― 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
― jimnaseum - music to make you staga (jimnaseum), Friday, 21 July 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah that break is fine, but that's about it. I don't dis-like the rest of it, it's just kind of there.
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 22 July 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Aye.
― jimnaseum - music to make you staga (jimnaseum), Saturday, 22 July 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
but compare burial's album to something like phoenicia's "brownout" and you'll see that burial is very, very subpar.
― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Saturday, 22 July 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Tim Finney, July 21st, 2006.
eh, crackle!
― Brian Best (ukb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Fandango, regardless of your opinion on Burial, I really think you should hear SAW II. I'm tempted to say everyone should hear SAW II, but I do realize that's probably stretching it.
― Grabbing Thistle (Bimble...), Sunday, 23 July 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 23 July 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I would put all the vocal tracks ahead of it.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 23 July 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 23 July 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 23 July 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 July 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 24 July 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 July 2006 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 July 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Oris Jay's "Brand Nu Flava" had a similar sick-with-love vibe. (sigh) so many of those producers went crap!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 24 July 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 24 July 2006 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grabbing Thistle (Bimble...), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― ennui (fandango), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― ennui (fandango), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Also: check this out: Burial's remix of Jamie Woon's Wayfaring Stranger (fourth track here: http://www.myspace.com/jamiewoon ) - out at the end of this month on Live Recordings (has been played by Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 1 a couple of times already, it seems).
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 7 January 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 8 January 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 8 January 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 January 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Hype hype hype and then it turns out to be fantastic!
I had no idea. I could play Broken Home on repeat for hours... I really should have been paying more attention to this whole dubstep thing, but then there's only so much hours in the day and essays have to be handed in and I only get so much time off work and...
― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Still despite the fact that Death In June have nothing at all to do with the Burial this thread is dedicated to, I still stand by the album and look forward to the rumoured next Burial album due this year.
― Booper Soul (Bimble...), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
this track is up on Hype Machine now. it's been on repeat for hours. get it asap.
― cizzzy (brother loves dub), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Burial sounds like an instrumental version of Tricky's 3rd album.
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
-- jed_
although I have, jed is closet to my feelings about 'Burial' overall.
― about:coffee (fandango), Monday, 5 February 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link