RFI: tell me more abt Ben Frost and things that sound like him because I don't really have a frame reference for this new agey ambient noisey stuff

There's no Rolling Classical thread at the moment

And it is too good for the Boomkat thread

But Daniel Bjarnason quietly put out a record last year, last September. I saw a concert in Reykjavik that included a couple of works represented here and it was quite simply the most successful new music premiere I've ever attended. The "free-to-listen" track here is representative. Amazing amazing string writing, this guy is my young favourite composer.

http://danielbjarnason.bandcamp.com/album/over-light-earth

it sounds like jerry goldsmith

We have Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack to "Alien" to prepare everyone's ears for a whole world of dissonant symphonic music

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https://soundcloud.com/benfrost/ben-frost-venter

I'm liking Ben Frost, as far as I've listened (thanks to this thread), though maybe it all goes down a little too easily. Or is that my atrophied attention? I don't even remember noticing his name before.

"Too good for the Boomkat thread" < made me chuckle.

New track is awesome.

The 4-minute mark on "Venter" might be my favorite musical moment so far this year.

That Frost & Bjarnsson Solaris thing is quite special; highly recommend giving it a listen

Is Oneohtrix too obvious to be recommended here?

oneohtrix is good, though

New album sounds pretty great.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/img/scale/460/561/2014/05/13/460x561xcover364.jpg.pagespeed.ic.w2gU-T4ub5.jpg

Good to see that the WIRE have finally persuaded Vincent Van Goch to do one last interview.

This thread begins and ends with The Wire.

http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/9406-ben-frost/

Ben Frost big NBA fan.

that Wire cover and this Crack cover are like the yin and yang of hairy electronic dudes

http://image.issuu.com/140506151706-4523788dc6268f606b391963c2ea1954/jpg/page_1_thumb_large.jpg

I like this record but the really high pitched sounds keep making me think I left an old CRT television on mute somewhere.

http://pitchfork.com/advance/447-a-u-r-o-r-a/ dude is the like superchunk of cinematic dronesplosion noise in that he does a very obvious thing very well, i'm into it, but will this one have a rad wolf on the cover

this V A R I A N T EP is pretty cool

still embarrassed that I pretty much missed Ben Frost's whole set at a festival due to time constraints

but he's going to be in Iowa City in April!!

iglu ferrignu post upthread is hilarious -- the one time i listened to this dude the "aggressiveness" of it just felt rote to me

I still rate the quality of this guy's sound design, but there's a few moments on AURORA where these big synths lines come in and it feels like he's channeling Scooter

yeah, check the remix ep

Have previously dismissed him as a bit ... melodramatic/unlistenable ... but he really works on the "Fortitude" TV series.

Sound track seemingly being released tomorrow:

https://boomkat.com/products/music-from-fortitude

New EP is good, but the forthcoming album is even better...

I still rate the quality of this guy's sound design, but there's a few moments on AURORA where these big synths lines come in and it feels like he's channeling Scooter

Why would this be considered as anything other than awesome?

I've been putting off listening to the EP because it sounds so great in concept I just want to devote time to listening to it without distractions very loudly at home!

thank you for album Ben Frost

Indeed!

I feel like these track titles have kind of a homage/parody theme?

"Eurydice's Heel" --> shoulder of Orion? blade runner-esque music?

"A Single Hellfire Missle.." -> hmm who has track titles like that