As promised, here is Relentless. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24985628/Relent.zip This was disc 2 of the 2-disc special edition of Very. And, in spite of the vanilla edition of Very remaining in print, the special edition went out of print, and the six songs from Relentless have yet to be reissued.
it's been a really good year for releases from Wu Tang members.
Ghost had Sour Soul with Badbadnotgood, Rae's Fly International Luxurious Art is great so far, Deck's putting out the new Czarface album soon, and Method Man has an album in the works.
also you could literally spend weeks going through everything DJ Screw did in his lifetime but that may be a larger scale project than you're willing to get into.
Ridin' Dirty (no relation to the Chamilionaire song which is named after it) and Don't Mess Wit' Texas are great albums.
Trying Zedd's new album out. Something tells me it's not gonna be quite as good as his last effort Clarity was but by no means bad. Liking this, though.
Okay yeah never mind he's still got it. Holy shit.
Following up on this with my second full listen on this album.
I can say without a doubt that Anton's still very impressive as a musician and as a producer, but something about True Colors isn't quite hitting the same emotional highs I get from his last effort, Clarity. This very well may be because I associate Clarity with the a-m-a-z-i-n-g live show he toured with back in 2013 that was based around the album, though I get the feeling that may not be the entirety of it. There's more of a focus on individual singles in this album, for one, which is a bit of a letdown after getting used to the last record's gorgeous transitional work. Additionally, there's a lot more focus on tight vocal work from the featured artists on this album (only one track doesn't do so, that being a collaboration with the gritty electro duo Botnek), which is of course a byproduct of his increased intent on appealing to his newfound pop audience. In and of itself this isn't really a bad thing, but it does prove to make things a little awkward and overlong when Anton lets his electronic and classical roots take the reins (the best songs on the album are quite north of the standard 3-4 minute runtime of most pop songs, with the longest and most notable of them clocking in at 7 minutes and 23 seconds).
I'm not disappointed in the album at all but I do think it could have probably benefitted from a less inherently mainstream-bound approach, as hipstery as that may sound. Clarity was great because it was an EDM album with enough pop appeal to draw in an unexpected crowd; True Colors, by comparison, feels like an earnest but uninspired attempt to please both sides.
I do think it has the capability to grow on me, though. Favorite tracks of mine include "Addicted to a Memory", "Transmission", "Straight Into the Fire", "Papercut" and "Bumble Bee".
Hey music nerds, do you know any other songs like Different Trains and Bird Concerto with Pianosong? I've noticed music with naturalistic elements is something I really like (I guess just "naturalistic music"? Whatever), no less when it includes trains and birds. I don't really have anything in mind, so I guess just throw what you know at me, please?
Hey music nerds, do you know any other songs like Different Trains and Bird Concerto with Pianosong? I've noticed music with naturalistic elements is something I really like (I guess just "naturalistic music"? Whatever), no less when it includes trains and birds. I don't really have anything in mind, so I guess just throw what you know at me, please?
Hey music nerds, do you know any other songs like Different Trains and Bird Concerto with Pianosong? I've noticed music with naturalistic elements is something I really like (I guess just "naturalistic music"? Whatever), no less when it includes trains and birds. I don't really have anything in mind, so I guess just throw what you know at me, please?
@Crystal re birdsong: Messiaen differs from what youre talking about before in that instead of using actual recordings it's more like an orchestral interpretation of birdsong. you might still be into that, and by all means give something like 'Oiseaux exotiques' a listen, but it sounds to me like you're more looking for music that incorporates field recordings. there's a fair amount of that out there. 'El Tren Fantasma' is one of those and im backing naney in calling it a rly fucking fantastic album that is worth your time
something perhaps a little less obviously connected is i'd recommend Akira kosemura's album 'Polaroid Piano'. i know you like solo piano stuff and this is a piano album, but it's a really close-in recording and you can hear all the creaks and clunks of the piano as well as some background noise and it's a really warm, natural sound
I made a post on another forum about this and it's relevant to this thread
So I had a weird train of thought a bit ago, and I posted about it on twitter so I'm just gonna copy the tweets cuz I don't feel like retyping all this.
I was thinking about something earlier.
I think that part of growing older is realizing that you're going to eventually become a defener, at least in part, and being OK with that.
EVENTUALLY that style is gonna be passe and music like that won't be popular anymore. Drake will eventually be 40.
And I think at that point the audience has two options, either you move on and recognize that whatever new stuff comes out is just not gonna have that same impact to you, OR you become the dude who's buying tickets to Drake's fifth comeback tour.
And there's really no winning there, but I think it's important to acknowledge. Cuz the alternative is worse.
The alternative is you become the person who's trying to be "the cool older dude" and is like 60 and listening to Rick Ross.
No one likes that person. Older people are supposed to hate new stuff to at least a minor extent.
I only bring this up because it's kind of already happening to me.
I think the only new, popular artist that's come out in the last 5 years whose stuff I like the majority of the time is Kendrick.
and mind you, I'm only 21, but 99% of pop music is made for people in the 13-18 demographic.
Even that's pushing it, pop music's main intended audience is 14, 15, and 16 year olds.
if you're even a few months north of that you're out of the intended audience. You're "pinky ring" money.
and it leads to a weird phenomenon where you end up identifying with people who are way older than you more than people who are slightly younger
like one of my favorite albums this year so far was by Ghostface Killah who started making music before I was born.
and y'know I realize I'm mostly talking about myself there, but that experience can't be unique, can it? Maybe I'm just tired.
[I also realized after thinking about it for a bit that I also enjoy most of Tyler and Earl's stuff, plus Danny Brown's, so maybe I'm just completely full of it lmao]
Unrelated, I was in Philly yesterday (I live in PA but not anywhere near Philly) and got to sit in a museum for two hours, woo hoo.
i don't understand why old people are 'supposed' to hate new music. Or why that supposition should mean you can't listen to new music anyway and ignore the supposers.
If i find a music thing difficult to listen to and other people do not my first assumption is that either i'm not listening for the right thing, or i'm missing some context. i don't see why this approach would hold any less true for new music than for old music.
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"First Dark Ride" is unusual for a number of reasons, but if you like it, I can recommend Love's Secret Domain at the very least.
atm my rap knowledge of american rap extends to, like, three six mafia and lil b, im sure theres more than that
and im actually liking them?
(The other Jane)
http://other-atmospheres.ambient-mixer.com/dark--stormy--and-unsettling
http://other-atmospheres.ambient-mixer.com/old-castle-den
http://horror.ambient-mixer.com/stalking-vampire
http://horror.ambient-mixer.com/haunted-castle
http://horror.ambient-mixer.com/haunted-forest---night
http://horror.ambient-mixer.com/gothic-ambience
something perhaps a little less obviously connected is i'd recommend Akira kosemura's album 'Polaroid Piano'. i know you like solo piano stuff and this is a piano album, but it's a really close-in recording and you can hear all the creaks and clunks of the piano as well as some background noise and it's a really warm, natural sound
If i find a music thing difficult to listen to and other people do not my first assumption is that either i'm not listening for the right thing, or i'm missing some context. i don't see why this approach would hold any less true for new music than for old music.