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DeusExMachinima
Sep 2, 2012

:siren:This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!:siren:

Put this loser on ignore immediately!
I'm liking your sound Konstruct, interesting video. A few months ago you posted a link to a compilation you were on, I think it had Anti-PLUR on it too. Do you still have that link?

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Konstruct
Jul 22, 2007

I'm Going To Spread Saikyo All Over The World!!

DeusExMachinima posted:

I'm liking your sound Konstruct, interesting video. A few months ago you posted a link to a compilation you were on, I think it had Anti-PLUR on it too. Do you still have that link?

Thank you. I'm not sure if I was the one who posted that link. To the best of my knowledge the only compilation I'm on is Juggernaut Music Group: gently caress You Enjoy. I actually mastered that release. http://music.juggernautservices.com/album/gently caress-you-enjoy

ZoltarOmniscient
Jan 17, 2013
All this talk of local industrial scenes growing and dying has made me realize that there really isn't one where I live. I'm in the maritime provinces of Canada, and as far as I've seen only myself and a close friend listen to industrial music in any meaningful capacity. I'm planning on moving somewhere else once I finish university to do a Master's degree, I was thinking Montreal, but I'm wondering how active the scene is there aside from Kinetik.

The Cleaner
Jul 18, 2008

I WILL DEVOUR YOUR BALLS!
:quagmire:

ZoltarOmniscient posted:

I'm in the maritime provinces of Canada, and as far as I've seen only myself and a close friend listen to industrial music

To be fair, you're in the MARITIMES.

A place where people wear hunting clothes to social events.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
Just kind of digging this and wanting to tell other people to listen to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjn2afF2nLE

ZoltarOmniscient
Jan 17, 2013

The Cleaner posted:

To be fair, you're in the MARITIMES.

A place where people wear hunting clothes to social events.

Touché, I do plan to leave at the earliest opportunity though, I just can't really decide where to.

The Cleaner
Jul 18, 2008

I WILL DEVOUR YOUR BALLS!
:quagmire:

ZoltarOmniscient posted:

Touché, I do plan to leave at the earliest opportunity though, I just can't really decide where to.

I hear the industrial scene is going pretty strong up in Nunavut.

Twiin
Nov 11, 2003

King of Suck!
These aren't all PURE CVLT INDUSTRIAL but I like top ten of 2013 lists so here's mine you guys.

10: Eluvium - Nightmare Ending
Guitar drones and ambient synths mixed with moody neo-classical. The only ambient record on this list that stays ambient the entire way through, without drifting into abraisive noise solos. For fans of Stars Of The Lid and Eno-style ambient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7EQeEHFAgk

9: Melt-Banana - Fetch
2013 comeback records that don't suck #1: Melt-Banana. I know that japanoise bands are not everyone's cup of tea, but just listen to Zero, this album's closer. How can you not love this record? We all have a little noise in our hearts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMfKZOBo74w

8: Roly Porter – Life Cycle Of A Massive Star
Probably the shortest record on this list? This or the Melt-Banana. Beautiful concept, beautiful tones, beautiful progression from rich melodic Tangerine Dream style ambient into moments of brutal power electronics and back again. Fun Fact: When I first listened to this album, my music player locked up and looped a 10-second clip over and over, and I didn't notice for nearly ten minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKcSRMZ5hfk

7: Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
This record is like if Zola Jesus listened to Doom growing up instead of Industrial. The production reminds me a lot of Earth's last few albums, but if you dragged it through the mud and then accidentally used the 'shoegaze' preset when you mixed it. Basically it sounds like a lot of good things is what I'm saying here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBozvWakXow

6: Le Matos - Join Us
I don't even know what kind of music this is. Italian Troncore. Vangelis does Georgio Moroder on the set of Zombi 2. Sega Master System racing games fondly remembered through fever dreams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ncmWgDz6U

5: gently caress Buttons - Slow Focus
gently caress Buttons is the band that proves all this whining about kids today being too soft for noise music is bullshit. Listen to this loving record, man. This is an Ant-Zen record, this is a Tympanik record. Except the band is playing huge festivals and people are losing their loving poo poo over it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXVPlrY974

