― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 19 June 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
http://search.insound.com/search/showrelease.jsp?p=INS29940
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vampire Business (Bimble...), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I passed this up in Hard Wax (they're loving the Dubstep btw!) for an old Carl Craig album & other stuff. If that Breezeblock mix is better... then maybe I'm not as excited about this as say a Skream or Digital Mystikz album after all.
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
1. Nu-Birth - Anytime (Dem 2's Nice & Sleazy Mix)2. Horsepower Productions - Fist of Fury3. Skream - Midnite Request Line4. Wiley - Pick Yourself Up (Target Instrumental Mix)5. Aaliyah - We Need A Resolution6. Tricky ft. PJ Harvey - Broken Homes7. Donnacha Costello - Dry Retch8. Pole - Tanzen9. Rhythm & Sound - Truly (Vladislav Delay Remix)10. Dillinja - The Angels Fell11. Hidden Agenda - Dispatch #212. DJ Shadow - You Can't Go Home Again13. Johnny Dark - HCD 2
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vampire Business (Bimble...), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 20 July 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link
excellent rec, gets stronger as it goes along, def. hanging round some of the same old haunts as maurizio/rhythm + sound, which can never ever be a bad thing
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Tim F is v.much OTM calling it a padded ep because there are (frustratingly) brilliant _bits_ on it. But the whole seems to fail somehow where it shouldn't have.
And it really would have helped to have had ALL of South London Boroughs on it because the title track would have been far & away the best cut on it (then Southern Comfort, then others) on a sound design level. The less Dubstep-y this gets the weaker, less atmospheric and menacing and emotional it feels. Yet the gauzy more ambient stuff seems to be getting the unfair share of the praise.
I'd have a hard time rating it below a 7, yet vast chunks of this lag far, far behind the truly effective parts in real musical power. Whilst never ever being hard to digest or bland or anything at any time it still ends up not feeling _really great_ either.
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Doesn't compare even remotely in imagination to darker Tricky, Massive Attack or FSOL (circa "Dead Cities") or acres of other dread Jungle... If Hyperdub didn't exist and seem fresh & untested for it I'd expect this to have been released on Lux Nigra.
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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― willem -- (willem), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Fair enough to the 'burial' concept but it feels for the most part TOO hermetic and sealed around it's own foggy dreamscape to sound truly dangerous or threatening or unsettling. It needs more breaking glass and interruptions to "normality" in it I think.
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
(i dont like this much at all btw. tim's pitchfork review had me thinking it was the second coming of horsepower.)
― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Wow, I couldn't disagree more with these claims. Listen to Skream or DMZ if you want more fractured dubstep, that really isn't the point.
btw just to pre-empt dubstep (feeeel the bass man) purist
This there anyone seriously going to claim this? This is not a 'feel the bass' record, it's a shade away from a dubstep soundsystem track. It sounds perfectly fine on my home stereo.
― Michael Dieter (Mika), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Dieter (Mika), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
But yes: Burial is in no way a bass-head record, whilst the sub-bass is present it is mixed well back, as there is quite a lot else going on. Check out Pinch for some real "holy shit that's a lot of sub down there" action...
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I wasn't really thinking about it in that way but maybe I'd now say it is the second coming of horsepower and that's part of what undermines it slightly. I still love many tracks on In Fine Style but it's hard to listen to in full. HP were better rhythmic programmers than Burial I think (nothing here is as startling rhythmically as, say, "Pimp Flavours") but overall Burial has a broader sonic palette.
This is definitely the first time I've received e-mails about a review with half complaining that I was too enthusiastic and the other half that I was too negative.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
All dubstep sounds fractured to me to a certain extent. Always tripping over itself and creating angular grooves. Skream falls into this paradigm for me - while he might sound non-jittery and so on, I think even 'Monsoon' or 'Request Line' would sound less so mixed into a different genre...
I agree, 'Boys Love Girls' is a 'fractured' sounding track. But it's such an exceptional record!
In any case, Burial is much more melodic and non-jittery than anything in dubstep or grime. The Germanic Basic Channel/Pole axis on the sound is an innovative approach I think. The point is to find a new synthesis, which requires reducing certain aspects associated with the London underground.
― Michael Dieter (Mika), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
this shit sounds like enigma w/o the hot beats and tight samples. at least enigma is catchy and gets heads nodding. i forgot what this sounded like two seconds after i took it off. all i could remember was the afterimage of a train whistle, ghostly fragments of bad ethnic samples and the overwhelming aftertaste of rainswept windshields and sodium lights. fuck that, this is what you get when you combine corny dead poets gothisms + the sound of a deep forest album at 33 rpm.
― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Hmm... these are exactly the reasons why I love the record.
― Michael Dieter (Mika), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link
and STFU about basic channel, people. teh fact that a dubstep album spends time aiming for something that shits on it from a great height doesn't make it worth listening to.
burial is worthwhile because he namechecks basic channel? what's next, i listen to matisyahu because he's got good taste in reggae?
― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
You can't be serious.
― Michael Dieter (Mika), Thursday, 20 July 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 21 July 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Perhaps Pole is a more significant reference point from Burial.
― Michael Dieter (Mika), Friday, 21 July 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
there, i said it. i feel better now. i'll get me hat.
― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Friday, 21 July 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
So does anyone know if there's going to be any sound systems playing Dubstep at notting hill carnival this year?
― jk_ (jk@gabba), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
SkreamAppleblim & ShackletonDigital Mystikz & Sgt PokesKode 9Various Production
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 21 July 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 21 July 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link