Music Discussion

[RedRaven]

@ Art - Way back near the start of this thread you mentioned a liking of electronica.Just wondered if you had heard of Autechre and Boards of Canada ? They are the 2 that I keep going back to.

Autechre were a big influence for me when I was involved in making music a few years back.

There is a fair selection of both on youtube but not all have actual videos to the tracks.

[Art Blade]

not heard of them, will take a look mate, cheers :)

[Art Blade]

hahaha, nice one, I really didn't expect that!  ;D

Here's what I think is worth a look, a 720p HD version of

Autechre: Gantz Graf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyJfHU4GoOQ&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyJfHU4GoOQ

This reminds me of FAT (Foetus Art Terrorism)  -- nothing to do with me, hehe -- and perhaps some Front242 with a tad of Kraftwerk, in a joint deaf jam nervous drug-induced breakdown. I haven't seen or heard anything quite like that before, hahaha  ;D

The music video for "Gantz Graf" reached a cult status in underground computer-generated imagery art circles. The video features an abstract object (or an agglomeration of objects) perfectly synchronized to the sounds in the music as it morphs, pulsates, shakes, and finally dissolves. The visuals contain the same amount of richness and detail as the soundtrack does, having a visual counterpart to every little sound or frequency range in the song. Alex Rutterford (who had previously created an unofficial video for the Tri Repetae track "Eutow" as part of a Channel 4 music programme in 2001) claims the idea for the "Gantz Graf" video came during one of his LSD trips.

Just so you know what FAT is (I got the 12" with exactly that same cover), here take a look at "calamity crash"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsgU1BsoDA&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsgU1BsoDA

and Front242 "Headhunter" (by the way, hehe, funny video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPpUFBVSyWs&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPpUFBVSyWs

[Art Blade]

Boards of Canada was way way softer, nice actually. Some very nice vids, too :)

dayvan cowboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8

Music is Math
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bKe_Zgk4o&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bKe_Zgk4o

nice tip, Red  :) :-X

[mandru]

man, one more from them (I don't even know those instruments)

Tommy plays two instruments and then he blended those two recordings. Excellent.

The smaller instrument is a mandolin the larger instrument is another member of the mandolin family, the mandola. Both of these and the other members of the mandolin family though double stringed. Each pair of strings double the note played the same as a 12 string guitar does. The mandolin family instruments are strummed or plucked and compare directly in size and tuning to the instruments in the violin, viola and cello family.

A mandolin is tuned the same as a violin. The mandola is tuned the same as the violin's larger relative the viola and the even larger mandocello is a parallel of the cello  and while there was a double bass version of the mandolin family it was viewed as a novelty and never really caught on well enough to ever have a name stick to it. The bass mandolin was introduced to complete a mandolin based orchestra but the double string arrangement of that big honker slapped each other and rattled so much that it quickly went out of favor and an upright bass was used instead.

For real weirdness the banjo also falls somewhere into this stringed arms race with the progressively smaller banjola (now called alto banjos if any still exist) and the banjolin but I don't want to go there.  ???

[Art Blade]

Hehe, I didn't realise those were mandolins. I've seen some live, long ago :) Thanks for the detailed info, mandru.

Those guys are great, and I liked that monster guitar of Dominic Frasca :)

[RedRaven]

Boards of Canada are very chilled, good lazy sunday music. Autechre's earlier stuff is about as main-stream as they ever got, then it just kept getting darker and weirder, they use alot of different tech from high end computer software down to cut & splice with tape. Some of their tracks are master pieces, some very clever stuff going on, many layers of sound flowing in, out and through each other. They did a couple of good remixes of some Tortoise tracks.
Its because of electronica like that I started getting into old jazz.

Glad you found it interesting ;D

[Art Blade]

Since you came up with this topic, we've been through quite a bit of sound, a rather versatile choice of music we've got here, and quite a journey to get through all of it  :) :-X

[RedRaven]

 A great philosopher once said -

Without Music life would be an error

I agree ;D

[Art Blade]

quoting Nietzsche, are we :)

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

- Bill Cosby.

[RedRaven]

This is the pinnacle of my period as a 'musician', its from all the way back in 2002.

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Enjoy.

[Art Blade]

That is really nice  :-X Chillax mode & endless-loop:  ON/OFF 

[mandru]

Very cool RedRaven. I like it! 8)  :-X

[Ricamundo]

Professionally done vid RR, nice. :-X

Speaking of chillaxing type music, any fans of...

David Sylvian
Ian Brown
Zero 7
Morcheeba
No-Man

or more mainstream stuff, like Depeche Mode, Elbow, Doves, Editors.

[Art Blade]

Cheers :)

Apart from Depeche Mode (not exactly my cup of tea, though) I know none of those bands. I'll try to find some of them on youtube :)

[JRD]

Morcheeba is great... have all their albums!  :-X

And Red... great vid... very cool indeed!!  8)

[JRD]

Been listening to the Last King of Scotland soundtrack... great film, great soundtrack

Here are a couple of my favousites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlJVjupTYa4&feature=PlayList&p=928CDBEE0F4C81B8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

This one is an old Janis Joplin song, Me and Bobby McGee in an african accent... beautyfull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P25NeHCuFPo&feature=related

[Art Blade]

 :-X

[RedRaven]

Alexey Omelchuk did the soundtrack for Stalker Call of Pripyat, I got it as a bonus disc when I got the game. Most of the track are on youtube but they are audio only.
Very atmospheric in the game, good on its own too ;D

[Art Blade]

In CS, I liked the occasional guitar play, which was part of the idle animations, of fellow stalkers and other people. Especially when gathering around camp fires... :)

[RedRaven]

Some of the mods change what they play on the acoustic guitars around campfires. Best one I heard was an acoustic rendition of some early Metallica.

It would be good to see more up & coming talented musician's involved in the gaming industry in the same way as Actors have by voicing characters.

[deadman1]

I have just rediscovered the music from Mike Oldfield, omg can he play guitar. Here´s a few samples for you:

Women of Ireland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D2nxNC5n9I

Moonlight shadow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8d3Shlfrg

Quicksilver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPFkUfe7k9c

And ofcourse one can´t forget about the monumental Tubular bells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXPgbWGbG8

[Art Blade]

 ;D

memories of the 80s kicking in  :)

[fragger]

He was more 70's, wasn't he?

Well, Tubular Bells was at least...

[Art Blade]

now you may slap me around with a large trout: I immediately connected his name with one of many remakes of his tune from Exorcist, tubular bells, which was popular among some friends of mine in the 80s. Well, mainly because my 70s music memories, in form of vinyl, is comprised of a lot of funk and soul, else some of the just then evolving "disco," Mike didn't quite fit in ;)