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IceTyger · Joined: 07 Dec 2006

That's a lot!
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108 · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:52 am

Rud31 · forum ruler of Iraq Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: SanAnTex

EDIT: Can't get FTP to work please delete this post.
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THERE ARE DEFINITELY WORSE VIDEO GAME PODCASTS

dmauro · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Broker

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Dust, an alarm clock, pennies, Black Pus II.

(one of these items is not actually on my record player)

Focus · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I need to download that Black Pus business. Which is going on right now.
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remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

I've been listening to lots of Venetian Snares. At least once or twice a year I'll go through a phase of listening to VSnares almost exclusively. Right now it is, of course, this year's Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms (favorite track: "Vache" (though the sample there doesn't quite get to the awesome drum machine fury)), as well as last year's follow-up to Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (favorite track: " Második Galamb"), Meathole (favorite track at the moment: "Szycag"). Admittedly I don't pay much attention to drum 'n' bass or any other beat-oriented electronic music (excepting hip-hop) these days, but Aaron Funk still satisfies.
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Breakcore is the shit. Listen to some DJ/rupture.

remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

Yeah, I used to be pretty much obsessed with all kinds of hardcore breakbeats from jungle to dark/techstep. Started with all the obvious '90s drum 'n' bass like Roni Size/Reprazent and DJ Hype, then traced back to the breakbeat hardcore techno where jungle and (happy) hardcore split the form into two distinct evolutions. Quickly moved forward through some classics like Adam F's "Circles", Reprazent's New Forms, Goldie's Timeless album, and early Photek to the more current (in the late '90s and early '00s) sounds of techstep: Ed Rush + Optical, Dom + Roland, Konflict (aka Kemal + Rob Data), Tech Itch, etc. I was lucky enough to catch a few shows (yeah, OK, raves (but then most of the worst of that contingent stayed away from the d'n'b parties)) around the peak of that era: DJ Dara was one of my favorites.

After 2002 I pretty much stopped listening altogether (grew sick to death of the genre obsession of the electronic music scene) and haven't kept up with releases, but I guess that was about that time that techstep and all that fell off anyway. Venetian Snares recaptures that vibe wonderfully, though, and then some, so, hey.

I will check out this DJ/Rupture.
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rabite gets whacked! · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

warning: DJ/Rupture, while decent, is massively overhipped, basically being popular because he extended the Timbaland tabla formula on a mixtape Pitchfork liked. I personally prefer DJ Olive's Bodega, if you want to stick within that theAgriculture collective.

Also, I'm uploading one of my favorite tracks I've found this year, which is Phonophani's "Lavenderloops" off their 2001 Genetic Engineering. Beautiful pastoral off-kilter electronics.

EDIT: here it is.

EDIT2: Because I just saw it and it's very nice and possibly musically familiar, here's a boards of canada video too.

another coma · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:23 am

man it is so good

(so's their newest, too. how does buzzo keep writing good music like that?)
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EmX · banned Joined: 05 Dec 2006

The new Venetian Snares is one of the most irritating albums I've ever heard. It's also one of the worst-titled albums in existence. Do they have anything that isn't as dumb?

I just listened to Boris' Flood. I enjoyed it a lot, but I think they could've done just as well if they pared the album down by a 1/3rd or so. I understand the need for a buildup, but when it takes 10-15min to get to the payoffs it's a little too fatiguing to just pull out and listen to. It just doesn't make economical use of the musical content on the album. Probably my least favorite Boris.

sawtooth · heh Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: flashback

Venetian Snares albums worth listening to:

Rossz Csillag Allat Született (beautiful)
Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole (gabber)
Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (beepy circuit-bent type stuff )
And the Chocolate Wheelchair album is a stand-in for "everything else" (novelty breakcore with smatterings of everything/albums about beating children)

Also speaking of novelty breakcore everyone listen to Doormouse. I haven't listened to his "I <3 Kraftwerk" EP yet, but his others in the series are fairly solid. I <3 Polka is my favorite.
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parkbench · Joined: 12 Dec 2006

haha, kraftwerk:

i don't know what to do
what to do (doot doo doo)
i need a rendezvous
a rendezvous (doot doo doo)

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Max Cola · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Location: a shotgun shack

I'm mostly listening to Talking Heads a lot. In fact I am listening to Psycho Killer right now!
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<3 this thread.
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And I totally didn't notice the awesome banner he has on his page:

He's a hero.
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SplashBeats · Guest

I don't listen to Flood that often, honestly. There's plenty of Boris that doesn't demand that kind of attention! It just comes off as one of the most soulful, heartfelt records I've ever heard. Flood II reminds me of the emotional rawness of songs like Maggot Brain, and that's something I can get behind.

Baron Patsy · whiny, oversensitive, socially awkward Joined: 05 Dec 2006

blind guardian and sabaton all day with some finntroll sprinkled in for good measure

god i love finntroll

Gironika · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Dragon Range

I've Girls Compilation Album 1 - Regret.

Do I miss important songs if I only listen to the compilation albums?
Missing out on something like Mell's "Red Fraction" would be a shame, so ... any I've love around?
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remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

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remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

Tonight's listening, an indisputable classic:

(and some Radiohead! (for the first time in more than three years, actually.))
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chompers po pable · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

currently soaken' en some beck--banjo stories. very dylan. weird, though not surprising. interesting.

PianoMap · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia

Currently bustin' out a Mr. Children-It's A Wonderful World/The Decemberists-Castaways and Cutouts/Modest Mouse-This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About megaplaylist.
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The Books are fucking wonderful at 3:43 AM.

remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

"Love and Anger" is really not my favorite Kate Bush song, but damn, these lyrics:

It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me.
It's so deep I don't think that I can speak about it.
It could take me all of my life,
But it would only take a moment to

Tell you what I'm feeling,
But I don't know if I'm ready yet.
You come walking into this room
Like you're walking into my arms.
What would I do without you?

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

If you can't tell your sister,
If you can't tell a priest,
'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it
To anyone,
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart

To let go of these feelings
Like a bell to a Southerly wind?
We could be like two strings beating,
Speaking in sympathy...
What would we do without you?
Two strings speak in sympathy.

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

We're building a house of the future together.
(What would we do without you?)

Well, if it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it,
Just remember to reach out and touch the past and the future.
Well, if it's so deep you don't think you can speak about it,
Don't ever think that you can't change the past and the future.
You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see--someone will come to help you.
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chompers po pable · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

do you mean like in a "wow these are good" way?

remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

Pretty much, yeah.
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remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

antitype loves pop music, too.

This is one of my top five records of the year!

http://www.asobiseksu.com/
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remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

Pretty video for Asobi Seksu's "Thursday" (possibly the most wonderful track on the album): http://www.asobiseksu.com/thursday_video.html
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108 · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:49 am

BAZRA
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remote · Joined: 11 Dec 2006

They seem pretty fun, though I thought you might be linking to something Vajra-related for a moment!

Tim, do you still want to set me up with that FTP? I really think you'd appreciate Asobi Seksu! (Yeah, I'm a little obsessed right now.)

I wonder what kind of following they have in Japan.
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108 · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 7:15 am