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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Jul 19, 2012 3:38:48 GMT -5
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Jul 20, 2012 1:26:29 GMT -5
Dusty Springfield - I Only Wanna Be With You. Possibly the greatest love song ever. By one of the greatest voices.
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Post by driftin on Jul 22, 2012 20:06:31 GMT -5
The gorgeousness is great in this one.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Jul 23, 2012 0:38:16 GMT -5
That's nice Meanwhile, down under....
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Post by driftin on Jul 23, 2012 2:03:33 GMT -5
That sounds like Australian hip-hop. Not bad but lot are my favourite hip-hop group from down under:
They know how to have fun with the genre. They use a big bag of colourful samples from cool sources (Comus, Harry Partch) in creative ways but at the same time can still keep focus on actually saying something in their verses, usually about racism, multiculturalism, integration etc.
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Post by driftin on Jul 23, 2012 2:09:16 GMT -5
But since it's 8am on a Monday I think it's time for something much noisier, to distract me from the fact it's 8am on Monday. Still hip-hop though:
One of my all time favourite songs. Absolutely pummelling. It's like a pissed off soapbox preacher spitting rhymes over 70s industrial music, remixed by an 80s shoegaze band and reinterpreted by The Bomb Squad.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Jul 23, 2012 5:00:49 GMT -5
Yeh those Full Tote Odds guys are pretty new on the scene and I dig their stuff. It's taken me almost 10 years to warm to Oz hip-hop but I'm starting to like it now. Or maybe its just getting better? Check out Hilltop Hoods, Bliss N Eso and 360.
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Post by driftin on Jul 24, 2012 17:02:23 GMT -5
There are generally only two kinds of music made by Autechre; the simpler and more melodic work of their first three albums and the more complicated, beat orientated output which followed. Their last two albums, 2010's Oversteps and Move of Ten are often seen as an about-turn back to their roots so for the sake of argument I am putting them in the first of these two categories. These are also the two camps that arguing fans place themselves in, the former usually stating the band lost their emotion and became too cerebral and clinical, while the latter's argument is they actually gained an identity in being very complex and technically obsessed as well as being more interesting to listen to. I am a big fan of all of Autechre's music, however I think their second album Amber (technically their first as Incunabula was a collection of old and unreleased songs compiled together) is their masterpiece simply because of the pleasure I get from listening to it. Electronic music often gets criticised for being cold and inhuman (unfairly in my opinion, as surely it is its raison d'ĂȘtre, to create sounds that no acoustic instrument or being can make.) Amber doesn't portray any of this iciness of timbre, despite many of the sounds being virtually unrecognisable and the structure of each of the songs being extremely precise. This is all due to the album's emphasis on the synths and the bass as opposed to the mechanical beats and even those have a hiss similar to a microphone recording of a drum instead of a computer aided sequence. This is electronic music at its most analogue. The songs vary in tone and texture, from the dark and alarming opener of 'Foil' with its mutated horns and rolling clicks, to the light and bouncy 'Slip' which is perhaps the most melodic thing Autechre have ever made, to the sombre 'Teartear' with its mournful strings and what sounds like a human voice buried under waves of effects. The highlight of the album is definitely 'Piezo' which begins with multiple layers of beats and bleeps bouncing off each other in a syncopated pattern that is very reminiscent of Autechre's much later and mathematically more intricate work (apparently 2001's Confield was conceived by giving computer sequencers and machines random instructions and seeing what the results were) but slowly the human element rises up from underneath it in the form of warm synthesisers playing a simple melody which completely takes over the second half of the song. The most striking thing about Amber is its duality. While it is clearly an electronic album, the fact that these sounds are as warm and emotional as any orchestral instrument gives it a weird but wonderful feeling. It also pairs these effusive sounds and melodies against very precise metronomes and the effect is a mix of the corporeal and the mechanical and the pleasure and emotion I get from this is unlike any other music I know, electronic or 'real'.
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Post by driftin on Jul 26, 2012 20:21:54 GMT -5
HELLO! IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Jul 26, 2012 20:51:35 GMT -5
I'm here ;D
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Jul 27, 2012 18:13:27 GMT -5
Slightly obsessed with Florence and her machine at the moment. ;D Great great great voice. She performed live on a morning TV show here in Australia when they'd just released the first single (Cover of You've Got The Love) and she was so nervous when they did a short interview afterwards. She spoke really softly and her hands were shaking. Bless. Love this video too.
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Post by onamirrorsedge on Jul 29, 2012 15:54:47 GMT -5
I like it.
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Post by driftin on Aug 4, 2012 12:07:01 GMT -5
'Temptation' and 'Ceremony' are just about two of the greatest songs ever made.
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Post by leatherface814 on Aug 8, 2012 22:22:42 GMT -5
What's up everyone? It's been a long time and I hope everyone is doing well. Right now I am listening to my favorite Hendrix song of all time, The Wind Cries Mary.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Aug 19, 2012 18:58:56 GMT -5
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