4: Diaphane - Lifeforms
I've loved everything I've heard from Régis Baillet, each album more than the last. Whenever I listen to his music, it makes me want to be a better musician. Beautiful, melodic, haunting, beautiful. Long, progressive washes of synths and loops with rare moments of driving, frenetic energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el62qLOL1og

3: The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
If the Eluvium record is Eno-style background ambient, this is lights-off / headphones-on ambient. It is not for playing in the background while you work on wrapping Christmas presents or make dinner. It is for deep listening. There is so much here. Also there are a lot of beats so probably ambient isn't the best word to describe this anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4JvOc2xps

2: Gary Numan - Splinter
2013 comeback records that don't suck #2. The best 90s industrial rock record since the 90s. Seriously. If half the tracks on this were released by NIN as instrumental demos from The Downward Spiral no one would bat an eye. Gary Numan is one of those rare vocalists who can make any style of music sound like he invented it, and after listening to this record, I'm not sure he didn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOK0IyF4Dxc

1: Pet Shop Boys - Electric
2013 comeback records that don't suck #3. The last few Pet Shop Boys records sounded like they were made by people who hated music. It was only with a sense of deep obligation to the 80s that I listened to this in the first place, actually. It's hard to pick a #1 between this and the Gary Numan, but it was so incredible to hear a return to form for PSB that it gets the top pick. All Pet Shop Boys greatest hits albums need to be recalled so they can add Love Is A Bourgeois Construct to the tracklist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq5Xherv7DU&t=1048s

Babby Sathanas
May 16, 2006

bearbating is now adorable
The only thing I've truly loved this year is Splinter, I've bought it for a few people as presents and listen to it all the time. Everyone should get it.

Yuppie Scum
Nov 28, 2003

Fortune and glory, kids. Fortune and glory.

Babby Sathanas posted:

The only thing I've truly loved this year is Splinter, I've bought it for a few people as presents and listen to it all the time. Everyone should get it.

Agreed. I'm excited because I've got tickets to see him in Vegas with Big Black Delta opening.

Babby Sathanas
May 16, 2006

bearbating is now adorable

Yuppie Scum posted:

Agreed. I'm excited because I've got tickets to see him in Vegas with Big Black Delta opening.

You'll love it. I got to see him this month and he was amazing. He basically played most of Splinter with Cars, Are Friends Electric and Down In the Park and looked like he was loving every minute. An utter treat.

Plastic Pal
Jun 5, 2004

~ It's you. Only you. ~


Aw man, I finally crawl out of Games and discover that SA has an industrial music thread and I learn in one fell swoop that Funker Vogt lost its lead singer *and* that Das Bunker is closing. :smith: I never once went to Das Bunker (long been too drat old for the club scene), but it always made me happy to know it was still there after all this time with rivets still dancing their kickypunchy dance.

Anyway, pardon if this has already been mentioned (I have yet to wade through 78 pages), but I wanted to share this: Noize Sektor Radio. I'm hopelessly addicted to skull-crushing electronic noise (and aggrotech, like Feindflug, Terrorfakt and such) and this stream is one of the few that just does it for me nearly every time I tune in. :allears:

And drat I'm jealous of anyone who gets to see Gary Numan. Iconic new wave artist gone industrial -- so perfect.

Noricae
Nov 19, 2004

cheese?
That Haxan Cloak album is close to my #1 of the year (waffling on it with a few others, mostly Comaduster's debut - which is really great). Moderat II, Oneohtrix Point Never, Autechre, Hecq are on there too, in addition to albums mentioned a lot more in this thread (PP/Gary Numan/FLA, etc). I liked gently caress Buttons' first two albums a lot more :(

Noricae fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Dec 27, 2013

boo_radley
Dec 30, 2005

Politeness costs nothing
Comeback albums, you say?

Die Krupps: Schmutzfabrik

And Daniel Myer's remix of SOULS, because goddamn.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




Twiin posted:


6: Le Matos - Join Us
I don't even know what kind of music this is. Italian Troncore. Vangelis does Georgio Moroder on the set of Zombi 2. Sega Master System racing games fondly remembered through fever dreams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ncmWgDz6U


Thank you so much for this, it has become my new favorite thing.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Ok here's mine. Tried to add some original tunes.

