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"it is a tangerine dream cover album yeah"



I don't agree. Tangerine Dream is very much proto-ambient in the vein of Brian Enos' "Ambient 1: Music For Airports"

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Not on Zeit they aren't

this is literally zeit and Phaedra worship my friend.

it’s Berlin school progressive electronic. it’s only “ambient” in that it’s beatless and longwinded.

Album Rating: 5.0

Might be a little biased since I was doing yoga while tripping on mushrooms in the dark for this

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Nice job ryus on lowering you rating a whole 2 points. That's more like it. Still a bit high tho 😂

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Hey Onyx can I do yoga with you

“one thing that’s getting lost here is that BI fund and own all their own music, then license it to the labels. the labels are just distributors, so the band makes all the creative decisions.”

That’s pretty dope actually

A creative dream come true

Not entirely sure, but I think it might be in response to some of the comments in here suggesting that the band's usual listeners can't grasp it cause it doesn't have riffs and cookie monster vox.

The way some folks have latched onto this, complete with perfect scores, does seem to be motivated in part by the fact that it was released to the chagrin of those who were expecting a metal album. Not trying to imply that's your intent specifically, dearest Polygon < 3

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Absolutely my intent tho, nail -> head

lmao at least you're honest

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We'll know for sure once Six Feet Under drops a musique concrete project

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But I see you Norma (I think? Don't want to put words in your mouth), opening the potential gateway into other projects-in-theory by different artists and who knows what different directions those could be pushed.



Particularly now, where all things being equal, there's fewer directions to push new sound in a genre capacity. Like all the talk about hyperpop being the next big thing when it seems like just about all hyperpop (or the digital hardcore stuff that's a sort of flip of that coin) is based around compounding layers and offsetting them just enough to feel like it's pushing a sort of pace to manufacture something more chaotic out of totally familiar ingredients. Not like that hasn't been a thing always, but it seems like there's less ground to break in specific genre terms and the new ground available is the accessibility of computers, and it'd be interesting to see how that could be applied in a different sort to this kind of thing that isn't really touched that frequently anymore



idk, what i grasp these straws for?

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This flows fuckin cool

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Okay yeah I got you. Think I mostly agree, although to a certain extent the people that are willing to treat external genre influence (whether as an addition or a departure) to the extent that it feels like they have something to say in that vein is just something that a certain group of songwriters would have just by dint of that’s who they are as songwriters, and it’d be expressed through the idiosyncrasies of wherever their particular interests lie.



Although now you got me thinking it out, I think you’re point about black metal in this specific case is pre spot on, cause it isn’t like there’s any impulse that attracts that attitude to bm any more than dm, and the scope of that sound into ambiance is generally more accepted just within the genre aesthetics, even if it gets just as stale there in ad nauseam reps. Gotta have an Akhlys or Arizmenda in there to shake up where the snow globe’s settling, and would love to see that happen with this, fucking hope some hip dm upstarts hear you and carry it through



But you’re raising some really fucking interesting points that warrant a better sparring pardner than I’m bringing rn

Ulcerate >

Agreed.

(Sorry, I’m not helping. Good thread)

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Tangerine Incantation: Blood Dream

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‘The way some folks have latched onto this, complete with perfect scores, does seem to be motivated in part by the fact that it was released to the chagrin of those who were expecting a metal album‘



Probably, maybe. I did sort of assume this after hearing it, because it’s just not remarkable in any way, really. So either there’s some tomfoolery going on, or I’m just an oblivious pleb who cannot decipher the supposed brilliance here.



of course it could be both

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then again I don’t remember liking Tangerine Dream much either, so I’m thinking the pleb thing is almost definitely correct either way

Tangerine Dream is generally a lot better than this but this is still alright