Dibs.

*will undibs if going to bed this time*

[i]Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover[/i]

I've never heard this guy. I'm not a real big virtuoso fan, I mean, Satriani and Vai I'll pull out for the occasional listen, but it's not my favourite type of music. Anyway. It starts with a cool, blues sounding run. The intro is just the guitar, soloing. After a while, some instruments come in, and I suppose what is the main riff starts. The riff is ok, but nothing to get excited about. It sounds like a song in a game when you've just finished it, celebration music. He then does a little bit of soloing, then plays the riff, and kind of adds random fills onto that, which sound ok. Then to the 'chorus' where he again does the random additions. At about 2:10, it changes, and he starts going nuts. Briefly, for about 1 second, then plays some very dissonant sounding phrase. At about 2:45 he starts soloing, for good. The solo is pretty good, but nothing I'd call virtuoso. There's some awesome bits, but he lacks the Satriani greatness about him. The main riff AGAIN (It's getting annoying now) and it fades out with a new riff, and some awesome run.

4/10. Bored the hell of me. Some good bits, though.

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Mars Volta - Eunuch Provocateur (Prog rock)
Gerling - Dust Me Selecta (Electronica/rock)
Cynic - Textures (Jazz/Metal)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (Prog rock) Warning: 17 minutes long.
Blackalicious - Chemical Calisthenics (West Coast Hip hop)
And if feeling especially metal:
Nowhere - Genocide ('technical' grind) - Available on Soundclick.com just search for 'Nowhere'.

All available (apart from the Blackalicious one, although it shouldn't be hard to find) in my "Forced Listening" folder on soulseek. My username is manuscriptreplica.

Yeah I probably shouldn't have put virtuoso guitar but I wasn't quite sure what else to put,maybe I should have put instrumental rock. I like that song it's cheesy as **** :)

Dibs

Gerling - Dust Me Selecta

A robotic voice announces the song by chanting the song title. This sounds pretty cool. It sounds like hyper futuristic disco music. The female vocals are okay...it's got some strange 'cut up' backing vocals. I like the chorus...very arranged, ethereal music. This is good music to party along to. Around 1:20 into the song the robotic voice returns saying random stuff, while the female vocalists shows off her voice a bit. This is the kind of music you really shouldn't analyze...it's music you have to absorb. It's a fun song that is easy to dance to. The weakness of this track IMO is that it gets a bit repetitive in the chorus parts. For dance music, it's pretty good. 6.5/10



My picks:

Dälek - Speak Volumes (alt. hip-hop)
Fantômas - Simply Beautiful (ehm..gimme a moment)
Isis - False Light (melodic, experimental alt. metal)

The Ipecac threesome!

Dibs

Extended Dibs... downloading at a rapid pace currently.

Ok here we go:

[i]Isis - False Light[/i]

Starts with some chords over a hi hat, then a melody comes over softly. Then it gets really slow and heavy (well, not that heavy) and some screamo/hardcore kind of vocals, which I don't like much. Then there's a 9/4 bit, and the guitar gets pretty busy. It's pretty good. It's really groovy as well, it doesn't really need the 9/4, but it's cool none the less. Then it goes quiet for a bit, then back to being heavy, but this time, the drummer does kind of a solo, all these fills. After another chorus, it goes to back to 4/4 (I think) but has this really technical riff. Then it goes all ambienty. I like the bass in this bit. There's a guitar solo, or something like it, vvery Omar Rodriguez style, ambient solos. It goes to another slow bit now, with just chords on every bar. it remains like this for a fair bit, there's kind of a synth thing going on somewhere, which I like. At about the 6:00 minute mark, it gets heavy again, still remains slow, sounds very sludgy, Melvins style almost. It does this for a while, then vocals come in, and the song finishes.

7/10 A bit directionless at times, but cool. I liked the quiet bits especially.

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Mars Volta - Eunuch Provocateur (Prog rock)
Cynic - Veil of Maya (Jazz/Metal)
Cynic - Textures (Jazz/Metal) (Instrumental)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (Prog rock) Warning: 17 minutes long.
Blackalicious - Chemical Calisthenics (West Coast Hip hop)
And if feeling especially metal:
Nowhere - Genocide ('technical' grind) - Available on Soundclick.com just search for 'Nowhere'.

