I have some Robag Wrhume from about 2004/5 and it was really good - sort of IDM house. What's his latest stuff like?
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
you just put me off checking it out seandalai
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
i listened to this once and have no memory of it other than that it was nice. he had a good mix out this year too
― donna rouge, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
What the vukk?
― John Gaw Meme (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
it's kind of pastoral techno, very immersive, kind of border communityesque
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yessssss, was hoping that would place. Really beautiful example of what we used to call microhouse back in the day - lush strings, disembodied child voices, I've played it all year without getting tired of it.
― Matt DC, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
I tried hard to get into Konkylie, but I always got bored after the first two tracks (which I love!). also, closer was nice, as far as I remember.
― V79, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
was going to post that I just listened to the first half of Konkylie on Spotify, and the first two tracks do seem to stand above the rest
― two lights crew (seandalai), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
This sounds like something I would love were I listening to it outside of the context of a countdown of the 77 best albums of the year; as it stands, it's just sort of pleasant? It seems to be put together well and has a good sense of build and release, but the restraint is not what I want to listen to right now (nb this is all based on the first track, the whole album might erupt into a techstep facemelter later on for all I know)
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
it's kind of pastoral techno, very immersive, kind of border communityesque― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:43 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:43 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
sold
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
There's a lot going on it it, but it's not really a dancefloor album, I've mostly listened to it as a late night thing while reading, in the way I would with Pantha Du Prince or someone.
― Matt DC, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
There are some lovely, very crystalline sounding tracks on that album, maybe along the same lines as Pantha Du Prince? Didn't vote for it in the end though cos those bridging pieces in between the main tracks were a bit of a drag.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
good comparison with pantha du prince, even more atmospheric. I'm sure he could gussy it up for the dance floor though.
― skip, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Oh he's one half of Wighnomy Brothers who are masters of gussying it up for the dance floor.
― Matt DC, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, I think on the sandbox when talking about big hip-hop tracks this year, I made a comment about 2011 being the year that music stopped being real and started being polite; these first two albums seem to hold up that thesis pretty well.
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
76. Robag Wruhme — Thora Vukk (262 points, 8 votes)
really enjoying this
― Rotary Boy of the Month (WmC), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
xpost don't know if 2011 is the year that happened man.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
it's the year that everyone spent in their bedrooms on the internet
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to have to check this out now, also because of the comparison with Pantha du Prince!
― future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
xp I've been doing that for years, glad the world caught up...
― two lights crew (seandalai), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Depends on whether you're listening to polite music or not. I don't think I really like this stuff that much. PDP is ok, but kinda shiny and dull at the same time imo.
Hoping for something loud at this end of the countdown.
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
xposts like every year since 1999
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
I meant to listen to this, am a fan of his other work and even checked out Wuppdeckmischmampflow, but seem to have less and less enthusiasm for 'what we used to call microhouse back in the day'...
― MikoMcha, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
I made a comment about 2011 being the year that music stopped being real and started being polite; these first two albums seem to hold up that thesis pretty well.
everyone be getting OLD
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/AoUNt.jpg
75. Liturgy — Aesthethica (264 points, nine votes)
P4K: 41P&J: 88
Spotify
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 January 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
politeness just got the shit kicked out of it!
Guessing this counts as "something loud".
― two lights crew (seandalai), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of nice and loud. Hey, I still haven't listened to Liturgy.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol I fucked up that quote, it's GETTING real isn't it
Real World fanboy badge revoked
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
hey! there we go!i didn't vote for it, but it's loud and fairly impolite.
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Metal, I'm assuming?
― Matt DC, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
the cover could be a witch house album
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
I like that cover design a lot.
― tumblring dice (crüt), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
crossover/hipster black metal is better than none at all
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
I am cracking up though that the first minute of this loud, impolite album is a soft note played over and over though
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
needs more triangles in the artist name
― nathey, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Matt DC - Liturgy are a black metal band who've caused controversy because they dress like hipsters and try to unravel the usual black metal tropes of being Norwegian and dressing like a Vril-Ya. I still haven't heard it, but it's supposed to be good.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Metal, I'm assuming?― Matt DC,
― Matt DC,
transcendental black metal
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
wiki
Liturgy are a self-described "transcedent black metal" band from Brooklyn, New York. Originally the solo project of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the band expanded to a four piece in 2008, after the release of the 12" Immortal Life, which was followed in 2009 with their debut album Renihilation. The group call their style "transcendental black metal",[1][2] which is described in a declaration written by Hunt-Hendrix.[3] Hunter cites Swans, Glenn Branca, Alexander Scriabin, Iannis Xenakis and Lightning Bolt as influences.[4]
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
haha witch house was the first thing i thought of
happy 4 the metal crü
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Save us J0rdan Fever!
