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deep dish peat moss

Real talk though there was a rapper who did something very similar to that, I can't remember who it was I think it was Canibus? It was something like... dozens of different tracks recorded in parallel and uploaded to a site with controls to fade between them, they all maintained cadence and rhyme scheme with each other so that you could constantly be shuffling the fader and get a new track each time you played it. It's going to bother me now until I can find it

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deep dish peat moss

Yeah it was Canibus and it was called poet laureate infinity but I can't find a website with a mixing board anymore. This is like the burning of the library of alexandria

You can read about it here if you're interested
http://rapmusic.com/threads/50-hours-of-canibus-poet-laureate-infinity.1345750/

deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 01:01 on May 15, 2017

cda

by Hand Knit

Manifisto posted:

I would be down for recommendations for unconventional/lesser known/more contemporary music that people think works particularly well as an album, where the whole is more than the sum of its parts

not knocking the well-known/famous/deliberately structured "concept" albums, it's just fun to discover stuff that would otherwise get overlooked

I'm not sure I'm the best person to give examples, but OK I'll give it a whirl in the spirit of reciprocity. I saw a piece recently on the 20th anniversary of that dog.'s "Retreat from the Sun" and it reminded me how much I like that album as an album. it is full of what are pretty recognizable elements of the band's sound (lush vocal harmonies juxtaposed with distorted guitar and dissonance, prominent string parts), and they help tie the album together musically, but there's also a sort of thematic . . . earnestness? wistfulness? playful melancholy? . . . it's like reading the diary of a smart, sardonic bipolar teenager, in a good way. and it's just loaded with crunchy pop hooks, and that makes it highly listenable imo.

I think it's even smartly structured, from the slightly sardonic optimism of the opener, "i'm gonna see you" (which was purportedly the main singer/writer's "love letter to the band") to the cheery mock-defeat of the closer, "until the day I die." and there's a definite . . . uh, centerpiece . . . in the middle, the grandiose "annie," probably my favorite track.

apparently that dog. is coming out with a new album this year! I'm excited, but for most people that's probably an occasion to say, "uh, who?"

dang. this album is distilled 90s.

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Sensual Simian

summer jorts
as far as full concept albums go, this is one of my favorites https://youtu.be/9jhZzsykTG4

Not everybody's jam, understandable but it's got depth

savex
Shuffle, every sessions is different...

byob historian

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deep dish peat moss posted:

Can I rap a 30 second verse on your album

:3: totes mcgotes

deep dish peat moss posted:

Yeah it was Canibus and it was called poet laureate infinity but I can't find a website with a mixing board anymore. This is like the burning of the library of alexandria

You can read about it here if you're interested
http://rapmusic.com/threads/50-hours-of-canibus-poet-laureate-infinity.1345750/

ofc im interested :colbert:


tyvm thats real cool
wish id heard about that 10 years ago lol

Ultra Spoot

If anyone's interested King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard made an album called Nonagon Infinity that kinda messes around with that, it's meant to be an infinite loop and can be started on any song and not matter. Not sure if shuffling it works though, but I think it's still pretty interesting and it's a great psych rock album imo.

For listening in general, I think you have to listen to the full album at least a couple times through. I think it's safe to say most artists since like the 70's put at least a little bit of thought into song order ever since albums became the thing to do. As someone who has played rock and metal for a long time it's definitely something I think about, cause having a slower song in between a bunch of faster songs is a totally different feel than having that slow song come last. Plus, every album is kind of a moment captured in time, you know? Like you can make two albums with the same exact band, instruments and equipment and they will sound slightly differrent because you can never quite have the exact same recording environment twice, and you're slightly older, and you probably have slightly different thoughts and emotions going through your head. And that's kind of a beautiful thing I think.

Anyway after you get that full experience take your favorite songs and throw that poo poo on shuffle. Lately though I've been listening to really pretentious metal like opeth and deafheaven where songs are like 10 minutes long so I still do the album thing. Hopefully this was interesting, i love talking about this stuff

Rock Paper Tongue

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mrbradlymrmartin posted:

ive never been much of a songwriter, arranging and engineering feel like my strong points;
the plan is for it to be 99 tracks, some codas, some choruses, some bridges, &c, but no actual songs per se

the idea is that it will be a diff mashup just about every time

the exact tempo wont be maintained but itll all be nice and slow and chill

That sounds like it'd make for some really nice smoking and chilling music, good luck with it!

Twenty Four


Sometimes when hearing a single track from an old album I am particularly fond of, especially when I am not in control of what is playing for whatever of many reasons, I hunger and crave for the usual next song on the album. Maybe it is a musician thing?

deep dish peat moss

I get the same thing but for the next song on the playlist I have that song on, I think that's just a sonic familiarity thing... pattern recognition

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ight8 posted:

I'm the kinda guy who hates his own favorites list. I can't listen to the same song twice in a day. Even songs that sound similar.

serves ya right 4 pickin favorites

Sensual Simian

summer jorts
everybody's saying hells the hippest way to go

https://youtu.be/WehhEw3w31w

DavidAlltheTime

All David...all the TIME!
The Flaming Lips had an album called 'Zaireeka' which comes on four discs, that you play all at the same time. I've heard it, and it's pretty cool.

