Rustie - Glass Swords

sure it's still awesome

that's part of what I like about it, all that tension that never quite releases

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".

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).

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.

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!

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

New Rustie track, dang. My vote for most interesting/exciting producer working today, as far as post-dubstep and trap goes. Can't wait for new record.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046ddlv

"Most exciting trap producer" = damned by faint praise!

sort of, but most trap doesn't sound like Rustie/only wishes it sounded like Rustie.

I still don't think he ever topped the Jagz The Smack EP

LOLLLL u so crazy

actually if i can interject some challops of my own i think zig zag is still his best track

NEW SHIT

Streamed this yesterday and it's nowhere near as buoyant or thrilling as Glass Swords, which is maybe my album of the decade so far.

not sure how i feel about the album as a whole, but the d double e and danny brown 1-2 punch in the middle is undeniable

i'll have to give it some time but i hear what you're saying, first impression it's definitely not as good as glass swords, not sure what's missing

I was confused as to why the vocalist on "Dream On" wasn't credited when all the others were. If the woman singing turns out to be Kelli-Leigh I would actually die.

And yeah this is just off one stream - and I love all his other stuff - so I'm definitely willing to give it a chance too.

Glorious cover art btw.

Looking forward to the D Double track but really he should have got on the phone to Flirta D for full on glorious gonzoid effect.

I CAN'T PLAY THE COMPUTER GAME THAT UNLOCKS THE TRACKS!

having said that i did not think the lead single was up to much so i haven't tried that hard. sum total of time I've spent on computer games in my life = 5 mins of mario the hedgehog when i was 7, 5 mins spent repeatedly running it into a ravine

"mario the hedgehog" eh?

Games? Is that what you call them? Games?

This is sounding pretty great so far...

It's awful

d double e and danny brown 1-2 punch in the middle is undeniable

Just hit this section, and um... it's fairly deniable imo. Bit of a wasted opportunity. Prefer the instrumentals...

Some of the early tracks are dope, think I need to spend more time with this.

¯\(°_o)/¯

Pretty much.

feels like a bit like offcuts from the first album, all the sounds are there but the impact is not. "velcro" is alright and so is the d double e one; danny brown sounds weird like he's half putting on a british grime mc's accent. pretty blah album tbh

Rapture is cool, I especially like the first four tracks. Then it goes a bit off the rails and never really recovers.

ha, i felt the opposite - first half was most disappointing, got slightly better once it hit the rap tracks but never really hit the heights

just started playing glass swords again and while i mostly like it, it really is not the sort of thing i can listen to for very long

snd are similar in this respect

i used to like the early rustie eps from years ago, ep is probably the ideal format for him

i decided i only like the rap tracks

like almost all the vocal tracks on this, esp the danny brown one, but i think the instrumentals are easy to underrate. definitely more subdued than GS, and less ambitious, and sometimes just a bit deficient (ie the total opposite of GS where nothing could be seen as being deficient), but they still sound like no one else. i think he was thinking more melodically on this album. maybe its him trying to get more producer work, or do something 'proper' rather than weird/funny like the last one, not sure, but its still good. hopefully he hasnt gotten too self conscious.

Some parts of this album give me instant nostalgia for 80s arcade game soundtracks - I think its the general midi sounding slap bass noise he uses occasionally - but it takes me back to listening to this as an 8 year old: http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/6_Amazing_Coin-Op_Soundtracks_from_Virgin_Games

I'm quite sure that's intentional

anyone still listening to this? i think its a bit of a grower. every track with guest vocalists is great except the gorgeous children one, and even though theyre a bit sketchy, the instrumentals generally have enough good things going for them for me not to write this album off. it doesnt attack you like glass swords, but i dont see that as a negative. or maybe you just really have to be a big rustie fan.

no Hudson Mohawke thread, huh? i'm sad that i haven't heard anything i like so far off the new Hud Mo album :(

(only heard the singles, not the full thing, i'm sure there will be a couple deep cut jams)

Ryderz is such a banger

could've sworn he had his own thread but i can't find it either

hahahahaha

http://soundcloud.com/rustie/first-mythz

listened to it thrice today

day's not over yet

um and apparently new album tomorrow?

https://soundcloud.com/rustie/peace-upzzz

better than the last one but still not as good as glass swords ....

hope this gets released on cd.

oof this album is absolutely dreadful

you mean absolutely brilliant and almost as good as glass swords