Just out on Planet Mu. Pre-emptively: I realize that cut-up R&B vocal samples are going to be jeered by some just because, and that's fine. I don't know too much about "proper" R&B and I don't know all that much about the dubstep continuum either, but this record is really flooring me. The vocal samples are employed in a way that makes them feel more functional/architectural than "mood-enhancing" or evocative of some sadness/darkness or whatever, and his drum programming is phenomenal. The tracks bounce and groove and feel wonderfully explosive, and there's an underlying sense of melodicism without it being overtly "melodic" in its feel. I'd like to know who else is feeling this (or not), and what else is out there that scratches the same itch.
― Clarke B., Sunday, 14 August 2011 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
So the Machinedrum album is -after the first listen - really great. Not surprising because I love Sepalcure, to whom similarities do abound, but in a way that is unrestrained in a really stimulating and impressive way. I mean, in reading this incredibly OffTM post:
it's weird, these machinedrum tracks sound as sterile as i remember his '04 glitch-hop stuff sounding, but the sepalcure records are really lush. must be due to the other guy.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, July 20, 2011 1:26 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I can't help but disagree because this album, compared with samples of this make it somewhat apparent that if anything MD is behind the lush, melodic washes and vocal treatments that make Sepalcure tracks so beautiful. I can't be sure, but I feel like maybe what the other guy is effectually doing is bringing down the manic quality of MD into something more restrained, into more a more basic dubstep/ r'n b-ish form (not a criticism!). This is like Sepalcure unbounded, taking its lush quality and letting it spread its wings outside its typically pared down bounds so as to just go fucking nuts, but also be very gentle (it's ridiculous how delicate this album sounds given how fast and wild the rhythms are). My only complaint is that it doesn't flow between tracks especially well, in that it sounds more like a compilation; but that's ultimately insignificant, especially when the tracks are so damn good.
― qpә (EDB), Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― qpә (EDB), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haven't heard this but his last one way2up or whatever was really nice. He is navigating the post-glitch landscape well. Bidnezz was pretty unlistenable to me so I had figured he was cooked.
― lol is not enough (blank), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
He killed at Decibel Fest several years back. Strictly balls-out dancehall. I usually hate that kind of "look it's urban music but fucked up" thing. It was vicious, tho.
― lol is not enough (blank), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would also like to challop that he is better and less boring than Jimmy Edgar.
― lol is not enough (blank), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Given that Jimmy Edgar is generally not good and consistently boring, I absolve you of all challoping.
― qpә (EDB), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I listened to this album and don't remember a thing about it.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 14 August 2011 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
really like u don't survive and the track that comes after it. those are the two that have stuck in my head thus far.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Machine Drum: Want To 1 2
― 50000000 elves (blank), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nick, those are two standouts for sure... Come1 is the one you're thinking of. I love that little descending three-note echo guitar part that comes in after a few minutes.
― Clarke B., Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok, that track is really nice
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i thought it was just me but this thread keeps repopping up so i feel i should retry it
― fauxmarc, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
just hearing this now, but it does remind me a little of sepalcure (but not as pretty, or as good as dance music) and faltydl. my first impression is that a lot of it is too busy to be as fast as it is, but I guess that's no than imo
― Dominique, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah Come1 is the highlight, waiting for someone to drop that at the perfect moment in a set
― Dare, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
at first i was like "oh hell no" because it's based on a rhythm i've been meaning to make into a dance track for years (happens to be identical to a certain bass drum pattern in new orleans brass band music), but he did a great job with it. i like the jazzy live drums and the way he breaks up the pattern when the backbeat comes in.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like this IDM
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
in fact I would go so far as to say I prefer this IDM to the real thing (footwork?)
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think maybe part of the reason this struck me as well as it did was because I didn't approach it as dance music, or IDM, or footwork, or whatever, because its not really any of those things. It's either too zany or too soft or too hard; to my (not incredibly erudite) ears it sounds unlike anything else. It conspicuously uses elements of other things, but distanced enough from pastiche or self-conscious referentiality or eccentricity. Think I'll pop it in in a bit, actually.
― qpә (EDB), Monday, 15 August 2011 23:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
which parts did you think were too zany?
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is the clear standout track IMO
though on a track-by-track basis i'd say "room(s)" is a much more pleasant proposition than dj diamond's "flight muzik", i don't think there's anything quite as good as this on "room(s)"
sounds like 4 hero collaborating with dj assault
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Now U Know tha Deal 4 Real" is the one that burrowed furthest into my brain first for sure. I wouldn't expect that vocal sample and that little Tri Repetae melody to fit together so snugly, but they do, and I like that there's a little more space in this track than in some of the other busier ones.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
xposts: well, Zany is a bad word, for whoch I still can't think of something better. I think I mean to say the way the rhythms works; i.e. that they're really fast but in a way that's surprisingly not intense. I guess.
― qpә (EDB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
It feels to me like the drums are relatively low in the mix, which may contribute to them not feeling intense or as if they're carrying or are the focal point of the tracks. Rolling rather than drilling. I think the music is sometimes so lush and enveloping that the drum programming feels like it's buoying things up rather than driving them.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 16 August 2011 03:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I’m glad Machinedrum did that service of showing people who weren’t quite ready to get ‘real’ footwork that it’s ideas can be watered down into a sugary, acceptable and beautifully poppy form."
^FACT interview w/ Mike Paradinas yesterday
lol
― 'what's puzzling you' is the name of my dog (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 06:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Don't know much about either juke or Machinedrum's previous stuff but I like this record a lot.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
he put out this record, right? ha.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing...
― qpә (EDB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maybe he was tongue-in-cheekily pre-empting that sort of super-predictable dis' of the record?
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah he's definitely in sarcastic priest from Father Ted mode, I just thought it was funny
― 'what's puzzling you' is the name of my dog (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love it.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
really loving these tracks right now
so ravey, so junglist
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
"come1" seems to sample "going back to my roots" by richie havens?
this is one of the first IDM-type albums in a long-ass time that it's occurred to me many of the songs could/should have been at least two minutes longer
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
"GBYE" is exhilarating... I love the lack of restraint on this record. I've also wished for some of the tracks to go on longer, but I like the breakneck furious rush of it all.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 30 August 2011 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
This album is so JOYOUS. It's inspiring...
― Clarke B., Monday, 12 September 2011 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Come1: best song of 2011?
― EDB, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
excellent record. only complaint is there are (few) moments that remind me of bibio
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
new ep out, "nastyfuckk"
it's good.
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
really surprised I didn't end up trolling this thread
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Machinedrum hardly seems notable enough to merit trolling.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
and that's probably why i didn't
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
This guy makes great music, but he really does look like a tit.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
^^^^^ new board description
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:04 (7 months ago) Permalink