All available (apart from the Blackalicious one, although it shouldn't be hard to find) in my "Forced Listening" folder on soulseek. My username is manuscriptreplica.

ok... any songs to recommend
or a bit more reviewage

:P

[QUOTE=blueyxd]ok... any songs to recommend
or a bit more reviewage

:P[/QUOTE]


Yeah, I somehow (I'm sure I didn't do it) pressed 'submit' or something... I don't know.

heh, ok

De-habs

[b]Blackalicious - Chemical Calisthenics[/b]

Funky start, drums and a piano note on the 1 beat. a bit of laugh, "good, can you say it faster" and some scratch.
goes slow for a second.
Then it goes back to the funky beat with a bass line now. Gab (the rapper) is on about.. physics more than chemicals to start with. Then it all stops...

Doubling this seemingly random tom drum thing, Gab says some stuff, then names a bunch of elements..
Back to the normal beat. Fast beat with fast vocals too.
Then this is mad.. this is quite proggy, the beat stop/starts all the time. Unstable "careful" bit is cool, it sounds unstable. I can't explain what it is, it just needs a listen. This is like the Spastic Ink of Rap...

It's usually the funky beat/piano. More rapping about chemicals. I cant really hear what he's saying. But I hear some chemical formulas and names.. and talk of hip hop

Now some horn samples join, more chemical theory, sounds like another guy here.., funky beat for some more, then whoever is rapping now changes the beat then the drums follow him.. now in 6/8, for a bit at least, some strange horns here.

A slow beat again, with some more rapping.

Sample: "All aboard for the night train"

At the end theres a lone snare, it speeds up like a train gathering speed.. Gab says something on each hit... it speeds up some more... a train whistle... even faster, and Gab still keeps up. By the very end it's so fast that its hard to believe he is STILL keeping with the snare, well not at the very end, the drums are way to fast to double with a syllable, but it was still very fast.

well.. I never knew which one Gab was anyway, but it was so madcore.
A very interesting listen, a bit spazzy, but I'm used to Spiral Architect so this is certainly learnable in time.
Not much in the melodics department though, which does help me a bit, but its no biggie.
This is some great work on diversifying and experimenting (no pun intended) in rap music. I hope lots of groups can be inspired from this and build their own great ideas.
8.5/10

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[b]Substitute Inc. - The Chase - Scene 3 and 4[/b] (one song spread over two tracks) - underwater progressive trippy-disco sci-fi rock

[b]Weddings Parties Anything - A Tale They Won't Believe[/b] - piratey rock. 7 minutes. Listen with lyrics - [url]http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caracarol/tale.txt[/url]

[b]Ochre - Horizon[/b] - progish rock, my favourite local band before they broke up, and this is my favourite (recorded) song by them. 7 minutes. Possibly my favourite song at the moment

[b]Cog - Moshiach[/b] - aboriginal tinged heavy rock (the singer is also the guitarist, and both parts aren't easy to do at once) either version is fine - 5:32 or 6:43

I'll dibs.

[i]Cog - Moshiach[/i]

It starts off very ambienty, reminds me of water. A voice says something in a megaphone, and a distorted riff on the guitar starts plugging away. You are right about the aboriginal-tinged bit, the chanting sounds very much like aboriginal chanting, sort of. Now the chanting has stopped, and a distorted bass comes in (yeah!!!) and the drums start playing on the tom, wiht the occasional cymbal hit. The vocals come in, he sounds remarkably like the guy from Incubus. There is another little jam passage, which is in some weird time, now I suppose the chorus is on, which sounds a lot like the verse. Now there's another little breakdown, into an ambient bit, which I'm told is in 9/4. This bit's so cool, there is a guitar filler thing, which is like a solo, but isn't. I like the bass and drums here, they compliment the music very well. There is female backing vocals, just singing along some chords. After the ambience bit, it gets quite heavy, and the drummer hits a lot of cymbals. Very cool. Back to the chorus now, sounds pretty bland after the cool heavy bit. Now some police talk or something, which is so Australian it's not funny (the accent is there, yes) the drummer gets all fidley with his toms again, and the guitars and bass just play straight 8th chords. There is a bit of a riff happening now. Now some cool phrasing, then a bridge sort of thing, which isn't as heavy as the rest of the song with vocals in it. For the outro, the drummer fiddles around on his toms again, giving it a real floating sound, then it slowly comes to an end.

