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tryptych wrote:Have to admit, Get Lucky is basically the only song I've enjoyed from DP so far.. vocoders and electro.. just not my thing. I just don't get they hype, same thing with Boards Of Canada.

Blasting out the new Filter album now, pretty overproduced and poppy.. it's like none of the songs stand out.

Also listened to Lights Out Asia - Hy-Brasil a few times in a row (sorta post rock/ambient), great stuff, probably their best so far IMO. CRIMINALLY underrated.

Lights Out Asia!

Funny, Hy-Brasil is actually my least favorite album from them. I think 2010's "In The Days Of Jupiter" is the best, but it's really hard to pick! I miss the guitar work on the new album, the guy who did it on the past albums left the band.
I'm not sure if they're criminally underrated, or just unknown. Most people who know the band also love them Although I haven't met that many people who know them to begin with...

And speaking of BOC, I have just placed my pre-order for the new album!

Black Sabbath - 13

Well, finally got to listen the new BoC.. it's, well, Boards Of Canada. Analogue bubbly synths, lo-fi aesthetics, minimalism and some subtle doom & gloom and melancholy.

It's really nice to see that this type of music is almost hitting the mainstream, total counterbalance to a lot of crap going on now, musically and otherwise, but I have to admit that BoC simply isn't that big thing for me. It's ok, but I agree with Ross that they just don't give me the spacey, even psychedelic (*gulp*) melodies and atmospheres i actually look for in ambient and electronic music.

Maybe I'll take a deeper listen when the hype has cleared

There is far too much exciting music to discover that I don't think I'm going to bother wasting my time listening to something as pedestrian as BoC.

Such as the latest tape by Dementia and Hope Trails which I am listening to.

'Tomorrows Harvest' over here too. And I just fucking love it. I'm digging every second on it, no fillers on there (though 'jaquardt causeway' seemed a bit odd at first listening) It's just classic boards, with a welcome return to the sound of their earlier work (the first comparison that came to my mind was Hi-Scores Ep)
but there are hints of geogaddi and campfire too, more production-wise I would say.'Come to dust' is like some end-titles-music of a movie that I really would like to see
But I can see, those who 'didn't get the hype' up to now will likely not so with the new one, as it's really 'more of the same' in a way.

Just bought this wonderful album from one of my favorite electronica artists Dirty Owl (aka Sleepy Town Manufacture) and spinning it in my player . . .

Environments 3
Download - LingAM (new album from these industrial/electro pioneers)
16Volt - American Porn Songs // Remixed
Front Line Assembly - Epitaph (has a FSOL sample btw somewhere there)
ZWAN - (some France acoustic live thingy)
Neither/Neither World - Invisible Angel (Neofolk, loosely related to the C93/Throbbing Gristle camp)
Death In June LJDLP - Östenbräun (dark ambient / neofolk)

After going on long periods of ambient/drone/etc. I like to cleanse my palette with extreme glitchy DSP antics, so at the moment stuff like this has been on heavy rotation:






(unfortunately can only find a crappy 240p of this last one)

It's a documentary about music, but it's damn awesome and a must-see for anyone who's interested in music history / music industry - especially rock music and some of it's spin-offs.

Directed by Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) it is a story about a studio in which literally half of All the legendary rock albums were recorded, and a story about a unique studio console constructed manually by a mad English engineer called Neve, and a story that most successfully captures 4 decades of rock music and how it should be done.

When the analog studio finally dies, Grohl buys the console and makes something Amazing - no spoilers, you gotta watch it!

Hundreds of legends appear in the film, from Fleetwood Mac to Tom Petty to Nirvana to RATM to NIN to Rick Rubin and dozens of other legendary producers and engineers.

The soundtrack of newly recorded tracks is the most beautiful ROCK album that I've heard since... I don't know... 2001...

That docu is good for anybody also interested in music tech in general.. that Neve board has been featured on so many classic albums, like Nevermind and RATM self titled. It goes into depth with the console and Reznor explains why he prefers recording on it.

Funny thing is, the place was a hole, not fancy at all. Also, Rage Against The Machine does NOT appear in the movie, there's just some short footage of the recording sessions, with their friends hanging out while they're playing (something very REAL about that). Although I'm not a fan of Foo Fighters or Dave Grohl, I'm glad HE bought the console since his love for it is quite apparent

Definitely worth the watch.

Brad Wilk (the drummer of RATM/Audioslave) appears more than a few times and talks about the board and how they picked that studio because Nevermind was recorded there - the archival shots of RATM are there also...

I'm not a fan of Foo Fighters at all too - but Dave is a wonderful character who understands the music fan and he knows just about everybody in the music business in USA, so he made a Perfect documentary.

Now there's a heap of bands I really don't like.
It's been so long since I was in a studio I've probably forgotten half that stuff. When I have money I want to build up my own mini studio though, really sick of using my computer.

Pandemonium wrote:Brad Wilk (the drummer of RATM/Audioslave) appears more than a few times

Did he? My bad then, I just remember that Morello or De La Rocha didn't appear on the film and there wasn't that much about recording the RATM. I was also kinda wishing for more Reznor because I'm really interested in how he does stuff.

BTTT, some recent listens:

The Smashing Pumpkins - all the bonus discs that came with the recent reissues from gish -> MCIS. Heavenly.
Front Line Assembly - Implode
Environments 4

now listening to The Cure live @ Roskilde 2012 from the TV, good stuff.

FSOL - Environments 2
FSOL - A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Antistatic

cant be nowhere else at the moment . . .