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[Fractilion] Experimental Update No.9/Amusing Music No.4
14 years ago
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Experimental Music Update No.9
It's hard for me to get myself to listen to anything that I don't find on discogs.com or on music labels, since that is what I seem to spend so much time doing, unearthing history one album at a time. Even on my soundcloud account I rarely even bother listening to stuff by other people because I'm too busy listening to an album. Anyway, here is stuff i did find on FA....
Title:Pixelate
User:Bittertooth
Submission Date:a year ago
Review: Wow. I feel like a total noob for not keeping up to date on Bittertooth's work. Absolutely amazing sense of rhythm in this song. On his main page he categorizes this song as Drill n Bass but I definately think it's got an IDM spin to it (IDM tends to be a hybrid of other genres anyway). This is the kind of consistency in percussion that I've spent years trying to master but to no avail. At least not in any way that seems applicable to other established genres, something Bittertooth seems very good at focusing on. I notice that every one of his songs listed on his profile has a defined genre of music. My songs don't tend to turn out that way. Having a sense of direction I think is very advantageous in terms of publicity. People get the buzz that they are looking for.
Title:727
User:Frisky1753
Submission Date:a day ago
Review Oh, Frisky. You and your fancy time signatures. Haha, If this really is in the timing of 727/4, I would have never guessed. A lot of Frisky's stuff reminds me of early Venetian Snares, particularly the Doll Doll Doll/Find Candace era. Super distorted, harsh, frantic percussion noises. Good stuff. I dig it.
Title:Voyage dans le temps
User:Sage
Submission Date:a day ago[/b]
Review: It's easy to tell in Sage's work that he is a big fan of dub techno and works by Basic Channel/Maurizio (if you haven't heard any Basic Channel or Maurizio go get all their stuff right now). I guess this isn't really experimental but I just wanted to give props to Sage for keeping the chill-beat alive.
Tite:Venomoth
User:DogCookingEggs
Submission Date:a week ago
Review: Some psychedelic shit by DogCookingEggs (recently a regular on our #ExperimentalMusic IRC. chill dude). A mix of both ambient and noise. Like, distorted ambiance (reminiscent of the works of Fennesz). Some interesting textues and noodlings. I like the voice at the end combined with the kick. An unexpected techo-y twist. I respect this artist for really going with whatever he feels like instead of sticking to any one thing (most of my stuff is like that anyway). Not to say sticking to one thing is bad either.
Amusing Music No.4
Wow. I need to stop downloading so much music. It's giving me a headache categorizing all this shit. Acid, Noise, Experimental, Classical Rock, Psychadelic Rock, Funk, Doom Metal, Grindcore, Death Metal, Black Metal, Psytrance, Detroit Techno......it's all been quite a blur.
Anyway, what should I focus my attentions here on.....maybe something people probably haven't heard of before. Alright, how about music that combines noise and fieldrecordings. Uton is an artist I found who does very colorful, tasty sound textures. Uuuuuh, also Nicholas Szczepanik is another artist who does something simmilar, but a bit more gentle/less noisy. These artists have a very organic sound to them which I've been really digging. I always think it's possible to make something organic out of electronic sounds, something I find to especially be the case in Atom Heart and Tetsu Inoue's Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance project. Lastly I'd like to point out another group that sounds very wonderfully organic, combining acoustic guitar with field recordings. That group is Tape. My favorite album by them is probably Luminarium. OK wait, I lied. I still want to mention another album. So you remember Music for Airports by Brian Eno? Remember how that was supposed to be the first in a four-part ambient series? No? Well anyway, the second in that ambient series was this wonderful collaboration between Brian Eno and Harold Budd. Very simmilar style as Tape, only instead of acoustic guitar it's Harold Budd on piano. The way the piano is recorded is very warm and smooth. Something I just get lost in every time I listen to it. Oh, the album is called Plateaux of Mirror.
I've also lately been listening to a lot of music on Pete Namlook's (predominantly) minimal techno label, titled Fax +49-69/450464. Fax has released so much amazing German techno that my head just reels in wonder at how much great electronic stuff has come out of that country. And I never even heard about any of it, except by lurking around discogs (actually I found out about it through Atom Heart, who releases his stuff on a Sublabel of Fax called Rather Interesting). So anyway, Namlook does crazy shitloads of collabs with various people. To give you an idea of how much stuff this guy has made, I will give you the total amount of albums he's done with each artist. He has made well over 23 solo albums, 21 with Move D, 13 with Atom Heart (Jet Chamber/Millenium/Subsequence), 9 with Tetsu Inoue (2350 Broadway/Shades of Orion/Time²/62 Eulengasse), 3 with Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman), 10 with Bill Laswell (Outland/Psychonavigation), 11 with Klaus Schulze, 2 with Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere), 15 approx. with Christian Thier (Lunatic/Merger/Mutation Nation/Deltraxx), and so much more that I really don't want to bother naming. So anyway, Fax has been quite the journey. Oh yeah, remember when I mentioned that Atom Heart had a sublabel on Fax called Rather Interesting? Yeah. On that label, Atom Heart has released a crazy amount of stuff as well. These Germans truely believe in being consistent, and having large quantities of it. Really, all the stuff I've been able to grab and listen to so far has been amazing. I've especially been digging Namlooks collaboration with Move D. Go check that stuff out right now if the idea of minimal techno at all interests you.