10. Night Sins - To London or the Lake
Saw this guy play a live show in a small dingy room and it was excellent. Sisters of Mercy goth rock combined with (dare I say) U2. Putting it here because I like that. There should be more of it. It's good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-PZr9kWhg4

9. Architect - Mine
A lot of albums could go here at #9 and #10 because I don't strong opinions this high. But this has some really sublime songs on it and Daniel Myer is always a joy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsxprPNzZtk

8. Pankow - And Shun the Cure They Most Desire
I like this kind of industrial. Laibach is another band like this. On the face of it it's crude and offensive, but that's not so: it's crude because it says something about people and not as juvenile "edgy" thrills like so many bad industrial bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux7A3SsVP6A

7. Blush Response - Tension Strategies
I get Pretty Hate Machine vibes from this one. He's doing something interesting with angsty music about hating your parents--I think we need that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMCj_bYRlP8

6. Selena Gomez - Stars Dance
I like pop. This was a bad year for pop. Pop this year was like the Byzantine Empire descending into mad hubris and depravity. It was the year that Miley Cyrus was the most popular pop star. Katy Perry was meh. Lady Gaga's ArtPop became ArtFlop. Britney bombed and has been exiled to Las Vegas.

Here's the rub: We're on diva overload. Audiences are exhausted by years of these giant divas and have begun retreating into minimalism represented by Lorde, which is not what pop should be. But Selena Gomez, my hometown hero and Disney Channel star, has risen above it. It's not a great album. But it's consistent and got cooked right. There's not a bad song on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS5UUxArpJ0

5. Youth Code - Youth Code
This here is my PURE CVLT INDUSTRIAL scenester album. I'm mainly basing this off the live show which just rocked. It's the opposite of well-produced, slick techno-pop which I love so much. It's punk-ethos hardcore industrial noise. Loses out to Statiqbloom though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsxtLzFmW1w

4. Pet Shop Boys - Electric
The Pet Shop Boys are one of my favorite bands. I'm with Twiin on this. This is a good album. It was another bright spot in a bad pop year--it's nearly great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz1KSxk35cU

3. Statiqbloom - Mask Visions Poison
Best harsh EBM I've heard in a long time. Like classic Skinny Puppy from an alternate timeline. And I don't care much for new Skinny Puppy. In the same vein as Youth Code but richer and fuller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k7ajjQbLTc

2. Blutengel - Monument
I think Traenenherz is their better album, but this has some of their best songs and they get props again for sheer panache. It's campy, bathos-dripping, well-produced gothic-vampire techno pop from Germany. And they've taken bad taste so far that it becomes pretty good. It's the best pop album of the year. And Blutengel is at the intersection of two forms of popular music that I like the most.

It loses points for sheer loudness, though. The levels can be exhausting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPSLd5SdkBM

1. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
Singer-songwriter mixed with industrial and new wave beats. Harsh, dark humor. Wrenching songs about homophobia, ex-lovers and HIV. It's also a riposte.

Gay culture in pop culture today has to always be a "teachable/inspirational" moment now to make people feel better--but that's not honest and it doesn't address the real pain that people are going through. Bret Easton Ellis wrote: "The Sweet and Sexually Unthreatening and Super-Successful Gay is supposed to be destined to transform The Hets into noble gay-loving protectors—as long as the gay in question isn’t messy or sexual or difficult." We have somehow decided not to talk about drugs, suicide, disease or self-loathing. This does. It's necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=953YhXPwnxg

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Dec 29, 2013

Danger - Octopus!
Apr 20, 2008


Nap Ghost
^^^^ Wait, you like Selena Gomez and industrial music? OMG LET'S BE FRIENDS :respek:

I've recently started listening to Haus Arafna, and really like them. Who else has a similar sort of vibe, but is currently active? I'm ideally looking for someone where there's the prospect of possible live dates and new albums, not someone who's awesome but stopped touring/releasing a decade ago.

