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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
eddie:
I've got on CD and I agree it is awesome.
Clintaga:
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Is Bassnectar comin my way? JSYK Mesmirizing the Ultra and the Heads Up EP are both in this thread already, so if you got something more to share I will basically run around West Philly singing the praises of VSnaresFreak for a while.
Also, Onewheel and I had a ballin' party at his frat last night, and he turned me onto an absolute treasure trove of Dubstep and DnB websites, one of which had the absolutely most amazing selection of free Dubstep downloads, including this EXCLUSIVE Caspa (As in Fabriclive 37 Caspa & Rusco) gotdarker.com mix set. It's the Hawt Sauce.
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An absolute perfect way to break it down for 23 Minutes and 28 Seconds.
Oh whatever, here's the Distance "Dubpressure" Mix
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This is where the Vex'd Remix came from, I believe.
Uhhh.... Hmmm, oh yeah, he's a Skream Mixset from Rinse FM, Early 2007
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For those not in the know, Skream is like Benga, but less "I'm gonna make you shake your body cause you just gotta move" and more "Music so dark light cannot escape it's touch" while still being totally danceable, IMO.
Oh by the by, Enduser's "Calling the Vultures" was totally frickin' bawls out incredible, is that the only track he's released?
oh, and 'nthing Amplivate, shit was ridiculous.
I look back on the last year of my life, and I can safely claim my personal discovery of Dubstep and Glitch/Break as two very tall Highlights, like, top 3 and 4 "Things I wish i'd done 5 years ago" of 2008. For anyone who feels that way, in the PA Region, there's now a monthly dubstep party at the Barbary in Philadelphia, which sadly jives with me, seeing as I'm not 21 yet *Sadface*.
And because this doesn't get said nearly enough, thank you everyone on the QC Forums musical community for your selfless acts of unabashed big pimpitude (ladies is pimps too). I honestly don't even read this comic, never have, but this music share jazz is basically off the hook, as anyone who like me has probably download 100+ albums, even if you only keep a third of them, probably doesn't want to think of their lives without some of the amazing gems we got crawling around up in this bandwith /gush.
imapiratearg:
Album dump!
Here is something by a member of The Olivia Tremor Control!
The Sunshine Fix - Age of the Sun
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Here is a pretty good album by an indie pop band!
French Kicks - One Time Bells
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This is a mighty fine debut album by a psychedelic pop (psychedelia?) band!
Apollo Sunshine - Katonah
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Also, here is an EP released last year by a band from my state which I cannot stop showering with glowing compliments. They make excellent tunes. The EP was released for free on their website and Myspace and is their finest (if shortest) collection of songs yet.
The Year's Best - 2007 EP
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Highlights: "I Had a Friend," "Where It Hurts" and "The Day You Let Down Everyone."
the_pied_piper:
Well, finally mediaf!re works for me again so here is part of what i promised.
Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love
--- Quote ---Becky Stark's vocals soar and dive from whispery soprano to somewhere deeper and darker, backed up by pianos, violas, violins and cello. It's no longer anything new to blur the line between the musical worlds of classical and pop but rarely are they brought together as well or as beautifully as they are here.
The band do fast and furious on Oh No and Side Of The Lord; slow and heartbroken on Garden Rose, I'll Never Lie Again, Bring Me A Song and the lullaby-like closer When You Wake For Certain; pure pop on Open Your Heart and Here Comes One. Add in tribal beats on Like An Arrow, while on Dance Until It's Tomorrow, you can almost hear the glass beginning to shatter as Stark's voice reaches higher than any human should be allowed to before My Shadow Is A Monday wanders through a bar where the moonshine flows freely, sweetly and illegally.
And so it goes on, across 12 tracks of pure musical perfection. Forced at gunpoint to pick a favourite, it would have to be the piano tip-toe and brass reply of Bring Me A Song or perhaps Find A Way, which channels the ghost of Nico and teaches it to sing, but in truth there's not a single duff track showing its face anywhere remotely close to here.
