As good as Getting Me Down? Maybe... I know what I'm playing at my Halloween party though...
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Thursday, 20 September 2012 13:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
It's a good song
― van smack, Thursday, 20 September 2012 13:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
naw, not as good as "Getting Me Down". love how he built the whole EP around "How Many Mics" tho
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 September 2012 17:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
Waht's How Many Mics?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 21 September 2012 08:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+mics
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, 21 September 2012 09:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
oh you. I'm at work
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 21 September 2012 09:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
For voice-overs you only need one at a time. At most, you can have a handful so you can choose different mics for different voices or applications.
The RE20 is good. I would supplement that with something like a Studio Projects C1.
― suare, Friday, 21 September 2012 09:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
uh huh
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 21 September 2012 09:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, 21 September 2012 09:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't get this.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 21 September 2012 09:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
fair to say i like this about a hundred times more than getting me down
it's pretty alright
― r|t|c, Friday, 21 September 2012 09:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
Blawan tracks tend to follow a very similar formula with that mm-tss mm-tss beat and manipulated vocal samples, but it's such a great formula I really don't care. Somehow this sounds like a completely different kind of track to GMD despite this.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 21 September 2012 10:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
really quite impressive sound design, i said to myself while fashioning a noose
― r|t|c, Friday, 21 September 2012 11:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
track of the year maybe? sounds to my ears like some lost post punk gem jacked right up for the 21st century.
― stirmonster, Friday, 21 September 2012 11:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah i can kinda get down with that reading actually
― r|t|c, Friday, 21 September 2012 12:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
There's definitely an industrial techno thing going on in there. No wonder the Quietus boys are all over this ATM.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 21 September 2012 13:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
haha way to put me off this.
― Tim F, Friday, 21 September 2012 13:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
oh but it's just an undertone. i do hear some crunchy Perc-ish qualities to it.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 21 September 2012 13:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
No I meant Quietus.
― Tim F, Friday, 21 September 2012 13:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
what's this sample from, incidentally?
i don't think it's as good as "getting me down"
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 September 2012 15:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
Are horror-shrieks a thing in dance music these days? There's a track on the Talabot album that has them.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 21 September 2012 15:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
how many mics? or another sample?
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 September 2012 15:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
this track is only kind of okay imo, not as good as "getting me down"
rev can you post the other tracks off the EP that sample how many mics
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 September 2012 15:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
well this one is obvious. Not sure about the other two tracks
― Number None, Friday, 21 September 2012 16:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
i like that a lot
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 September 2012 16:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
this stuff seems kinda burial-ish to me but way better
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 September 2012 16:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
this sounds like something on m_nus circa 2006
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 21 September 2012 16:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
Getting me Down may be the most overrated track of the last few years. Which is unfortunate, since Blawan is mostly excellent, as here.
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Friday, 21 September 2012 16:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
i find "getting me down" far more effective than impressive if that makes sense. like i'm not in any way awed by it but it WORKS
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 September 2012 16:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think I'm awed by its effectiveness really. It's such a limited number of very basic elements but as Ronan says it really does WORK and extremely well might I add.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Saturday, 22 September 2012 08:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
Sorry, lex not Ronan
on facebook pipecock said something to the effect that this is the biggest bullshit he's ever heard
not sure why he's hating on it so much
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
LOL
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
Late great are you being faux-naïf or...
― Tim F, Saturday, 22 September 2012 10:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
didn't like 'getting me down' at all...kinda love this though.
― tpp, Saturday, 22 September 2012 10:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
about pipecock?
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 11:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
i mean i know he know he has his furrow he likes to plow, but i don't see why this inspired enough bile to merit a post on facebook
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 12:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
personally i find this music hard to dance to and a little monotonous over the course of an entire track although it has a cool vibe
oh is he mad that he used a moodymann sample for his last big hit?
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 12:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
What do pipecocks do what pipecocks do? Nobody will ever know.
In any case, I think his vitriol is as solid an endorsement as I need.
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 22 September 2012 15:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
Also, part of my embitterment about the widespread getting me down love is that THIS is clearly the far superior 90s rnb rework jammm:
http://soupofturtles.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/2012-07-19-23-41-04.jpg?w=512&h=682
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
Hahaha, wrong link!
I mean this:
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
what kind of person is friends with pipecock on facebook
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 22 September 2012 17:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
the george fitzgerald one is fine but i can't think of a context in which i wouldn't just want the original instead
i can't really tell how "getting me down" and this one are so different that people can hate one/love the other
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 17:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
it's like, blawan template + different sample, that's it
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 17:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah I'm feeling this, especially for that sort of springy/boingy sound that runs right through it.
― Grimes, Shoots & Leaves (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 22 September 2012 18:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
what kind of person is friends of friends with pipecock on facebook ;-)
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 19:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
i find it easy to dance to "getting me down" and difficult to dance to this new one but i'm not a musicologist so i can't break down the difference for you.
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 20:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
this track is great
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Saturday, 22 September 2012 20:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
this one's all a bit furrowed-brow and closed-off where "Getting Me Down" was open and joyous and that makes all the difference. I think I like this track in concept but it doesn't quite work as a practical thing.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 September 2012 20:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
It's furrowed-brow in a way that I can get with, like it pulls me into the mood it's trying to create rather than keeping me at a distance from it, if that makes any sense.