Mr. Swoon
Nov 25, 2003

ALL WE DO IS PARTY

Omi-Polari posted:

Ok here's mine. Tried to add some original tunes.

The venn diagrams for pop fans and industrial fans must be almost totally overlapping, I swear to god. Still some neat stuff I haven't heard yet, so I'm down with that.

boo_radley
Dec 30, 2005

Politeness costs nothing
Oh, can we include Laibach's Eurovision/ Resistance is Futile for best of 2013?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

boo_radley posted:

Oh, can we include Laibach's Eurovision/ Resistance is Futile for best of 2013?
Fo sho we can.

Mr. Swoon posted:

The venn diagrams for pop fans and industrial fans must be almost totally overlapping, I swear to god. Still some neat stuff I haven't heard yet, so I'm down with that.
It's like yin and yang for me. And I like these pop divas with freakish hairstyles and outfits and the whole cyborg-cyberpunk-looking style of it all. Both borrow from each other a lot too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjm-kCOMaPY

Found that on Daniel Myer's YouTube page. He's always favoriting pop, 80s R&B, Italo-Disco poo poo, etc.

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Dec 30, 2013

teethgrinder
Oct 9, 2002

I can appreciate SOME pop music, but man I abhor tonnes of it. Rihanna and Katy Perry's voices just skullfuck my mind.

I would imagine hardly any people that identify with pop music can tolerate electro-industrial, or most of the permutations. I've seen some slight cross-over with the odd ... Combichrist track, or some other novelty bit.

But it doesn't surprise me that industrial folk can appreciate pop. If you're open-minded enough for industrial, why not pop? Another possibility, there's a bit of a cheese factor to a lot of both genres that you have to get over to appreciate/enjoy it.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Not to begrudge people for being self-serious about their music but for me it's mainly entertainment. The cheese factor is one major thing that attracts me to it. Being a super-scary goth guy/gal is kind of an inherently ridiculous concept so why not have fun with it?

Oh and speaking of bizarre crossovers, this is a golden video of Front 242 playing in a shopping mall when they had some mainstream crossover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUOLYYOUiII

quote:

Richard Jonckheere posted:
And we did this show on a Sunday morning around 11pm [me: I think he means AM] in a commercial gallery (shopping mall) ! That show was suppose to be famous and would get us lots of attention the record company said!
Edit: Woah Teeth of the Sea.

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Dec 30, 2013

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




I hate top 10 lists; I have a such a hard time ranking things. First I was going to go with an unranked list, but that lacked direction. Then I had the bright idea of ranking everything by number of plays according to iTunes (which did not take into account car listens...) but then that screwed over a few things just released in November and December, so...

Here's my top 10, mostly by number of plays at home, but also weighted by release date and my gut. I realized afterwards that I did it "upside/down" and went from best to not best, but oh well.

1. Architect - Mine
When I first previewed this on Amazon.com, and heard the soulful female vocals, I thought Amazon must've hosed up and uploaded the wrong album or something. Checked around... Nope, that was the new Architect album. This album feels so very out of left field, not at all what I was expecting, and yet is easily the most satisfying, and by far my personal most listened-to release of 2013 - all the more impressive since it was released in September.
http://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/mine

2. Rob - Maniac (original soundtrack)
I loved horror movies before I discovered industrial music. I think Skinny Puppy's use of samples from horror movies may have attracted me to the genre as a youngin', and one of my favorite things about horror movies in the 80s were the synthesizer soundtracks. I think that when they hired Rob to do the soundtrack for the new Maniac remake starring Elijah Wood, they must've said, "We want something that's like Wendy Carlos's "A Clockwork Orange" soundtrack meets the Goblin soundtracks from the late 70s," and it works both in the movie and as a stand-alone listening experience.
http://youtu.be/1gT8bXSwWSU

3. Front Line Assembly - Echogenetic
It's like a cross between AirMech and my favorite FLA album, Epitaph.
http://youtu.be/lpPw8Miy7JI

4. ∆aimon - ∆aimon
I don't think I've seen any mention of this album in this thread, no idea why. I loved Flatliner, but this definitely has a different feel; a tiny bit more uptempo and the vocals are mixed louder, which may be why some people don't seem to like it. I had a friend whose immediate reaction was, "the music's great, but OH GOD THOSE VOCALS ARE AWFUL!" and I didn't know what was wrong, so YMMV.
http://aaimon.bandcamp.com/album/aimon

