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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
onewheelwizzard:
Holy crap this is good. Broadway Project makes music situated somewhere between post-rock and trip-hop, and it is really, really cool to listen to how he does it. These albums make for some pretty deep listening.
Get this if you've enjoyed any of the music by DJ Shadow, Trifonic, Bitcrush, God is an Astronaut, DJ Krush, Kid Beyond, or Pretty Lights that has gone up on this thread over the past while.
(Also, I upped the 3rd album, In Finite, a while ago, it should be a few pages back. It might actually be my favorite to tell the truth but the first one just kinda blew my mind a little bit so I decided to put the others up too.)
Broadway Project - Compassion
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Sample based music, or at least that which samples other people's music seems to have reached a bit of an impasse these days. Confined either to the rarified post modern collisions dreamt up by the likes of John Oswald, the dancefloor ironies of the Ninja Tune crowd or the abstractions of Matmos et althe overall impression is of sometimes clever but ultimately cold navel gazing exercises.
The Broadway Project (aka Dan Berridge) has a different idea; take a few of your favourite records,cut them up alittle and then play lots of bits of them together. No post modernist agenda (save a few political references to Human Rights issues), and some of the records are pretty well known, almost iconic (Brian Eno, 10cc, Alice Coltrane, Harold Budd, Nick Drake).
Compassion (originally released last year and now reissued with extra tracks culled from earlier singles) is little short of a masterpiece. Though Berridge's approach seems casual, his results are pure alchemy. Either he's very lucky, or he's not at all casual and spends hours and hours in a darkened bedroom hunched over his PC, timestretching, pitchshifting and all the rest of it. Who knows, and really it doesn't matter.
So what does it sound like ? It's complex, deeply atmospheric, sometimes dark but deliriously beautiful throughout. Even when his sources are instantly recognisable (Eno, 10cc)or more esoteric (Spirit, Stomu Yamashta) Berridge's handling of them produces something new; there's a real sense that he loves and respects the material he's dealing with, and more importantly he's heard a way of re-presenting it.
Often powered by downtempo grooves, Berridge spins plangent electric pianos, big cinematic strings, hysterical guitar rockisms and spoken word into a dense, heady brew that makes most sample based music seem stifling, impersonal and irrelevant.
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Broadway Project - The Vessel
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Dan Berridge’s darkly magnificent sampledelica gets a new twist, courtesy of the vocals of Richard Palmer. Vessel’s brooding, melancholic swirl will appeal to those swayed by the grainy melodramas of Portishead, though Berridge’s sonic alchemy and Palmer’s keening vocal acrobatics resist comparison to anyone else. Sometimes the material seems too insubstantial to take the emotional weight that Palmer and Berridge laden it with, but for the most part their opulent, romantic noise is as emotionally compelling as ever.
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valley_parade:
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Kinda shoegazey-pop, pretty rocking at times. Snagged an 8.4 from Pitchfork.
--- Quote from: p4k ---What distinguishes POBPAH from the rest of their modern peers is a sense of craft located in the sweet spot between wilfull amateurism masking incompetence and not gumming things up with bells and whistles. It's immediate and substantial, but initially, it can seem distracting that the band is built more for speed than muscle. Yet these aren't songs that need anchors-- as much as Alex Naidus' bass plays an integral role in pushing everything forward, he's more likely to contribute melodic counterpoint than low end. Kip Berman's voice is appropriately unaffected, working in melodies that almost feel like 45-degree angles-- exact, acute, and just right. Keyboardist Peggy Wang-East doesn't harmonize in a traditional sense with Berman very often, but particularly on "Young Adult Friction", her vocals are a hook in themselves, taking an already strong chorus to a higher plateau.
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ImRonBurgundy?:
--- Quote from: pat101 on 20 Feb 2009, 10:51 ---Really? Shit, I'll re-up when I'm at home.
pt. 1 or 2 or both?
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Nevermind, it seems to be working now.
ALoveSupreme:
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devotchka post
--- Quote ---NPR.org, May 16, 2008 - Frontman Nick Urata is the father of this eight-piece band.
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woah, wait, they play as an 8 piece now!? I saw them only as a four piece. I will have to catch them live again, it has been a while I guess, I would love to see them with full instrumentation!
meanwhile:
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows (2009)
Oh hell yes. If you aren't familiar with them, Bell Orchestre plays amazing instrumental music, I always enjoy them no matter what kind of mood I'm in. Made up of members from Arcade Fire (or something like that), I think they're much better than AF, but that's just me.
sample
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Ifyky7er0 (from their previous album)
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