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To further answer Funbox's question: Gavin Harrison & 05ric have two albums out ("Drop" and "Circles") that are chock full of odd time signatures. I'm a drummer, and I would love to play to this if I was able to imitate Gavin...but alas, not yet. Also, no one's mentioned Don Ellis yet. His bands have put out some crazy tunes. For instance, on the album "Tears of Joy" there's a song called "Bulgarian Bulge". It's in 33/16. Basically anything you pick up from Don Ellis will be mathematically challenging and fun to listen to.
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d0grent posted:They're definitely very closely related, but I think prog rock tends to have mostly really long drawn out songs and "math rock" tends to be more energetic. Prog Rock is an actual genre of rock though so you have a point. I'd say Math Rock is a type of Prog Rock. Prog can be long and drawn out, or a bunch of shorter songs with a constant theme throughout the album (concept albums), or it can just be songs with crazy time signatures. Dream Theater, for example, does have many longer songs, but they also have a bunch of shorter ones with odd time signatures. "Dance of Eternity", for one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dSztjpJNNk (6:14 is only "long" by pop standards) or perhaps "Ytse Jam": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5OmzUEm504 But yes, the bands you'd tend to label "Math Rock" tend to be more aggressive than, say, Yes, or King Crimson (for the most part), the godfathers of Prog, in general. Though The Power To Believe has some of their "heaviest" stuff on it: "Level Five" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujVNpbyImzU "Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8xLsZh2v2g (albeit, the "crazy stuff" is just alternating subdivisions of 5's and 6's to make a phrase of 11/8) or "Elektrik" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wd3NUrBm_I
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Biscuit! posted:I just found out about this group and I will not let this thread die! They're called NI and they're French. They kind of remind me of some of my favorite Mr. Bungle's stuff, but it definitely belongs on this thread. I'm sorry if they've been posted already, but NI is a difficult name to look for. Thanks for these links! These guys are amazing! I bought both of their albums on their bandcamp. I loved the Monty Python references that bookend their latest album.
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Cymbal Monkey posted:My mates Chiyoda Ku have just put out their first full length and it's ace. I honestly think they're one of the best bands in Britain right now (RIP Cleft) and you should buy their album. You should give them all your money because they recently had the van they were all living in stolen, with basically all their possessions. It's been a super rough year for them and I'm really hoping this album does well, they need it and they deserve it. Listened to it, dug it, and bought it. Thanks for introducing them! I’ve been looking for something to fill the Cleft void, and this’ll do nicely for a bit.
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