
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Hmm, don't think I've heard any Kid 606 that's very minimal, but there's a lot of interesting stuff to investigate on Mille Plateaux for sure. Pretty weird how much they changed - their industrial-tinged fucked up hip-hop compilations were how I first heard acts like DJ Vadim, Alec Empire and Techno Animal.
Still, when it comes to minimal and ambient business there's plenty to recommend.
First, Vladislav Delay, who I frothed about upthread, for starters.
Then the Oval material is the best kind of minimalism... confounding and difficult, but with an accessible tonality that makes it all pretty yummo. I personally love the clean lines of 'Systemisch' most (well, mixed up with the um.. not polyrhythmic.. what's the term that means different phrase lengths all at once?).
I also rate SND's 'Stdio' and 'Tender Love' very highly - if you can imagine ridiculously sparse, classical minimalists deciding to set up some synths and write some R&B (the former album) or 2-step (the latter) then ... well, actually if you can imagine that you're a fucking freak. Still.. they managed to dodge most of the cliches of later Mille Plateaux type business - no glitches, no drones, no dub effects, no surface noise. Just little ridiculously rarefied little constructs, with heaps of space, nice chords and the tiniest, tinniest rhythms.
Last, if you like Shuttle 358 I'd recommend you try out Electric Birds' stuff. I think his best is probably 'Strata Frames' which is on Belgian label U-Cover, but the Mille Plateaux release is 'Gradations' is good too.
--- Quote from: El Opium on 13 Oct 2006, 19:13 ---Drone artists I reccomend:
Birchville Cat Motel (my fave), Skullflower, Ashtray Navigations, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Burning Star Core, Hive Mind
Electronic Stuff:
Tim Hecker-Nice chilly laptop stuff, Tim Hecker, Seht
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You're the only person outside NZ I've encountered who knows of either Birchville Cat Motel or Seht, but I've been stalking your comments for a while since you mentioned the former in the current listening topic. Those guys play stuff sometimes at a crusty bar in Wellington run by various improv / free-jazz players.
OHsmeat:
--- Quote from: nuisance on 15 Oct 2006, 02:08 ---Haha, I tried listening to 'Geisterfaust' at double speed and it was still insanely slow. If I'm in the wrong mood I'll generally bug out about half way through listening to even one track and start laughing. :laugh: I don't really think their doomy image comes across in the music, either - the music reminds me mostly of stuff like Angelo Badalamenti...
--- Quote from: OHsmeat on 13 Oct 2006, 17:28 ---anything on Mille PLateaux is HIGHLY recommended by me especially Kid606 "PS I love you" and Tim Heckers stuff and Shuttle 358 which are all in the ambient microhouse canon all very mellow and tasty. A lot falls into Musique Concrete/found sounds ambience (Shuttle 358).
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Hmm, don't think I've heard any Kid 606 that's very minimal, but there's a lot of interesting stuff to investigate on Mille Plateaux for sure. Pretty weird how much they changed - their industrial-tinged fucked up hip-hop compilations were how I first heard acts like DJ Vadim, Alec Empire and Techno Animal.
Still, when it comes to minimal and ambient business there's plenty to recommend.
First, Vladislav Delay, who I frothed about upthread, for starters.
Then the Oval material is the best kind of minimalism... confounding and difficult, but with an accessible tonality that makes it all pretty yummo. I personally love the clean lines of 'Systemisch' most (well, mixed up with the um.. not polyrhythmic.. what's the term that means different phrase lengths all at once?).
I also rate SND's 'Stdio' and 'Tender Love' very highly - if you can imagine ridiculously sparse, classical minimalists deciding to set up some synths and write some R&B (the former album) or 2-step (the latter) then ... well, actually if you can imagine that you're a fucking freak. Still.. they managed to dodge most of the cliches of later Mille Plateaux type business - no glitches, no drones, no dub effects, no surface noise. Just little ridiculously rarefied little constructs, with heaps of space, nice chords and the tiniest, tinniest rhythms.
Last, if you like Shuttle 358 I'd recommend you try out Electric Birds' stuff. I think his best is probably 'Strata Frames' which is on Belgian label U-Cover, but the Mille Plateaux release is 'Gradations' is good too.
--- Quote from: El Opium on 13 Oct 2006, 19:13 ---Drone artists I reccomend:
Birchville Cat Motel (my fave), Skullflower, Ashtray Navigations, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Burning Star Core, Hive Mind
Electronic Stuff:
Tim Hecker-Nice chilly laptop stuff, Tim Hecker, Seht
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You're the only person outside NZ I've encountered who knows of either Birchville Cat Motel or Seht, but I've been stalking your comments for a while since you mentioned the former in the current listening topic. Those guys play stuff sometimes at a crusty bar in Wellington run by various improv / free-jazz players.
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I've got like meta quotes going on here! HA. Anyhow yeah kid 606 is truly a master of many genres check out the track "Sometime" by him its off the previously mentioned album. I also second that oval business but I think Ovalcommers is more in the drone territory and a bit more accessable than Systemisch, 94 Diskont (I know its spelled wrong don't feel like looking itup) has some really nice drone cuts too with the clicks being less pulsey and more like decaynig cds. I listened to Birchville but couldn't quite get into their sound maybe I need an album recommendation? OH I also wanted to recommend Phil Niblock if he hasn't been brought up excellent drone but only listen to if you're ready to give it time seeing as he is about as drone as you get but worth it. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and MINIT if you guys haven't heard them your missing out they use FRENCH HORNS and laptop trickery to create some of the most beautiful soundscapes evar! Now Right Hee is my album of choice for them. Cheers!
soak:
--- Quote from: La Creme on 09 Oct 2006, 20:41 ---2) Play them Boards Of Canada's "The Campfire Headphase". Straight through.
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I always thought that In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country was the best intro to Boards of Canada.
nuisance:
--- Quote from: OHsmeat on 15 Oct 2006, 16:42 ---OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and MINIT if you guys haven't heard them your missing out they use FRENCH HORNS and laptop trickery to create some of the most beautiful soundscapes evar! Now Right Hee is my album of choice for them. Cheers!
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I was stoked to see them a few times when I lived in Australia. They're great great great. 'Now Right Here' is choice but I really like their first album, 'Music', too... although it's probably fucking hard to get hold of now. It's on a somewhat rad Kiwi label called Sigma Editions, which also put out Vladislav Delay's album 'Ele'. I emailed them to get the CDs, but that was 5+ years ago.
OHsmeat:
Yeah no shit I tried to get Now Right Here legally but nothing doin, same with anything else in their library to be honest cause thats the only one I could get ahold of
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