<shameless plug>Oh, look, it just so happens I did a fan remix of "Seraphim," one the songs from this album: https://soundcloud.com/mikeoday/seraphim-mikeoday-remix</shameless plug>
Here's the original version of Seraphim: https://soundcloud.com/aaimon/seraphim
More Seraphim remixes: https://soundcloud.com/groups/aimon-seraphim-remixes

5. Le Matos - Join Us
Stolen straight from Twiin's list, but ever since he posted it, I bought it and have listened to almost nothing else.
http://youtu.be/mFkDnZ4ijw8

6. Die Sektor - (-) Existence
I didn't really get into the last two Die Sektor albums, but this one really hits the spot for me. Loud aggrotech which wears its dubstep influences on its sleeve, but doesn't go overboard (in my opinion).
http://youtu.be/wrooIOtzi4g
I wanted my example to be the song "Unborn," but I can't seem to find it anywhere online, so if you're on the fence, check out that song.

7. Youth Code - Youth Code
What can I say that hasn't already been said? Industrial with a lo-fi/DIY punk mentality that seems to be taking the world by storm.
http://youthcode.bandcamp.com/album/youth-code

8. Covenant - Leaving Babylon
Oh Covenant, what are we to make of you? This and their previous release, Modern Ruin, have a lot of "okay" tracks, songs that aren't awful, but don't really evoke a response, a few "good" tracks, a stinker or two, and then that ONE song that elevates the entire album. Modern Ruin had "The Beauty and the Grace," which somehow made the songs immediately before and after it ("Kairos" and "Get On") better tracks. This one has "Not to Be Here," which literally almost made me tear up the first time I listened to it, and NOTHING MAKES ME DO THAT. While it doesn't quite make the song immediately after it, "Leaving Babylon II," any less existentially non-essential, it definitely stamps the entire album with a certain melancholy vibe, making subsequent listens richer than the first one was (for me, anyway). So, in other words, "Not to Be Here," traveled back in time and retroactively made me like the songs before it more.
http://youtu.be/6docjTfKpPU

9. Project Pitchfork - Black
WTF, guys? If not for this thread, Project Pitchfork would've fallen off my radar years ago, yet no mention in anyone's year-end roundup? I think this is one of their strongest albums in years.
http://youtu.be/qrWoTnWjWM8

10. Skinny Puppy - Weapon
When I was a teenager, if you had told me that I'd be ranking an FLA album above a Skinny Puppy album, I probably would've punched you, but here we are. Don't get me wrong, Weapon is the best Skinny Puppy release of the new era, but some of cEvin Key's synth blurps and burps, and the vocal autotune/formant effects, are beginning to get on my nerves... Still, a lot of solid tracks on this one.
http://youtu.be/079BgH_cquk

Oh poo poo, I just realize I did my list backwards/upside down to how people normally do top 10 lists, oh what the gently caress I don't even care.

Rod Hoofhearted fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Dec 30, 2013

Danger - Octopus!
Apr 20, 2008


Nap Ghost
Here are some things I enjoyed this year

Youth Code - Youth Code. Well yeah, obviously

Covenant - Leaving Babylon. Mostly because it was a great return to form with some standout tracks, rather than being wholly awesome. Apart from Europa, I don't think there's been a Covenant album where I haven't been bored by some of the tracks, but the good ones on this (Ignorance & Bliss as a highlight) are so good.

