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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
KvP:
FaltyDL - Bravery EP
--- Quote from: FACT Magazine ---Like a lot of people, I find myself a bit irritated by the the idea of "wonky" as a genre, but unable to get away from increasingly using the term as more and more gloriously psychedelic and off-beam beat music appears around the world. Likewise, "future garage", though it does describe post-dubstep sounds that Martyn, Kode 9, Whistla, Brackles, Joy Orbison, Untold and co are all to some degree operating within, doesn't really feel satisfactory as a genre either. But maybe it might be possible to see these two terms not as fenced-off areas, but as poles or attractors within the much broader flux of current synth-funk? Certainly recent releases like Zomby's One Foot Ahead Of The Other, and this mini-album of new material from New Yorker Drew Lustman, suggest that there are plenty of artists able to traverse between both poles, and further abroad to boot, without losing their identity.
Bravery kicks off with the undeniably "wonky" technique of untethering the drums of 'Make Me Feel So Right' from quantised patterns, allowing them to slide out of kilter slightly differently in each bar. But this is not just IDM wanking: play this track as loudly as it deserves, and you realise that it is still a club track, its irregularity being a very purposeful and effective form of disorientation, and that the warm subs and diva vocal snippets that knit the whole thing together being far more than just signifiers of a rave/garage past (although they are that too), but are there for their instant and powerful effect on the listener's nervous system. The album ends with 'Discant', a lovely piece of analogue boogie not so very far from what DâM-FunK is doing at the moment, with the added crunch 909s that could come from an early 90s Eddie Fowlkes or Blake Baxter track.
In between, the tracks veer between hip hop swing and a zippier style that concertinas the whole history of disco through house into UK garage. Whatever the tempo though, the funk synth interjections and tricksy shuffle sound like what Luke Vibert might be capable of if he dropped his insistence on whimsical elements in favour of more of a city swagger. There's a rich soul gloss to the production, not quite the terrifying 80s cocaine-soul/Steely Dan sheen of Hudson Mohawke, but certainly in a way that shows no interest in the lo-fi = underground equation. Despite the tempo shifts, the record is extraordinarily coherent, and alongside DâM-FunK, Hud Mo, Dorian Concept and others suggests that maybe we need to start thinking more broadly for our genre terms: yes there are wonky and garage elements here but ultimately it's great 21st century computer funk, so who's got a catchy genre name for that?
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Touch Me Im Sick:
Wanna Buy a Bridge?: A Rough Trade Compilation of Singles (Released 1980)
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--- Quote ---Tracklisting:
1. "Alternative Ulster" - Stiff Little Fingers
2. "Mind Your Own Business" - Delta 5
3. "Man Next Door" - The Slits
4. "Aerosol Burns" - Essential Logic
5. "Part Time Punks" - Television Personalities
6. "Read About Seymour" - Swell Maps
7. "We Are All Prostitutes" - The Pop Group
8. "Soldier Soldier" - Spizzenergi
9. "Ain't You" - Kleenex
10. "Nag Nag Nag" - Cabaret Voltaire
11. "In Love" - The Raincoats
12. "Final Day" - Young Marble Giants
13. "Skank Bloc Bologna" - Scritti Politti
14. "At Last I Am Free" - Robert Wyatt
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Get if you are even remotely interested in post-punk.
KickThatBathProf:
Would you care to tell us what that is?
Also, I am genuinely surprised to see I'm the first to post this.
Baroness - Blue Record
--- Quote ---Georgia-based psychedelic rock band (calling them a metal act seems very reductive, though there's some seriously headbangable material on this disc) Baroness has made a subtle but unmistakable evolutionary leap on this, their second full-length and a clear companion piece to 2007's Red Album. It's hard to say exactly what new guitarist Pete Adams has brought to the band after replacing drummer Allen Blickle's brother Brian, but the band's established blend of Southern sludge riffs, druggy instrumental journeys, and melodic interstitial interludes, all propelled by a particularly thudding drum sound and held together by John Baizley's hoarse but clean vocals and gorgeous cover art, are even stronger now than before. The transition from the almost Moody Blues-like "Steel That Sleeps the Eye" into the crunching hard rock epic "Swollen and Halo" is just one example of Baroness' seamless melding of moods through technique and compositional acumen. There are numerous interludes on the disc -- basically, any track shorter than four minutes is an exploration of a riff followed by a dissolve into sound effects or keyboard swooshes, slowly dissolving into the next actual song. "Ogeechee Hymnal," for example, offers one of the album's heaviest riffs, but it's a mere appetizer before "A Horse Called Golgotha," a suitably galloping prog-metal epic that effectively conquers Mastodon's territory, and includes some astonishing guitar leads. This is a ferocious album that's not afraid to be genuinely beautiful. One of the best hard rock releases of 2009.
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playtheshovels:
y halo thar
Between the Buried & Me - The Great Misdirect
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Touch Me Im Sick:
--- Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 22 Oct 2009, 12:59 ---Would you care to tell us what that is?
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Was hoping the list of bands on the cover would be enough...
It's a compilation of great post-punk singles that Rough Trade put out in 1980. Recommended if you like post-punk in any shape, way or form.
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