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The Innocence Mission - Befriended
--- Quote ---As with their 1995 breakthrough, Glow, the Innocence Mission's Befriended is an album of small gifts rendered with a craftsman's touch. Karen Peris has an endearing and pure voice, her refined intonations glide over the music like a brave bird singing on an cold autumn morning. She and guitarist (and husband) Don and bassist Mike Bitts, works in ethereal atmospheres on such songs as "Sweep Down Early" and "Tomorrow on the Runway." These songs revolve around past lives, families, and reminiscences -- sort of an emotional scrapbook of music and memories.
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Page France - Hello, Dear Wind
--- Quote ---There is an edge of melancholy throughout: the jangly guitars, ringing bells, and joyous keyboards betray talk of fear, of being blown away by the wind—and lead singer Michael Nau admits that we are all dogs, begging for scraps from the divine. In “Junkyard,” the most cryptic, and the darkest track, Nau tells us that this Christianity not only requires us to "lie there patiently" but to have life "shake us like a bad dream," even if the dream was about "the truest song that was never true."
If all of this sounds oddly intense, it should. Hello, Dear Wind feels like people talking quietly in a circle, a collection narratives of confusion and shame. Things you would hear at retreat centers, AA, the confessional booth, bible studies, and the like. It is easy to mock lo-fi emo boys with their four-track, singing love songs to girls who will never really love them—now imagine finding that girl who will love them forever: all of that trepidation about adolescent desire remains, but there is a surety amongst the doubt.
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Page France - Come, I'm A Lion
--- Quote ---One of Come, I'm a Lion's biggest strengths is its ability to be full without being stuffed, to sound uncluttered but never sparse. Every sound and word contained herein comes across as necessary, and in most cases it is. Michael Nau and his band of musical collaborators has forged a real gem with this album. They've managed to pull off poetry without pretentiousness, and without sacrificing a solid musical backbone. Both are vital organs, and on Come, I'm a Lion they combine beautifully.
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Page France - ...and the Family Telephone
--- Quote ---This braiding of the unconscious with the Unknown, as crookedly rendered as it might be, is Telephone's greatest charm-- an inventive intertwining that gives the record a woozy, playful charisma. Like Danielson's Daniel Smith, Nau creates a loopy musical world concerned with the extratextual elements of organized religion, with any converts he attracts along the way merely interested in playing along. Like religion, music only exists inasmuch as it is performed, and on Telephone's closer "Casting Day", Nau seeks to recruit a new crop of participants for his next show, asking: "Who do you wanna be? In that crooked afterlife, at the bottom of the sea?"
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memann:
Circulatory System - Circulatory System
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--- Quote ---From Pitchfork
This, the self-titled debut from Olivia Tremor Control mastermind Will Cullen Hart, is one of the few albums I've heard that can effectively blur the line between real-world time and dream-world time. With its illusory, ethereal production, wistful melodies, and oft-funereal pace, this is one of those rare albums that can completely absorb you in such a way as to almost dissolve the world around you, and make you feel like you've been transported to another realm of existence within the course of 58 minutes.
While not an Olivia Tremor Control release by name, there are very few elements here that will be unfamiliar to fans of the band. Aside from Bill Doss, just about everyone who's ever contributed to an OTC release is present, making for a grand total of 21 musicians involved in its making. Given the sheer volume of people contributing, and Cullen Hart's history with layering sound, it's no surprise that Circulatory System is a sonically dense album. But here, more than on any Olivia Tremor Control record, Cullen Hart displays an almost supernatural talent for melding these sounds into a single entity that is absolutely enveloping, and for shaping that entity around a powerful melody. In some ways, the absence of Bill Doss seems to be a blessing, turning the once-Olivia sound inward as Hart is left to explore his own lyrical and sonic ruminations on time, death, and the nature of humanness.
9.5/10
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