On Peter Gabriel's 1984 album, 'So', the track 'In Your Eyes' was supposed to be the last track, but the bass fidelity on LPs is worse towards the center of the record, so he put it as the first track on the second side. This has since changed with the remastered CD versions.

During the experimental era of early 70s prog rock, musicians wanted to explore longer form compositions, but were limited to the length of one side of a record. So many of the pieces composed during this era were 20 - 25 mins long (see 'Supper's Ready' by Genesis, 'Echoes' by Pink Floyd, 'Autobahn' by Kraftwerk).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4HfFwVy-h0

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0gsbQKhD8

^ my shiet rt :420:



yea yea yea

tao of lmao

DavidAlltheTime posted:

The Flaming Lips had an album called 'Zaireeka' which comes on four discs, that you play all at the same time. I've heard it, and it's pretty cool.

On Peter Gabriel's 1984 album, 'So', the track 'In Your Eyes' was supposed to be the last track, but the bass fidelity on LPs is worse towards the center of the record, so he put it as the first track on the second side. This has since changed with the remastered CD versions.

That's neat as hell. Thanks for the good post!

cda

by Hand Knit
I own Zaireeka and have played it and it really is weird how CD players actually don't play at the same speeds so if you just let the album run over time it goes farther and farther out of sync

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One of my new projects is going to be putting together a list of my favorite/definitive albums.. and im hopign it wont be filled with white guy bands

byob historian

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lmbo calrissian posted:

One of my new projects is going to be putting together a list of my favorite/definitive albums.. and im hopign it wont be filled with white guy bands

i think its o k if bill evans or john mclaughlin is in your favorite band

cda

by Hand Knit
If it was led by miles Davis it wasn't a white guy band

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cda posted:

I own Zaireeka and have played it and it really is weird how CD players actually don't play at the same speeds so if you just let the album run over time it goes farther and farther out of sync

if u screw up tho im guessing it prob sounds like a car engine filled with pachinko balls instead of oil...

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cda posted:

If it was led by miles Davis it wasn't a white guy band

how very

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-jR8OSXaY&t=489s

tho to be fair, i dont think john mclaughlin is white or even human

best guess wovld be transdimensional being but there really no way of knowing~

byob historian

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King of the Beach posted:

how very

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-jR8OSXaY&t=489s

tho to be fair, i dont think john mclaughlin is white or even human

best guess wovld be transdimensional being but there really no way of knowing~

john mclaughlin wasnt technically in that band, he just showed up in new york and played with them for a week :eng101:

cda

by Hand Knit

King of the Beach posted:

if u screw up tho im guessing it prob sounds like a car engine filled with pachinko balls instead of oil...

The only way to screw it up is not to be out of your mind on psychedelics before you hit play

cda

by Hand Knit
Wait, I thought of another way to screw it up, which is if you hit play and then accidentally kick over a big bucket of your own piss you've been saving for a couple of months and as you're flailing around you subscribe to a bunch of magazines you don't read

cda

by Hand Knit
In the liner notes, Wayne Coyne explicitly says not to do that, but he's not the boss of me

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cda posted:

In the liner notes, Wayne Coyne explicitly says not to do that, but he's not the boss of me

In Fiona Coyne We Trust, all others are old fash

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




mrbradlymrmartin posted:

john mclaughlin wasnt technically in that band, he just showed up in new york and played with them for a week :eng101:

see thats why i need u in my life...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPx4HI7pFLk

byob historian

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

King of the Beach posted:

In Fiona Coyne We Trust, all others are old fash

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




see thats why i need u in my life...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPx4HI7pFLk

speakin of things we need in our lives iirc this was the first song about pot i ever had on cd (!)

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

but the beetles singin it seems they dont like the youtubes very many

byob historian fucked around with this message at 21:15 on May 20, 2017

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mrbradlymrmartin posted:

speakin of things we need in our lives iirc this was the first song about pot i ever had on cd (!)

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

but the beetles singin it seems they dont like the youtubes very many

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM

:lsd:

p sure the first time i heard that was literally like

byob historian

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

King of the Beach posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM

:lsd:

p sure the first time i heard that was literally like



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTyBLrgTfA yeah its been 20 years but i remember it like it was yesterday

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mrbradlymrmartin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTyBLrgTfA yeah its been 20 years but i remember it like it was yesterday



yea im old enough to remember when Olbermannn was on :foxnews:



anways back on topic, i kinda like Bill Maher's Entrance Music...its p hyphy and kinda helps make a man who looks like a Nerds candy kinda intimidating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G92AB8ZG7xY

any idea what kind of drum machine they using there for that??

however it does kinda sound like

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

Impkins Patootie fucked around with this message at 22:06 on May 20, 2017

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byob historian

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

King of the Beach posted:



yea im old enough to remember when Olbermannn was on :foxnews:



anways back on topic, i kinda like Bill Maher's Entrance Music...its p hyphy and kinda helps make a man who looks like a Nerds candy kinda intimidating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G92AB8ZG7xY

any idea what kind of drum machine they using there for that??

however it does kinda sound like

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



yeah that sounds like a sampler to me, maybe a rackmount akai? theyre still popular and they been on like evrything since the late 80s

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