sorry for repeating myself but this is all I could think of when listening to the essential mix
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
yup
Warp Record guest Rustie delves into the diversity of his own tastes with a special selection including: Boards of Canada, Allan Holdsworth, Yes, Return to Forever & Weather Report.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
he should've totally taken bieber and shakira up ffs
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean you can totally imagine shakira doing a vocal along the lines of nightwave's on "surph" and fleshing the song out a bit
please apologize for linking to a site w/ a picture of rustie
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
This was originally meant to go to Rihanna
― Number None, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha xp
return to forever is totally in these days, just look at that thundercat record.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
wtf r u talking abt when was RTF ever not cool?
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
rustie looks like he could be on wdyll
allan holdsworth is a pretty deep pick
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
"nice keebaab?""it....it was a burrito actually"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha i was obsessed with that stuff when i was a teenager, but you have to admit that they have the worst rep out of all the big fusion bands (for the usual jazz crimes - cheesy/overblown/soulless etc.).
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah his music is kinda loud, those gloopy shiny synths really "fill up" the, uh, psychoacoustic space or whatever you want to call it.
i think this is my actual biggest problem with the record. most of the synth sounds he uses are just loud and shrill to me and drive me nuts
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 08:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
rustie is shrill
but he is also shrewd, and chill
― Ms Tum-Bla-Wi-Tee (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
are people still into glass swords ?
― the late great, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Funny you should mention this. I was just listening to this today. I love this album (been listening to it since it came out, as well).
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
the best album of 2011 for me
"slasherr" from this year is decent as well
― monotony, Friday, 3 May 2013 03:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
yeah liked this record a lot, didn't even notice it was much taken notice of on ILM
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 May 2013 03:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
My favorite 2011 album that I didn't hear until 2012.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 May 2013 03:17 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I kind of hear what Matt DC is saying about it not really being dance music - not that you 'can't' dance to it, but a lot of the songs never get going quite enough or sustain a beat long enough. I could see it lending itself really well to dance remixes/edits that wouldn't have to do a whole lot.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:14 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
sure it's still awesome
― i wouldn't mistake myself for anyone. (wolves lacan), Friday, 3 May 2013 16:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
that's part of what I like about it, all that tension that never quite releases
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 May 2013 16:14 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
dance prog. imo it's really more an update on instrumental funk from the 70s, that was as much an exercise in jamming, in a musicianly way, as it was "dance music".
― Dominique, Friday, 3 May 2013 16:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
really? it's got some fusion signifiers, but to my ears the forms/structures are very exacting and dance-based (and the most fun moments are when he's playing with listener expectations on the builds/drops).
― shit tie (Jordan), Friday, 3 May 2013 17:25 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
something that confused me about rustie was that he got so much more popular / acclaimed than hudson mohawke. their approaches, qualities and strengths seem very similar to me.
― the late great, Friday, 3 May 2013 17:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i guess that's not true post-tnght but i always felt "butter" got a bad rap
I don't really mean it sounds like fusion, just that it reminds of what a lot of instrumental and fusion bands were doing in the 70s, making records of essentially "dance" music, but that were never really the same kind of dance music as, say, giorgio moroder or chic. Even tho really, if you listen to it, formwise, it's not arguably a different thing. See also a lot of instrumental hip-hop, post-dubstep stuff like zomby, or even squarepusher (who really does play the fusion card).
hudson mohawke seems to actively court dance/hip-hop appeal tho. Like, he makes tracks, and with tnght, that sound like their primary purpose is to woo a rapper to use them for production, and to make festival crowds jump up and down. Whereas rustie to my ears sounds too "impressive" in a muso way. It sounds amazing when I hear it at home, but maybe too busy in too short a time to work as "dance" music, as was suggested upthread. A fine line tho!
― Dominique, Friday, 3 May 2013 18:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
just listened to "glass swords" b2b w/ soul jazz's "deutsche elektronische musik" comp which is largely just prog as opposed to electronic music and it was a very smooth transition
there are moments of the rustie album that are straight-up prog imo
― the late great, Friday, 3 May 2013 18:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink