WHY THEY HIDE THEIR BODIES UNDER MY GARAGE?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL_Bbyi3ub8

As good as Getting Me Down? Maybe... I know what I'm playing at my Halloween party though...

It's a good song

naw, not as good as "Getting Me Down". love how he built the whole EP around "How Many Mics" tho

Waht's How Many Mics?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+mics

oh you. I'm at work

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.

uh huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv-0B-V-JpM

I don't get this.

fair to say i like this about a hundred times more than getting me down

it's pretty alright

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.

really quite impressive sound design, i said to myself while fashioning a noose

track of the year maybe? sounds to my ears like some lost post punk gem jacked right up for the 21st century.

yeah i can kinda get down with that reading actually

There's definitely an industrial techno thing going on in there. No wonder the Quietus boys are all over this ATM.

haha way to put me off this.

oh but it's just an undertone. i do hear some crunchy Perc-ish qualities to it.

No I meant Quietus.

what's this sample from, incidentally?

i don't think it's as good as "getting me down"

Are horror-shrieks a thing in dance music these days? There's a track on the Talabot album that has them.

what's this sample from, incidentally?

how many mics? or another sample?

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

well this one is obvious. Not sure about the other two tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCXFoOMKB4

i like that a lot

this stuff seems kinda burial-ish to me but way better

this sounds like something on m_nus circa 2006

Getting me Down may be the most overrated track of the last few years. Which is unfortunate, since Blawan is mostly excellent, as here.

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

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.

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

really quite impressive sound design, i said to myself while fashioning a noose

LOL

Late great are you being faux-naïf or...

didn't like 'getting me down' at all...kinda love this though.

about pipecock?

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

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?

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.

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

Hahaha, wrong link!

I mean this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_3dViMP4s

what kind of person is friends with pipecock on facebook

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

it's like, blawan template + different sample, that's it

Yeah I'm feeling this, especially for that sort of springy/boingy sound that runs right through it.

what kind of person is friends of friends with pipecock on facebook ;-)

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.

this track is great

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.

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.

sure, but I have the opposite reaction.

am i the only one that can't dance to it

I'd prob leave the dancefloor if it came on

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?

this is my favorite blawan track

perfect mix of syncopation and stomp imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8kCl4-hb0s

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

"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

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)

track of the year maybe? sounds to my ears like some lost post punk gem jacked right up for the 21st century.

― stirmonster, Friday, September 21, 2012 12:18 PM (Yesterday)

there is a bit of implog in this

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.

"Lavender" is def easier to mix than GMD or Bodies tho.

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.

his stuff is hard to mix because it runs off-beat and the parts wander

also does anyone else find blawan's tracks annoyingly painful to mix?

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.

Rev otm about the un-fun undanceable nature of this vis-à-vis Getting Me Down

it's (dumb) fun to the max!

is it the bleeps of the 10s or the jump up

want to start a thread called "people who blawan better than blawan"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9LS3KXJGHM

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.

I'm honestly not surprised by your reaction to this Matt DC.

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'.

what's the TEETH track?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSOV3LnL_0k

nope, still not sick of this yet.

The track in the op is really good.

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

In related news (that prob won't be interesting to DJP, but nevertheless). http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?405095 - anyone going?

Under my gah-
Under my gah-rage

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.

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.

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.

Blawan & SURGEON collab EP https://soundcloud.com/dynamic-tension/trade-sheworks005-preview

and so the circle is complete

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.

http://thequietus.com/articles/11445-blawan-girl-band-cover

haha this is great

well it was great until the vocals started

more sound effects plz

can't cosign on that

oh man this is so good

Still waiting for an excuse to use the phrase 'Why they hide their bodies under Nigel Farage?', but maybe not.

the girl band cover is SO GOOD for airplane takeoffs

and probably for other life purposes, but mostly right after you've taxied onto the runway