Awesome music I uploaded on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgBW7_p0xw (hard x core acid electronic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-gWiC8c0DY (super trippy but groovy techno)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqiGJ7dawJU (wtf Satanicpornocultshop why are you so weird)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYekRH2r0p0 (obscene techno by Atom Heart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9ykNCwBE0 (just some more groovy techno by Surgeon)
It's hard for me to get myself to listen to anything that I don't find on discogs.com or on music labels, since that is what I seem to spend so much time doing, unearthing history one album at a time. Even on my soundcloud account I rarely even bother listening to stuff by other people because I'm too busy listening to an album. Anyway, here is stuff i did find on FA....
Title:Pixelate
User:Bittertooth
Submission Date:a year ago
Review: Wow. I feel like a total noob for not keeping up to date on Bittertooth's work. Absolutely amazing sense of rhythm in this song. On his main page he categorizes this song as Drill n Bass but I definately think it's got an IDM spin to it (IDM tends to be a hybrid of other genres anyway). This is the kind of consistency in percussion that I've spent years trying to master but to no avail. At least not in any way that seems applicable to other established genres, something Bittertooth seems very good at focusing on. I notice that every one of his songs listed on his profile has a defined genre of music. My songs don't tend to turn out that way. Having a sense of direction I think is very advantageous in terms of publicity. People get the buzz that they are looking for.
Title:727
User:Frisky1753
Submission Date:a day ago
Review Oh, Frisky. You and your fancy time signatures. Haha, If this really is in the timing of 727/4, I would have never guessed. A lot of Frisky's stuff reminds me of early Venetian Snares, particularly the Doll Doll Doll/Find Candace era. Super distorted, harsh, frantic percussion noises. Good stuff. I dig it.
Title:Voyage dans le temps
User:Sage
Submission Date:a day ago[/b]
Review: It's easy to tell in Sage's work that he is a big fan of dub techno and works by Basic Channel/Maurizio (if you haven't heard any Basic Channel or Maurizio go get all their stuff right now). I guess this isn't really experimental but I just wanted to give props to Sage for keeping the chill-beat alive.
Tite:Venomoth
User:DogCookingEggs
Submission Date:a week ago
Review: Some psychedelic shit by DogCookingEggs (recently a regular on our #ExperimentalMusic IRC. chill dude). A mix of both ambient and noise. Like, distorted ambiance (reminiscent of the works of Fennesz). Some interesting textues and noodlings. I like the voice at the end combined with the kick. An unexpected techo-y twist. I respect this artist for really going with whatever he feels like instead of sticking to any one thing (most of my stuff is like that anyway). Not to say sticking to one thing is bad either.
Amusing Music No.4
Wow. I need to stop downloading so much music. It's giving me a headache categorizing all this shit. Acid, Noise, Experimental, Classical Rock, Psychadelic Rock, Funk, Doom Metal, Grindcore, Death Metal, Black Metal, Psytrance, Detroit Techno......it's all been quite a blur.
Anyway, what should I focus my attentions here on.....maybe something people probably haven't heard of before. Alright, how about music that combines noise and fieldrecordings. Uton is an artist I found who does very colorful, tasty sound textures. Uuuuuh, also Nicholas Szczepanik is another artist who does something simmilar, but a bit more gentle/less noisy. These artists have a very organic sound to them which I've been really digging. I always think it's possible to make something organic out of electronic sounds, something I find to especially be the case in Atom Heart and Tetsu Inoue's Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance project. Lastly I'd like to point out another group that sounds very wonderfully organic, combining acoustic guitar with field recordings. That group is Tape. My favorite album by them is probably Luminarium. OK wait, I lied. I still want to mention another album. So you remember Music for Airports by Brian Eno? Remember how that was supposed to be the first in a four-part ambient series? No? Well anyway, the second in that ambient series was this wonderful collaboration between Brian Eno and Harold Budd. Very simmilar style as Tape, only instead of acoustic guitar it's Harold Budd on piano. The way the piano is recorded is very warm and smooth. Something I just get lost in every time I listen to it. Oh, the album is called Plateaux of Mirror.
I've also lately been listening to a lot of music on Pete Namlook's (predominantly) minimal techno label, titled Fax +49-69/450464. Fax has released so much amazing German techno that my head just reels in wonder at how much great electronic stuff has come out of that country. And I never even heard about any of it, except by lurking around discogs (actually I found out about it through Atom Heart, who releases his stuff on a Sublabel of Fax called Rather Interesting). So anyway, Namlook does crazy shitloads of collabs with various people. To give you an idea of how much stuff this guy has made, I will give you the total amount of albums he's done with each artist. He has made well over 23 solo albums, 21 with Move D, 13 with Atom Heart (Jet Chamber/Millenium/Subsequence), 9 with Tetsu Inoue (2350 Broadway/Shades of Orion/Time²/62 Eulengasse), 3 with Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman), 10 with Bill Laswell (Outland/Psychonavigation), 11 with Klaus Schulze, 2 with Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere), 15 approx. with Christian Thier (Lunatic/Merger/Mutation Nation/Deltraxx), and so much more that I really don't want to bother naming. So anyway, Fax has been quite the journey. Oh yeah, remember when I mentioned that Atom Heart had a sublabel on Fax called Rather Interesting? Yeah. On that label, Atom Heart has released a crazy amount of stuff as well. These Germans truely believe in being consistent, and having large quantities of it. Really, all the stuff I've been able to grab and listen to so far has been amazing. I've especially been digging Namlooks collaboration with Move D. Go check that stuff out right now if the idea of minimal techno at all interests you.
Awesome music I uploaded on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgBW7_p0xw (hard x core acid electronic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-gWiC8c0DY (super trippy but groovy techno)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqiGJ7dawJU (wtf Satanicpornocultshop why are you so weird)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYekRH2r0p0 (obscene techno by Atom Heart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9ykNCwBE0 (just some more groovy techno by Surgeon)
