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The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
yaga:
Ripped this from a stream. Comes out next week.
320kbps, looks legit on the spectrum.
Gold - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_lgdoiL7I
Aidy's Girl's A Computer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsPeZhyTV5c
--- Quote from: someone at ateaseweb had this to say: ---So the Darkstar album is really, really different, even considering I was expecting something quite out of the ordinary anyway.
Aside from "Aidy's Girl" (which is questionable in itself), there really is no dubstep on this album. This is a collection of downtempo pop, though that's an awfully reductive thing to call it and doesn't really encompass the amount of gorgeous detail in this album. It really is computer soul, only this time the computers have learned to appropriate proper human voices. The closing track is a do-over of "Squeeze My Lime" and it's quite affecting to hear what used to be a vocoder ring out in a human tenor amidst this swelling organic backing track.
It sounds like a very expensive album; it's not a particularly exciting one, nor is it sprawling. It's 40 minutes, much of which is spent withdrawn into its own shell. You really have to work to get into this album. Almost all of the songs have vocals, and I'm not just talking samples or snippets here, like full on verses and so forth. I'm impressed with the vocals. They aren't virtuosic or particularly unique but they work well, they're kind of Britpop but just drenched in this sort of defeated melancholy. The production is really interesting if you listen carefully, there is so much going on in these songs and I'm not surprised the album took so damn long. I don't know it well enough to start citing song titles but there was one track that sounded like a Martin Hannett production with the rhythm section lopped off; really interesting treble interplay, lots of watery echo, but the drums were something completely different.
What's most interesting is how this justifies itself as a Hyperdub release. With rare exceptions ("Aidy's Girl" for one, obviously), it doesn't really try to fit itself into the hardcore continuum or any of the recent offshoots of bass music. There are layers and layers to be discovered here, many nights spent dissecting every moment of this album. It's not an album of beats you can put on and enjoy for a few days and then forget it ever existed (*cough* Heretix *cough*), this feels like an album you need to live inside of and get to know intimately before you can understand it, because I sure as hell don't entirely understand it yet. Maybe that's ultimately better for Hyperdub, because this stands as a statement completely free of the implications of whatever the hell dubstep is, it could work as a particularly droopy indie-pop record. This is going to confuse the hell out of pitchfork.
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StaedlerMars:
That Cloud Control album is A+ thumbs up.
Scandanavian War Machine:
speaking of which, could someone re-upload their first one? The old link is down, and I've been looking around the tubes but I can't find it anywhere, and Wikipedia seems to think Bliss Release is their debut so...I'm at a loss.
My ears would appreciate it.
Tom:
Yes, I'm on it.
Cloud Control - s/t [320 kbps]
Tom:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 13 Oct 2010, 17:16 ---speaking of which, could someone re-upload their first one? The old link is down, and I've been looking around the tubes but I can't find it anywhere, and Wikipedia seems to think Bliss Release is their debut so...I'm at a loss.
My ears would appreciate it.
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Technically Bliss Release is their first album, they had a self-titled EP last year.
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