8/10.... I really liked it. I didn't like the chorus/verse, but their instrumental passages are something to behold. Awesome, awesome stuff.

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[i]Mars Volta - Eunuch Provocateur[/i] [b](Prog rock)[/b]
[i]Cynic - Veil of Maya[/i] [b](Jazz/Metal)[/b]
[i]Cynic - Textures (Instrumental)[/i] [b](Jazz/Metal) [/b]
[i]Pink Floyd - Dogs[/i] [b](Prog rock)[/b] Warning: 17 minutes long.
[i]Jaco Pastorius - (Used to be a) Cha-cha[/i] [b](Jazz)[/b] NOT the alternate take, it sucks compared to the original. The original is 8:57 long, and the alternate is 8:49 long. The correct one is in my folder.
And if feeling especially metal:
[i]Nowhere - Genocide[/i] [b]('technical' grind)[/b] - Available on Soundclick.com just search for 'Nowhere'.

All in my soulseek folder "Forced Listening" My username is manuscriptreplica.

Dibs!

I've heard 4 of the five songs you listed...the Pink Floyd and Mars Volta songs are great (provocateur is better than any de-loused track, cicatriz excluded)...but the Cynic ones are pretty rubbish in my opinion. I'm not a fan of technical metal, so perhaps that's the reason. Let alone would I download a 'grindcore' track. The most technical band that I like is Dillinger Escape Plan...but I find them impossible to place in one of them goofy subgenres.

Anyway, the Jaco Pastorius song was of interest to me...I think he was a great bass player. The first song I heard his bass playing on was Joni Mitchells Black Crow...which I prefer to a song with an identical riff, Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin. Anyway I digress...I think Jaco carries that song (Black Crow)...his playing is so dynamic, that the song doesn't need rhythm to establish a good beat. Very impressive indeed.

Here I go:

Jaco Pastorius - Used To Be A Cha-Cha
This is really great chill-out stuff...Jaco's bass playing is the driving force, but I don't analyze it as much. I'm more impressed with the cool piano and flute playing syncronized. It's a really technical track overall. The drummer is playing a mixture of jazz, salsa and Cuban latin music...with frequent use of the toms.Around one and a half minute into the song, the first Jaco solo comes. I love the part around 2:45...with the cool piano and flute melodies...very relaxing. I like the use of ethnic percussion too. A bit before 4 minutes, the flute and piano exchange little solo's. The song seems to intensify from here. The piano players time to show off with a pretty long solo. Jaco's bassline remains steady. Around 7 and a half minutes, the flute comes back for a bit, and the complementary melodies become more focused and well-rounded. It's a very difficult freeflowing jammish track. It's great stuff to listen to once every so much time...but I couldn't digest watching an entire concert listening to this kind of music... eventually the music becomes so technical that it's hard to have a distinct memory of the music that is played in my opinion. I prefer a guy like Charles Mingus, who also writes difficult stuff...but his music usually has a distinct melody that sticks with you. That's what lacks in this track. But on the other hand, these are really talented musicians (not just Jaco), and that deserves some respect. 6.7/10

EDIT: My version is 8:55...but the end chord ends abruptly...I hope I got the right version.

My picks:

Beck - Diamond Bollocks (alternative/prog rock...very recommended)
Tomahawk - Birdsong (hard rock/alternative)
Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks (alternative dance...similiar to The Avalanches)
Ani DiFranco - Hell Yeah (acoustic/urban folk)
Porno For Pyros - Tahitian Moon (alt. rock)

Dibs. I've been wanting to check out Ani for a while.

If it had a bass solo for about 1:30, then you have the right track.

