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Have you heard BT's "_" yet?
I just found this nameless BT album (spelled "_" on music streaming services) which is the spiritual sequel to "This Binary Universe". The album is very sublime and almost perfect. The ambient sections are gorgeous, the parts with beats range from very chill to danceable. Kinda reminds me of disc 2 from ATB's "Two Worlds" album in many ways.
The sound choices fit so well and create a great atmosphere. The flow is a smooth yet glitchy sonic orgasm. This I daresay is on par with Jean Michel Jarre, but only in the way BT can do it.
Artifacture was almost perfect (more on that under nitpicks). It had very smooth textures than Indivism and was a bit more ambient.
Indivism starts with slightly rougher textures than Artifacture and ends on Movement VII which somewhat reminds me of Bladerunner's soundtrack. Damn thing brought tears to my eyes.
Mu (or whatever that symbol is) is the roughest track that starts with a thick, dubsteppish textures Skrillex would probably wish he invented first. (Luckily, BT invented them first so Skrillex couldn't layer Justin Bieber's voice overtop that.) It moves on with thick and heavy house beats while also retaining many ambient pad textures. Mu IX was the perfect ambient finale to the track and the album.
However, a couple of minor nitpicks.
-Really, you named the various movements of each piece in Italian as if to be "artsy"?
-Artifacture VI has a VERY cringy, cheesy pretentious catchphrase which spoils the flow immensely. Fucksake Brian, that made me cringe harder than Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda" due to how the flow was spoiled. If I'm in the mood for electronic cheese, I'll put on David Guetta as he's a guilty pleasure. Otherwise, keep that shit out of the genre of music your "_" album represents!
Aside from the nitpicks, this album is a "must listen before 2017" album and an inspiration.
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Thanks for the heads up. Binary Universe is one of my ton 3 albums of all time, I had no idea he was releasing something similar. Off to go shopping!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/596hc0/i_am_composer_and_technologist_bt_my_new_album_is
Great tip, thanks! I've been a fan of BT since Movement in Still Life. Amazing how this guy just keeps reinventing his musical style without sounding like he's trying too hard to be different.
@Tarekith You're welcome mate. Enjoy it for what it is, even with the cheesy bit in part VI of Artifacture. xD
@telecharge Damn it! I wish I made it in time, lol. Well, I'll be sifting through that no doubt.
@brambos You're welcome mate. Truly the man is very hardworking and yet makes top-quality music that sounds effortlessly made while under the hood there's a TON of intricacies you'd never catch within your first 100 or so listens of the pieces.
Oh, by the way, Phasemaker driven by Fugue Machine is totally boss.
Just bought this and listened last night. Some great glitchy textures. Always love a new discovery. Thanks, @jwmmakerofmusic. Gradually discovering electronic music that I like (very little EDM does anything for me). I loved Plaid's Reachy Prints. Any other recommendations?
Slightly OT, but the ambient build of track one reminded me of Become Ocean by John Luther Adams, an orchestral piece. Well worth a listen.
For laid back electronic textures you can't go wrong with Boards of Canada. If you're in for a more energetic vintage-gear-spotting exercise check out Aphex Twin's Syro. A slightly more poppy/commercial favorite for me from last year was Jamie XX - In Colour.
And I guess my all-time favorite classic EDM album is Leftism by Leftfield.
It was just a couple of months ago, and there's good stuff there.
I figured with your previous thread about inspiration you would appreciate some advice from an artist who entertains you.
Finally had a chance to listen to this all the way through a couple times, definitely a really nice album. Good follow up to Binary Universe, different but still a lot of the same sounds and vibes. The AMA linked above was good too, though I have to admit finding it a bit painful to read BT interviews sometimes. The occasional bit of good info, but a lot of avoiding the question at times too. Anyway, thanks to both of you, definitely going to be listening to this a lot over the next few months.
Oh, and if you ever get a chance to listen to Binary Universe in surround sound, take it. Very cool experience.
Thanks for the tip, Erik. I know it doesn't compare to the "real thing," but I have a virtual surround enhancement on my phone that is pretty damn good with headphones. This was surprising to me as every virtual surround enhancement I've tried previously (computer, phone, player) has been utter shite. I'll give it a go.
Make sure you get the actual surround sound version though!
A former music critic and ex-Cool Hunter, I was stunned to not even have heard of BT. (Oh, the shame.)
The Reddit AMA is really charming, and he's a likeable guy with some really excellent advice on making music. The record's good, too, but it's not exactly experimental. Still, I will definitely check out his other stuff. (FWIW, @jwmmakerofmusic,I thought the Italiante movement designation was kind of a great joke. I mean, to paraphrase Eno, You say "pretentious" like it's a bad thing!)
Where do you all stand on the latest Orb record, "C.O.W."? I had been hunting for a piece along the lines of the KLF's "Chill Out" — which I would call a masterwork. "C.O.W." — "Chill Out, World" — is up there, I think.
I always get The Orb and Orbital mixed up.
Love me some KLF, though. (Okay, maybe not the Tammy Wynette stuff.)
haha, yeah on the Tammy Wynette.
Orbital was dancier, if I recall, and seems more dated today.
What, pray tell, is this virtual surround enhancement app of which you speak?? (Or, is it built in to the phone's OS?)
It's not an iPhone, and yes, it is built-in to the OS.
Thanks!
@sch The reviews are good for these, but I have no experience with them.
It's free, but the virtual surround might be an IAP.
Boom: Best Equalizer & Magical Surround Sound
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1065511007
They also have their latest version on sale for $10.99 USD. No IAP.
Boom 2: The Best Audio Enhancement App
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id948176063
If you decide to check 'em out, let us know how they are.
Ah man, really? So different!
I know. It's just some kind of mental block or something. Whenever I hear or see their names, I'm not sure how to associate the music in my head with the name. It's like Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman.
Haha. Exactly. Missing link between weird science and David Lynch.
You are doing better than me.
I also get Roy Orbison mixed up with those two
The Tammy Wynette was awesome, one of the best things they ever did. "They're justified and they're ancient, and they drive an ice-cream van". Rightly went to number one due to complete epic-ness. Sampled the riff from Voodoo Child as well.
KLF were epic. What happened to them?
They attended the Brit Awards in 1992 and played a set with Extreme Noise Terror, sprayed the audience with fake machine-gun fire, announced they were retiring from the music industry and on their way out they dumped a dead sheep at the after party.
And after that they disbanded. Oh and they burned a million pounds, most of their earnings and royalties, as a follow up on the Scottish island of Jura in 1994.
In addition to everything mentioned above, they deleted their entire catalog of music, too.
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True?
I actually had their first record, with all the Abba samples. And then I had the album after the lawyers got involved, which had blank spaces where the samples used to be; the liner notes (remember liner notes?) gave instructions on how to sample for yourself.
"Chill Out" — I can't say it enough. A 45-minute excursion, with sheep bleating, Italian shortwave and Long Island radio broadcasts, locomotive rolling stock, lap steel guitar, Van Halen, Elvis (and Tammy Wynette!) .... It's just a beautiful piece of music. And apparently it was largely improvised, too.
//EDIT: Forgive the omission of Tuvan throat singers.
Only The KLF know for sure, but...
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-klf-mn0000074853/biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF
_ is pretty sweet. Thanks for sharing @jwmmakerofmusic
@brambos, thanks for the tips, will check them out.
Thanks for post the link.
I found it interesting how structure and organization are so central to his creative approach, yet his natural inclinations are the complete opposite. Maybe it's time I also made those things an imperative, as opposed to the creative whimsy, which has gotten me nowhere for the past 20 years.
I sense a resolution coming on.