WHY THEY HIDE THEIR BODIES UNDER MY GARAGE?

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

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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?

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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