Sorry guys, fu[color=white]c[/color]k-up upon fu[color=white]c[/color]k-up has prevented me from doing this, and now I'm going to my dad's house in half an hour or so. Revoked :(

I'll take it on then while I can

[b]Beck - Diamond Bollocks[/b]

Loser is the only song I know by Beck, so I cant say I know what to expect.

It sounds like elevator music at the start.. harpsichord and "ooh, ahh" stuff.
30 seconds in, it busts into some muse-like distorted bass and drum pattern with the singing, sounds a bit old school rock. "Looking back on some dead world that looks so new"
theres some slightly trippy effects added in.

This may be the chorus, no singing, but drums are going a bit wild, guitar appears, cutting in and out quickly. Then some harder guitar chords
PAUSE for the birds
Harder for a bit.. now it reminds me of the doors... before the sci-fi electronic bit comes in. Very strange compared to the last bit, it sounds good though. It sounds creepy. The vocals fit well.

Some NOISE

Then it returns to the first distorted bass and drums, and now some space invader solo, which keeps on going along with the singing when it returns.
A random guitar bends burst leads into a slow Beatles sounding bit now with lots of flanger effect. He repeats "Looking back on some dead world that looks so new"

Then it busts back to the fast hard bit again, with a guitar semi-solo this time. fading out

Synth strings outro playing the same type of chords, sounds kind of old school again.

For 6 minutes, it seemed to go quickly. There are some really strange music combinations here, very interesting. I thought it would have been the elevator music right through.. but I'm glad it wasn't. I'm not into that older sounding stuff too much, but this was such an offshoot that it didn't really make a difference, it was like hearing a new style of music. I'll surely keep this and get more used to it.
9/10

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[b]Substitute Inc. - The Chase - Scene 3 and 4[/b] (one song spread over two tracks) - underwater progressive trippy-disco sci-fi rock

[b]Ochre - Horizon[/b] - progish rock, my favourite local band before they broke up, and this is my favourite (recorded) song by them. 7 minutes. Possibly my favourite song at the moment

[b]Aghora - Mind's Reality[/b] - melodic technical metal with a great female singer and everyones favourite tech metal bassist, Sean Malone.

Blueser57 on Soulseek, you all know it now. If I'm not on, chillerspoon has the Ochre one whenever he is on.

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I can't dibs :upset:


I can never find any of your stuff and soulseek hates me at the moment :upset:

mm, do I lots of have hard to find stuff, but I added the Aghora on later on since it's more common. I'm on now after 3 days of not being here if anyone's after an FL fix.

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Sorry I dont have time but just am bumping so the thread stays popular

Aghora - Mind's Reality - 4:22

I had written another review but being the numbnuts that I am I accidently deleted it
:(

I've never heard aghora before and I don't know anything about the band members but i've heard alot about them before so I'm looking forward to this.

The song begins with just bass and drums, the bass is quite high in the mix but this isn't really a bad thing considering the complexity of some of it.

The vocals soon enter I wasn't aware that Aghora had a female vocalist, to be honest i'm not a huge fan of her vocals they remind me of a band called madder mortem I saw live once (who were awful :) )
The guitar joins in for the chorus which with bass creates quite a crushing accompaniment (sp?) to the vocals.
The first solo begins at 1:45 the solo isn't especially techinical until the end of it where there is quite a quick well picked run up the neck.
The vocals then rejoin and the song takes on an middle eastern theme.
The second solo begins at about 2:45 this one is alot more technical than the first and has alot of very nice licks in there.

Overall I enjoyed the song the only thing I wasn't a huge fan of was the vocals, although they were technically impressive I just didn't enjoy them with this particular song.

6.5/10

My Recommendations

Mike Oldfield - Altered State ( **** knows what this genre is )
David Saw - Big Deal (Acoustic)
Keane - Bedshaped (Piano indie)

I'd dibs, but your soulseek browse thing isn't working.

Yeah sorry about that soulseek hates me and won't let me browse anyones files and won't let anyone browse mine unfortunately. The keane and mike oldfield one should be pretty easy to find though.

hehe... Mike Oldfield was rather easy to find.

Dibs.

that song is madcore


(sorry to steal your saying blue :p )

Heh, that's ok, I've been trying to get that word more common for a long time. The more people using it, the further it can reach...
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