― Grimes, Shoots & Leaves (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 22 September 2012 20:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
sure, but I have the opposite reaction.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 September 2012 20:48 (7 months ago) Permalink
am i the only one that can't dance to it
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 20:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
I'd prob leave the dancefloor if it came on
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 September 2012 21:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
there's something about
um
i want to say or agree that the beat in "getting me down" somehow gets more open after the first beat, whereas the new one the beat just bears down even further after the first beat
it's like in getting me down the 2-3-4 gets increasingly syncopated while the 2-3-4 sounds squashed down in the new one
also does anyone else find blawan's tracks annoyingly painful to mix?
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 21:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
this is my favorite blawan track
perfect mix of syncopation and stomp imo
but then it's not 100% blawan either
you know after relistening to both a bunch of times, i think i couldn't have described more clearly what *i hear* as the difference
he open up a bunch of space between the 2 and 3 beat in "getting me down", sometimes dropping the 3rd beat altogether. opens up a bunch of space. whereas in "why they hide they bodies" he just bears down on the 2-3-4 and it sounds rushed.
not that i don't like "why they hide they bodies", i just think it's a step-less-danceable from "peaches (melting flesh)" which did a similar trick, but it is very very catchy
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
"peaches" has the same trick where he delays the third beat to give it swing
he does do a similar thing on "why they hide my bodies" but it's with the vocal sample, the kickdrum to me just sounds like a gradually accelerating straight stomp, i guess there is some swing in the form of those offset lino squeak noises under the beat but its kinda just BANG BANG BANG for six minutes, bit much imo
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
i have trouble counting the beat as anything other than one-and-two-AND-one-and-two-AND-one-and-two-AND and i think that sounds cramped (i guess it is probably claustrophobic in a shallow grave under a garage)
― the late great, Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
― stirmonster, Friday, September 21, 2012 12:18 PM (Yesterday)
there is a bit of implog in this
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
His stuff is kind of hard to mix, yeah. He's got kind of a unique rhythmic style to his tracks that I can't quite put my finger on. The only tracks of his I ever play out tho are "Getting Me Down" and this edit of "Lavender" that Brainwasher made.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 September 2012 23:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
"Lavender" is def easier to mix than GMD or Bodies tho.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 September 2012 23:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
gonna reiterate, this sounds like m_nus from 5/6 year ago. it's incredibly rote. can't even see why it merits a mention.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 22 September 2012 23:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
his stuff is hard to mix because it runs off-beat and the parts wander
― the late great, Sunday, 23 September 2012 00:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
i think this and "getting me down" were perfectly constructed for mixing with their extended beat intros before the actual track kicks in. mixing them in and then pulling the other track out one beat before they kick in always work for me. mixing out of them is not so easy.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 23 September 2012 05:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
Rev otm about the un-fun undanceable nature of this vis-à-vis Getting Me Down
― lex pretend, Sunday, 23 September 2012 09:39 (7 months ago) Permalink
it's (dumb) fun to the max!
― stirmonster, Sunday, 23 September 2012 13:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
is it the bleeps of the 10s or the jump up
― the late great, Sunday, 23 September 2012 14:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
want to start a thread called "people who blawan better than blawan"
― the late great, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
I actively dislike this record. I doubt it would be worth much discussion if it wasn't for the vocal sample, which is really annoying.
Blawan strikes me as ludicrously overrated at this stage.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:49 (7 months ago) Permalink
I'm honestly not surprised by your reaction to this Matt DC.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
xpost I dunno, that GoldFFinch tune reminds me way way more of the TEETH track from last year. It's a lot softer and than Blawan plus the video is has a vv similar aesthetic to 'Shawty'.
― bass, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 13:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
what's the TEETH track?
― the late great, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
nope, still not sick of this yet.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
The track in the op is really good.
― van smack, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't know how I missed this thread but this track is basically "One Night In NYC" meets "Nightmare" meets "Flash" and I love it to death
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 22:46 (5 months ago) Permalink
In related news (that prob won't be interesting to DJP, but nevertheless). http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?405095 - anyone going?
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:03 (5 months ago) Permalink
Under my gah-Under my gah-rage
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 31 December 2012 07:24 (4 months ago) Permalink
Blawan and Untold were remarkably techno-y on NYE. I mean, I know Blawan is basically techno, but I still think of him as being firmly in the partisans rather than bobbins camp.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:48 (4 months ago) Permalink
I kind of find it interesting that "Getting Me Down" sounds definitely post-dubstep and "WTHTBUMG" sounds definitely techno even tho they have pretty much the same beat.
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Friday, 4 January 2013 02:58 (4 months ago) Permalink
Yes, definitely. It's like this slow mutation from party-bass to grinding industrial horror noise just by tweaking a parameter. Not many people mentioned Long Distance Open Water Worker EP from earlier in 2012 which was also very weird skewed techno, if not as catchy as the other singles.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 7 January 2013 10:14 (4 months ago) Permalink
Blawan & SURGEON collab EP https://soundcloud.com/dynamic-tension/trade-sheworks005-preview
― ey, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:55 (4 months ago) Permalink
and so the circle is complete
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 10 January 2013 10:13 (4 months ago) Permalink
hooray, top 20, yay.
you know, there's a totally bonkers techno/noise/concrete thing on the b-side that sounds like Autechre or Actress trapped in a threshing machine.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 25 January 2013 15:11 (3 months ago) Permalink
http://thequietus.com/articles/11445-blawan-girl-band-cover
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:30 (3 months ago) Permalink
haha this is great
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:36 (3 months ago) Permalink
well it was great until the vocals started
more sound effects plz
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:37 (3 months ago) Permalink
can't cosign on that
― the late great, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 19:12 (3 months ago) Permalink
oh man this is so good
― plax (ico), Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:53 (2 months ago) Permalink