Die Krupps - Machinists of Joy. OH MY GOD DIE KRUPPS ARE GOOD AGAIN, AND EBM SOME OF THE TIME! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYgMQfTR0mM

THYX - Below The City. I've listened to this so much. I love Mind.In.A.Box and THYX have a sound that's similar to them (for obvious reasons, since they're a side project), but no one else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLsefmZNnaQ

Charli XCX - True Romance. Obligatory pop album. Once you get past the cyberdog clothes+platform boots trendy alternative chic and the oh-so-gothic-hipster-pop-it's-ok-to-like-media-darling thing, Charli XCX is releasing amazing pop music that is incredibly catchy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtrHH1BDlzk

Klangstabil - Shadowboy. I really, really love Klangstabil although a few of my facebook friends got their internet rage on about the hip-hop influence on this album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W988FBUcZQc

Honourable mentions: the new Ivardensphere seems great but I think it's the kind of thing that'll grow on me rather than grabbing me at the first listen; I got the latest Pet Shop Boys albm for christmas so haven't actually listened to it fully yet. There have been a slew of sparkly synthpop tracks that are actual, you know, pop music, but too many to list here. There's also an ESA album that I haven't got yet but I assume I'm going to love because Jamie Blacker can Do No Wrong.

Kids of the Apocalypse are pretty good too, but rather far from this genre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG61Rf_ZaMg

Also, Patenbrigade: Wolff released the perfect song this year, although I always say that because I love P:W https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfehytRBPk

I haven't listened to much new music on the rhythmic noise/idm/whatever end of things this year. Partly because there's a lot of IDM-tinged stuff that really doesn't do anything for me, and partly because most of my irl friends aren't into the noiser side of electro-industrial so I haven't had many good reccomendations outside this thread. I plan to remedy that in 2014.

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



I didn't buy or listen to a lot of music this year. My 18-year-old self would be horrified.

The only albums that really stuck with me this year were BLACK, Blutengel - Monument, Yeezus, and, well, to be quite honest, my own album (well, I made that thing for myself to listen to, so...). I mean I bought and loved other stuff too, like Weapon, Echogenetic and Conopoly, but I just... Didn't listen to a lot of music this year apart from the four first mentioned. I've found that nowadays I usually start playing around with my synths and poo poo when previously I would've put on an album. It's also been a pretty stressing year due to my studies and I also haven't has as much money for music as before, so oftentimes I just haven't had time for or felt like listening to music.

However, starting running / exercising has increased my music listening by a bit, but even then I've mostly listened to older albums (or Yeezus, which is just a fantastic running album).

I dunno guys v:shobon:v

a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Dec 31, 2013

boo_radley
Dec 30, 2005

Politeness costs nothing
Oh, and from the "I remember releases from the start of the year" category:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIRoDyvWj8k

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Huh, Patenbrigade: Wolff is offering their entire back catalogue in digital format for 20 euros.

Babby Sathanas
May 16, 2006

bearbating is now adorable
Thing about Project Pitchfork is that everything they release is so face meltingly good, that when you think about great things you've listened in the past year, it's just a given that PP made another one-of-the-best-cds-ever during it. So you never really think about it.

Danger - Octopus!
Apr 20, 2008


Nap Ghost

Halloween Jack posted:

Huh, Patenbrigade: Wolff is offering their entire back catalogue in digital format for 20 euros.

They used to offer it all for free in mp3 format. I have no idea how they actually -sold- cds, other than to me.

The Cleaner
Jul 18, 2008

I WILL DEVOUR YOUR BALLS!
:quagmire:

CAT rear end now!!! posted:

I've found that nowadays I usually start playing around with my synths and poo poo when previously I would've put on an album.

Let me be the first to say welcome to the club and that it all goes downhill from here.

Next you'll be skipping major concerts, lusting after eurorack modules and collecting your pee in jars.

teethgrinder
Oct 9, 2002

The only album I have to add to the albums-of-the-year conversation that I haven't seen yet, is Fearless by Legend: https://soundcloud.com/legend-band

DeusExMachinima
Sep 2, 2012

:siren:This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!:siren:

Put this loser on ignore immediately!
As a "happy" NYE "gift" I give you Combichrist's latest single. :v:

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




teethgrinder posted:

The only album I have to add to the albums-of-the-year conversation that I haven't seen yet, is Fearless by Legend: https://soundcloud.com/legend-band

That's a 2012 release.... but hey, it'd be fun to see everyone's "Top 10 New to You" list.

teethgrinder
Oct 9, 2002

Ah definitely new to me. I couldn't find a date printed anywhere on the album, and they're a little tough to find information on.

