Enotron 08.18.10

holy shit...gonna listen to the entire thing. such a sweet idea

Iamthe Nightstars 08.18.10

neat

Counterfeit 08.18.10

its like.....good.

porch 08.18.10

well this whole blog thing didn't work out too well did it

AngelofDeath 08.18.10

lolwut

Enotron 08.18.10

it's super pretty

eternium 08.18.10

IT SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE HAMMOCK LOL. This is badass.

vanderb0b 08.18.10

Downloaded this and listened to the whole thing. If Sigur Ros released this, it would have a 4.3 average rating, just saying.

Kiran 08.18.10

lmao

robertsona 08.18.10

haha yeah found this a little while ago anjd posted it on here only to find to people had posted it already also i actually dont think it's those milwaukee guys; it's some other dude and they just said they did it lol. but maybe not

Synesthete 08.18.10

if Sunn O))) wrote pop songs

robertsona 08.18.10

i think this is inifinitely more comparable to a bunch of other ambient artists rather than sunn O)))

fr33convict 08.18.10

woah this is awesome.

FlawedPerfection 08.18.10

Yeah I mean I didn't break this or anything, but wanted to make a blog post about it and make the Inception joke.

Gyromania 08.18.10

"Joke or not, what the track proves is, at its finest, ambient music takes all of the simplicity that makes pop music so accessible and lays it bare before us. It’s what Hammock does, it’s what Sigur Ros does, and apparently, in the second level of Christopher Nolan’s dreamworld, it’s what Justin Bieber does as well." I'm pretty sure this wouldn't work with anything else, and Sigur Ros don't do this

robertsona 08.18.10

hes not talking about the actual process lmao

Misc 08.18.10

wtf why is this so good.l

robertsona 08.18.10

altho i think it would be funny if it was revealed that all sigur ros songs sped up 800% are really snippets of jbiebs tracks

porch 08.18.10

why wouldn't it work with anything else

Crysis 08.18.10

i don't understand how can it be so good

Fugue 08.18.10

this is like the best thing ever.

Gyromania 08.18.10

"hes not talking about the actual process lmao" ...

robertsona 08.18.10

yr comment to me seemed to imply that you thought the blogger was saying that sigur ros slowed down pop songs sorry if that wasnt what you were implying

GentlemanGaGa 08.18.10

Lol

Gyromania 08.18.10

"it’s what Sigur Ros does"

Enotron 08.18.10

he's saying that sigur ros achieve the same atmosphere as this song, not the actual musical technique

FlawedPerfection 08.18.10

"ambient music takes all of the simplicity that makes pop music so accessible and lays it bare before us" does not mean "ambient music slows down pop songs by 800%"

WoggleBunny 08.18.10

=o =0 =O *EXPLODES*

porch 08.18.10

"at its finest, ambient music takes all of the simplicity that makes pop music so accessible". that's what he said, not slowing shit down by 800% jesus

porch 08.18.10

my last comment was 800% slower than the ones before it that said the same thing

Gyromania 08.18.10

sweeping generalizations jesus

Gyromania 08.18.10

ambient music was started by Erik Satie, he wasnt accessible at all.

Enotron 08.18.10

"takes the simplicity that makes pop so accessible" he was saying it took the simplicity, not the accessibility

Gyromania 08.18.10

if you want to infer that most ambient around today is generic and therefore "pop" then that's a different argument

Enotron 08.18.10

but he wasn't saying that about ambient music

Enotron 08.18.10

also accessibility doesn't necessarily mean it's generic.

Gyromania 08.18.10

it was a sweeping generalization

Enotron 08.18.10

it wasn't a generalization, you guys just disagree on how one could define ambient music. he was saying that it is relatable to pop in terms of it's minimalism/simplicity but presents it in a completely different context

Gyromania 08.18.10

"Joke or not, what the track proves is, at its finest, ambient music takes all of the simplicity that makes pop music so accessible and lays it bare before us" that is definitely a generalization

Enotron 08.18.10

perhaps, but any statement addressing ambient music as a genre can be construed as generalized. so perhaps it's a generalization, but I agree with the basic premise.

