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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
scarred:
It's alternately house-y, dubstep-y, and Fuck Buttons-y. (Fuck Buttons do a remix, y'see.)
KvP:
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--- Quote from: Resident Advisor ---The latest single from Sweden's Fever Ray comes loaded with a heap of remixes by names needing no introduction here: Troxler, Dettmann and Martyn among them. Karin Anderssen's compositions, less clubby than her work in The Knife but more melodically developed, would seem ready made for reworks, full of spare, moody electronics and tantalizing texture. Oh, and that voice, that instantly recognizable voice, serpentine, witchlike, giving a spooky edge even to lyrics as innocuous as "I have a friend I've known since I was seven...we used to talk on the phone…we talk about love, about dishwasher tablets."
The more distinctive versions here make their mark by foregrounding the gap between Anderssen's original vocal and their own newly-added material. Martyn's dubstep jam is a prime example: The vocal doesn't precisely fit, meaning you can tell right away that it's a remix, but the disjunction between voice and beats actually gives the track a bit more of an edge, in comparison to, say, Nic Chacona's take, which is straightforward dreamy-housey dance floor glitz. CSS also attempts to re-fit the entire tune, transforming it into some slow-mo cosmic funk that finds its groove once the 808 claps get flurrying, while Troxler also goes for the same glitzy minimal house as Chacona but pushes the vocal into a weirdly disorienting, arrhythmic space atop the beat.
Mr. Dettmann's on board for two takes here, ostensibly so he could have enough room to accommodate his varied interests. One is a speechless, driving minimal techno banger, and the other, called "Voice In My Head mix," is up there with Karin's own work in terms of inspired weirdness, taking nothing other than a heavily filtered vocal loop—wispy and ghostlike—and threading it across a bare and warbly beat. It pushes the envelope in its own way, as do Crookers, whose skittery, hyperactive electro workout takes flight once it sheds a series of repetitive vocal loops. (It subsequently lifts off into several minutes of what sounds like a rotary phone dogfighting a demonic air horn.) Ultimately, these two versions are the EP's standout WTF? moments, reflecting Fever Ray's own taste for novel, unpredictable productions.
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gospel:
Audie Darling - Full Of Ghosts
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--- Quote from: thisheartwillburnrightout ---So what is Audie’s niche in this music world? Well, a voice that is as articulate and emotive as any signed artist I’m aware of. Strong roots music that will definitely find it’s place in alt country circles. An amazing slew of production and musicianship should allow this album to be critically acclaimed and while we aren’t necessarily hearing an ambitious attempt to redefine the genre, it’s clear that Audie deserves some recognition at the table.
When the title track, “Full of Ghosts”, completed the stream I was left wondering how certain people go so long without being heard. My hope is that our listening pathology will change soon and artists like this will have the chance to really give something to consumers. Something with integrity, musicianship and a strong reminder of where we all came from. Home.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg with Beck – IRM
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--- Quote ---Scheduled for release January 26, IRM is, says Gainsbourg, the result of trying “very different things.” The songs, she adds, “are all in different styles but one proper album.” Following the release of the monotone, electronica/industrial workout of the title track last month, Gainsbourg and Beck join voices for new single “Heaven Can Wait”, a slithering, piano-punctuated ditty that comes alive in a completely surreal video (watch it after the jump).
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Pascal Babare – Thunderclap Spring
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--- Quote from: hangout.altsounds ---Pascal Babare was born in southern Australia, the son of a choral singer and a composer. His mother can only hear in one ear and sings like an angel; his father was the first ex-gangster to join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Raised in and out of ashrams on a diet of Pet Sounds and droning chant, Pascal cared for his first mentor, a camel named Jinglebaba, while listening to 2-Pac and devising uniquely horrific ways to kill insects. Wondering what it all meant, he wrote to Brian Wilson, who wrote back, telling him to focus on the heart’s vibrations. He keeps the letter close to this day.
A drummer in his pre-teens, Pascal picked up other instruments as his school days dwindled, first with others and then alone. So the banging was expanded with guitars, harmoniums, birds and thighs, all finding form in sublime chunks of warm, rickety pop. By nineteen, he had written and put to tape Thunderclap Spring, his first elpee.
Self-recorded, in thick-carpeted suburbia, in thin-walled Japan, in fog-blanked London, on street corners and during carnivals, Thunderclap Spring is possessed of a a lightness and a song writing genius that belies its creator’s years. Through naïve morning ragas, ecstatic shouts and evening croons, slide guitars ride percussion slaps, loops and yelps, coming together in hooks and curves that leap and turn with words of wonder, Vikings and quiet discovery.
Thunderclap Spring is a work of intricate, wide-eyed joy, a record of sun, rain, light and shadows.
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kwintpod:
Balmorhea-Balmorhea(2007)
Great ambient. Piano and acoustic based
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Godspeed You!Black Emperor-Tiny Silver Hammers(2004)
Live recordings of motherfucker=redeemer part one and two of Yangui U.X.O.
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Geirr Tveitt-Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5(2001)
Tveitt is a Norwegian composer who lived from 1908-1981, this work is performed by Håvard Gimse on piano and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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dignan:
Leaves - The Angela Test (2005, V2 mp3 files with artwork)
My submission for "The Greatest Band You've Never Heard" honors.
Icelandic shoegaze, but with none of the "English-as-a-second-language" vibe that has made other Icy acts famous. Atmospheric, wistful, longing, lonely songs (though not bleak), with the most guitar layers you can have on an album and still legally call it "mellow." Take some Animals-era Pink Floyd, mix in some Catherine Wheel, and a tiny pinch of prog juice and you have The Angela Test. This one got a lot of play from me while riding my bike around a barren airfield in Iraq for six months last year. Every song is good, but the first is epic, with tracks #2 and 8 also kicking a disproportionate amount of boo-tay.
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