Molestationary Store
May 21, 2007

DeusExMachinima posted:

As a "happy" NYE "gift" I give you Combichrist's latest single. :v:

Wow those vox. Distortion, bad screamo, repeat. ...oh man and that chorus. Are they trying to be as terrible as possible on purpose? The track itself isn't all that bad I guess.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
I guess Andy wasn't joking about the redneck thing.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




Pope Guilty posted:

I guess Andy wasn't joking about the redneck thing.

Someone needs to strand the dude somewhere awful like West Texas, see if he still loves confederate flags and redneck bullshit after dealing with the real thing.

Dominus Vobiscum
Sep 2, 2004

Our motives are multiple, our desires complex.
Fallen Rib

LabyaMynora posted:

Someone needs to strand the dude somewhere awful like West Texas, see if he still loves confederate flags and redneck bullshit after dealing with the real thing.

Hasn't he been living in Atlanta for a while now?

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

The new Dead When I Found Her cover tape is pretty cool. But seriously gently caress tape releases. Got rid of my record player, and sure as hell not going to go buy a tape deck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oDNPdxOfU

a_gelatinous_cube fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Jan 1, 2014

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Quirk
Oct 11, 2004

You might surprise yourself.
These were the best albums of 2013:

#1 Mindless Self Indulgence - How I Learned to Stop Giving a poo poo And Love Mindless Self Indulgence

A co-worker said "This reminds me of lazer tag", another co worker proclaims "GAWD, didn't we just hear this song?!"(no we didn't) It's snarky and sarcastic and MSI, but this is the album Jimmy Urine throws his hands up in the air while yelling "gently caress this! Whatever!" while the same arpeggio synth is in every song to the same hyper beat. Every single song on this album owns and if it turns out to be the last MSI album, they'll be going out on the perfect note. The only song that doesn't rule is the song about Anonymous, gently caress that song I don't want to hear a whole god drat song about Anonymous. This is the fastest and energetic MSI to date and you can tell just from the tone this feels like a fareware and can you blame him? No one has any fire in this stagnant genre to do something unique anymore.

It Gets Worse
Kill You All In A Hip Hop Rage
Slit My Wrists
I Am Not Here To Make Any Friends

#2 Killer Instinct (2013) soundtrack

The original soundtrack from 1995 is one of my first and favorite industrial albums. I don't play these newfangled games, but this soundtrack only made my #2 spot because there's still two more tracks to be released. They are made to be remixed because the music is not a linear track, it changes depending on the intensity of the game's action, so you have these monster 7 minute masterpieces on youtube people have clipped together. When I picture what rock "in the future" sounds like, this is what comes to mind. And when I'm pissed off, I want to rock out, I want to dance, I want to break to something that makes me go "I've never heard something like this before, and you can tell that these are the styles I hope the rest of the music world evolves into as we go further into the 2010s.

Main Theme (looped for half an hour)
An angry woman screaming for 7 minutes
Only pop song of 2013 I dig

#3 Birthday Massacre - Hide and Seek

This came out in 2012 but I had a hard time trying to listen to it for several reasons, so I'm going to pretend it came out in 2013 with a clear head since nothing else grabbed me. This album was The Birthday Massacre growing up, realizing something non tangible is gone you always took for granted, and figuring out where the path leads now. Along the way, there's no harm in waxing nostalgic for times past, but it's time to go on now. That's what it expressed to me and that's what it left me with. I feel "Down" is probably the greatest example of that. During the Pins and Needles tour I had a great time hanging with them and gave them a CD of demos I hoped might give them ideas, I like to pretend "Leaving Tonight" was thier take on something I did, but basic repetitive basslines aren't exactly unique. Michael left me a blog comment years ago saying they think my music is cool. I'm going to keep pretending, maybe one day I can get another big hug from Chibi.

Leaving Tonight
Down
The Long Way Home

Life works too well for the people that like this kind of music I feel to express what I want from it. Adios industrial, there's just something not there I need from you. I came, I saw, dear god I tried. Words can not explain how hard I loving tried. Now someone's gotta make something different or it's forever dead as poo poo. I'm putting Quake 2 back in my CD player on loop.

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