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
"Hunter Hunt Hendrix" sounds like a Gossip Girl character/actor but his name isn't his fault.
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://youtu.be/qciRxrlTFGc
^ Liturgy - Generation
(I didn't vote for this btw, but that was the best track imo)
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
here is a jaunty excerpt of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix's Trancendental Black Metal theory
PROLEGOMENONOne could propose a new meaning for black metal along with a new array of techniques to activate that meaning. The meaning of Transcendental Black Metal is Affirmation, and its new technique is the Burst Beat.The will to power has two stages. The first may be called Fortification; the establishment of a paradigm or set of rules and the ensuing exploration of potential that lies within those constraints. The second stage may be termed Sacrifice; an auto-destruction, a self-overcoming whereby the initial rules, having been fully digested and satisfied, are thereby mutilated. They are transformed into the basis for something new and unprecedented.Transcendental Black Metal is black metal in the mode of Sacrifice. It is a clearing aside of contingent features and a fresh exploration of the essence of black metal. As such it is solar, hypertrophic, courageous, finite and penultimate. Its tone is Affirmation and its key technique is the Burst Beat.The black metal that was born in Scandinavia in the mode of Fortification can be termed Hyperborean Black Metal. Hyperborean Black Metal is lunar, atrophic, depraved, infinite and pure. The symbol of its birth is the Death of Dead. Its tone is Nihilism and its key technique is the Blast Beat.Today USBM stands in the shadow of Hyperborean Black Metal. The time has come for a decisive break with the European tradition and the establishment of a truly American black metal. And we should say “American” rather than “US”: the US is a declining empire; America is an eternal ideal representing human dignity, hybridization and creative evolution.The act of renihilation is the betrayal of Hyperborean Black Metal and an affirmation of Transcendental Black Metal. And it is at the same time the constitution of an apocalyptic humanism to be termed Aesthetics. As such, the question of Transcendental Black Metal is only the tip of an iceberg at the base of which is hidden a new relationship between art, politics, ethics and religion.
One could propose a new meaning for black metal along with a new array of techniques to activate that meaning. The meaning of Transcendental Black Metal is Affirmation, and its new technique is the Burst Beat.The will to power has two stages. The first may be called Fortification; the establishment of a paradigm or set of rules and the ensuing exploration of potential that lies within those constraints. The second stage may be termed Sacrifice; an auto-destruction, a self-overcoming whereby the initial rules, having been fully digested and satisfied, are thereby mutilated. They are transformed into the basis for something new and unprecedented.Transcendental Black Metal is black metal in the mode of Sacrifice. It is a clearing aside of contingent features and a fresh exploration of the essence of black metal. As such it is solar, hypertrophic, courageous, finite and penultimate. Its tone is Affirmation and its key technique is the Burst Beat.The black metal that was born in Scandinavia in the mode of Fortification can be termed Hyperborean Black Metal. Hyperborean Black Metal is lunar, atrophic, depraved, infinite and pure. The symbol of its birth is the Death of Dead. Its tone is Nihilism and its key technique is the Blast Beat.Today USBM stands in the shadow of Hyperborean Black Metal. The time has come for a decisive break with the European tradition and the establishment of a truly American black metal. And we should say “American” rather than “US”: the US is a declining empire; America is an eternal ideal representing human dignity, hybridization and creative evolution.The act of renihilation is the betrayal of Hyperborean Black Metal and an affirmation of Transcendental Black Metal. And it is at the same time the constitution of an apocalyptic humanism to be termed Aesthetics. As such, the question of Transcendental Black Metal is only the tip of an iceberg at the base of which is hidden a new relationship between art, politics, ethics and religion.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 30 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Played Konkylie a couple of times after a friend raved about it, liked it quite a lot.
Voted for Thora Vukk. Heavily played throughout the year, never tired of it, good holiday memories attached.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 30 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
the only 'metal' album i heard last year prior to the ILM Metal Poll. It's p good.
― pandemic, Monday, 30 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp:It comes with a manifesto on Transcendental Black Metal.
Transcendental Black Metal is a Renihilation, a “No” to the entire array of Negations, which turns to an affirmation of the continuity of all things
― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Monday, 30 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
prolego-memnon?
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Monday, 30 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
I have like zero interest in black metal, apparently. I don't even dislike this, it just is making zero impression on me.
Like, there is no way this album should aurally scan as "beige, forgettable" to me but there you go.
I think the issue I have with a lot of how black metal is constructed/presented is that it's a LOT of effort put into playing what is ultimately a relatively simple song/melody; like on this first track, everything is played on like 32nd notes but it's all subdivision of a really really really simple tune that's not particularly interesting or impressive, so my end reaction is "eh, why bother with all that?"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link