Deviant. 08.18.10

Way too much flip flopping in this thread

robertsona 08.18.10

"ambient music was started by Erik Satie, he wasnt accessible at all." um what, i mean whether or not "ambient music" was actually started by satie is not very stable at all, but even if he did, gymnopedies (the ones that are usually credited with this "ambient" thing) are very accessible

luci 08.18.10

Sigur Bieber. This rules so much.

robertsona 08.18.10

id say brian eno is the creator of ambient music; stuff like it sort of existed before and gymnopedies etc contained strokes of ambient but to call pieces like that "ambient" is a stretch; i think stuff like ambient 1 music for airports is the first thing that can comfortably be called "ambient" not like "ambient-esque classical" or whatever but maybe thats just me anyway WHAT

Enotron 08.18.10

hehe...furniture music

Enotron 08.18.10

robertsona: i'd disagree. usually the innovators of a genre don't have any intention or even relate their music to the genre. sort of like how rites of spring or embrace had this anti-emo state of mind to the label and how they were associated with it, but they did start the basic sound to what's associated with the genre. perhaps the same could be said for erik satie. though eno did contribute a lot more.

Skimaskcheck 08.18.10

i wonder if Beiber knows about this i hope he doesn't

Enotron 08.18.10

i can imagine him twitter: lol i heard the u smile remix it was weird lol only listened to like one minute

robertsona 08.18.10

mine isnt even about "intention" as much as it is that i dont really consider satie "ambient". it has strokes of ambient and certainly foreshadowed it, but i dont think it was "ambient". whereas i consider eno's "ambient" stuff to be ambient no doubt

8bit 08.18.10

baffled

elephantREVOLUTION 08.18.10

this is so awesome.

HumanGenome 08.18.10

gr1m

porch 08.18.10

"you people"

porch 08.19.10

math was never my strong point

witchxrapist 08.19.10

post rock nice

Skimaskcheck 08.19.10

"altho i think it would be funny if it was revealed that all sigur ros songs sped up 800% are really snippets of jbiebs tracks" ahahah

qwe3 08.19.10

saw this yesterday. so cool

witchxrapist 08.19.10

i wonder if this method can work for other shitty bands

robertsona 08.19.10

i love how at points the vocals get sort of muddled and then the wash (i.e. the drums, i believe) comes in and clears it all away it's like watching a sea tide come in over and over again, and that sea tide is somehow bringing in angelic voices or something yeah

LeRequiem 08.19.10

4 minutes x 8 = 32 minutes. 8 = 8.00 = 800% U Smile x 800% = ambient. 4 minutes x 87.5% = 3,5 minutes. amidoinitrite?

robertsona 08.19.10

"I can't believe this "800% slower" thing has gone unchallenged. It's 87.5% slower. "800%" slower would be the original speed x7 and played backwards." yeah i put this up timidly because i havent quite worked this out in my head but yeah pretty positive youre really wrong

KILL 08.19.10

well that was cool

robertsona 08.19.10

"4 minutes x 87.5% = 3,5 minutes." although this is wrong too, he's saying it's 87.5 percent slower, so it wouldnt be shorter. i could put that more eloquently but yeah

robertsona 08.19.10

it's getting harder to tell these days

Enotron 08.19.10

boxxxxxy

KILL 08.19.10

fucking bitch

Enotron 08.19.10

that would be so awesome if you did

AnotherBrick 08.19.10

where can i download?????????????

robertsona 08.19.10

jfyi this is the guy im like 90 percent sure actually created it http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower http://www.mediafire.com/?aenvebe86u0d7ha here is a download

crowing51 08.19.10

i wonder if this method can work for other shitty bands [2]

FlawedPerfection 08.19.10

:(.

Fugue 08.19.10

"http://www.mediafire.com/?aenvebe86u0d7ha here is a download" I love you.

bewareofdog 08.19.10

It's 1/8th of the original speed. 1/8th = 12.5% So this is 12.5% of the original speed, or 87.5% slower than the original. Dave is correct.

robertsona 08.19.10

nah ur wrong

Gyromania 08.19.10

Dave is always correct

Yazz_Flute 08.19.10

That was like...Godspeed haunting.

Bfhurricane 08.19.10

35 minutes wtf that's awesome

HerbieSaysHello 08.19.10

Hey guys, the program this was made in is paulstretch. http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ Insert any song and enjoy.

Electric City 08.19.10

up there among the greatest things that have ever happened

TMobotron 08.19.10

"It's 1/8th of the original speed. 1/8th = 12.5% So this is 12.5% of the original speed, or 87.5% slower than the original. Dave is correct." It is 1/8th the speed, but I'm having a really hard time deciding if you can even call something "some percentage slower".

Gyromania 08.19.10

this is seriously one of, if not THE best song of the year so far

Poet 08.19.10

This is amazing

JWT155 08.19.10

Really dig this.

Gyromania 08.19.10

You should all check out the original

Damrod 08.19.10

The thing is, when you download it and speed it up with an audio editor like Audacity, you actually get (more or less) the original song

Scenegirlsdontbang 08.19.10

This can only mean one thing. If you speed up Sigur Ros 800% it sounds like Justin Bieber.

lancebramsay 08.19.10

Setting aside the mathematical errors, this song is quite excellent. Definitely reminds me of Sigur Ros along the lines of high reverb and high pitched singing.

lobby 08.19.10

on the other hand, we should speed this up heaps, create heaps of distortion and see what Jbieb sounds like when he give the noise genre a go...

robertsona 08.19.10

"This can only mean one thing. If you speed up Sigur Ros 800% it sounds like Justin Bieber." good joke dude!!!!

Enotron 08.19.10

i thought it was a pretty clever joke

robertsona 08.19.10

"i thought it was a pretty clever joke" yea but i made it first

Spare 08.19.10

dude it's not actually by "photon wave orchestra" that was just a band some dude on /mu/ made up to troll people it's actually by this guy http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

Spare 08.19.10

also yeah if you want to do this yourself just download this http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

Meatplow 08.19.10

goddamn it I was using that tool a while back now every man and his dog is using it

Spare 08.19.10

yeah it's pretty cool

Meatplow 08.19.10

it's giving me the shits because I thought I cottoned on to a good way to get some ambient textures and use them tastefully now its going to be driven into the ground as a fucking gimmick gg whoever the fuck put this on Digg or whatever

Spare 08.19.10

well i guess now you'll have to think of a more original way to make ambient textures rather than slowing them down a shitload won't you!

Meatplow 08.19.10

i'll fart into a mic and use paulstretch to slow it down 800%

Fort23 08.19.10

did you all hear about the kanyebieberraekwon collab?

Spare 08.19.10

'plow isn't that pretty much what aaron does

Meatplow 08.19.10

yeah I introduced him to that program ;)

Spare 08.19.10

lol

robertsona 08.19.10

god damnit slowing things down is so mainstream now

GulliKyro 08.19.10

A nobel effort but even slowed down by a factor of 8 the beeb tentacles eminating from his voice continue to annoy.

Scenegirlsdontbang 08.19.10

This shit is fun. Just tried it with midnight in a perfect word And Whoa.

TRMshadow 08.19.10

Whoa, this is Awesome! How do you download it?

robertsona 08.19.10

http://www.mediafire.com/?aenvebe86u0d7ha

crowing51 08.20.10

dude i just did this to meshuggah and emmure wtf is all i have to say

AlexTM510 08.20.10

i was just listening to hammock and then now this wtf lol

AlexTM510 08.20.10

reaction side this is strangely cool

Eclectic 08.20.10

Holy shit this is awesome!

JayVex 08.20.10

Sigur Bieber [2] Whoa, 35 minutes. That's longer than a standard Bieber album ;)

Electric City 08.20.10

aaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaahhhhhhh

FourSquare20 08.20.10

I paulstretched the song Souvlaki Space Station by Slowdive and the results were out of this world. It's so fun to mess with this program.

TheFantasticDangler 08.21.10

so amazing

wyankeif1337 08.21.10

i just used that shit on Rosetta's Revolve. wow...

Greggers 08.21.10

4 by Aphex Twin works pretty well with that program

brutebeard 08.26.10

soooo gooooood