[b]Faure - Pavane[/b]
I got a (the?) classical version.

It's quiet, sounds good, what does it remind me of?
... Autumn? Sitting around a crackling fireplace?
Pizzicatto cello goes throughout until... the loud burst.
It stops for a bit, but then comes back.
Theres a minor scale or mode used, but it doesn't sound sad or anything bad, it just sounds right.

There dont seem to be that many instruments playing, just a few strings-bowed and pizzicato, a clarinet, maybe some brass.. maybe not. Its hard to actively listen to, a passive listening makes it sink in so much better. It would be really good mood music if it was cold and the fireplace was going.

Geez, I dont have that much to say about it.. its very warm, slow and calming, really nice.
I'm definitely keeping this one, and itll go on the calm-only playlist too.
Though I didnt say much.. I have nothing bad to say about it.
10/10

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[b]Squarepusher - Tetra-Sync[/b] - ive described it enough on the last few pages
[b]Gordian Knot - Sing Deep Mountain[/b] - ooh. I changed my mind on the GK song, this one is my current favourite by them.

both songs are 9 minutes so Green rectangle alert!

^I'll do alec empire next time, cause I found it :D

[b]Squarepusher - Tetra-Sync [/b]

starts off with some british speak. hah. and then the drummer plays around with cymbals. i like that. synths sweeping in background. i like that. drums getting complex. a little guitar here and there. TONS of reverb and spacey effects loading everything. the drums even have some on them. its color is a deep dark black. with white flares. wow. i thought this was live at first, now they have this little beat going making it sound like a scratched vinyl album. and wow the bassist is playing up high on the D string with tons of blurpy mids, and then the synth "wowz"ing in behind him and you have a keyboard line behind that, nice soft and melodic. the drums are just as complex but have turned dance style. bass comes in again, midi sounding. eerie and trancey at the same time. eloquent and hyper. wow the song somehow faded from nice and peaceful to quirky and robotic and my head is spinning. very chilling. wow. now some super fast slap bass. im liking that. OUCH what was that. YIKES there again. is my head exploding? i dont really know! are robots taking over the earth as i type this? quite possibly. now we have snare rudiments. it seems the cyborgs brought their marching band with them. AH NO DONT SWEEP ME UP IN YOUR ROBOTIC ARM ROBOT MAN. boom. and are they grinding up planets? ah... nice melancholic drums work again. work that hi-hat, baby. theres a guitar. whos that doing here? goodbye.


that song stole my sanity and returned it back in a few rugged pieces. 9.3/10

i recommend (some songs you may have to get specifically off me at soulseek (joshmay41465)):
[b]
chromelodeon - wily's castle

lustmord - black star

navicon torture technologies - the pit
[/b]

please.

[b]Lustmord - Black Star[/b]


Minimalist





Slow





Dark space





Howling





But...
some light comes through.





I'm feeling sick, and this kind of music seems ok now.
Anti-active.
If I was well.. I probably would want something more active.





15 minutes long and not much happens.
The name fits well- its dark but there are glimmers of light too.
Theres not enough stuff in there for me, way too much space. The calmest/most minimalist stuff I'd listen to has more than Black Star.
I can't say it was bad, but its not something I'd get all excited about with the minimalism or darkness of it all.
5.5/10


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[b]Gordian Knot - Sing Deep Mountain[/b] a 9 minute technical-heavy-melodic-prog-rock work (of genius)

dibsamajigs.

sorry. undibs. i have searched for THREE DAYS and cant find the file. maybe list some alternatives? :)

umm, you could get it from me on soulseek.
but youre not on, so in the meantime... heres a bunch of songs that I was planning to use for this in the future..

[b]Curse Ov Dialect - Shamans[/b] ... experimental hip hop, for which you'll need probably soulseek to find
[b]Solotaro - A Walk With Fate[/b] .. experimental trip-hip-hop.. [url]http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/ozmusicmonth/02/mp3/Solotaro.mp3[/url]
[b]The Grand Silent System - Stint The Obey[/b] experimental ethnico-jazz-rocka [url]http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=3438[/url]
[b]Anathema - Alternative 4[/b] way creepy ambirock

anyone going to do this? i cant find the song.

what about the GK one? I sent it to you.. or at least someone with the same name as you..

haha yeah i have that one. but it wasnt part of your recommendations. :p i'll do it though.

[b] gordian knot - sing deep mountain[/b]

-starts off with a like drop A bass intro and some way dowtuned drums. pretty guitar layers over top of a beat that sounds evil. something about this song gives it this quality that is just sounds like an unpatterned jam. things are too random, loose, etc. thats weird because GK isnt known for that. there are some nice shredfests every now and then that sound great, but whenever its just soft easy jamming this really doesnt do anything for me. decent, but nothing to go crazy over. 6.7/10

i recommend:

[b]
coil - broccoli
damien rice - the blower's daughter
dillinger escape plan - sugar coated sour
[/b]

This thread kind of died for a while..

[b]Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter[/b]

Starts with gentle guitar strumming and a voice. Sounds like it's a good voice for singing, which should be good for a gentle acoustic song. Got some strings coming in in the background now. So far his voice actually seems so-so.. mostly it's good, and is highlighted by the high part he does on "Can't take my eyes off you", but at other times it seems like it was about to waver and crack, which is annoying me slightly. I like the strings on the chorus'..he's singing high now, around 3:30, and I can't decide whether I really like it or whether I think it sounds stupid.

Well, it certainly wasn't terrible - I liked his voice (sometimes), and the use of strings - but the song seemed lacking. Maybe he has other songs I'd like more. I think 6.5/10 for this one, for the quality of the tools but the lack of anything really good having been crafted.

Songs:
Alec Empire - [i]The Path of Destruction[/i] (metal/technodancethingy)
Einsturzende Neubauten - [i]Ende Neu[/i] (industrial/experimental) - if possible get the live version, as it has a good (not guitar) solo at the start.
Mr Bungle - [i]Slowly Growing Deaf[/i], [i]Squeeze Me Macaroni[/i] or [i]Carousel[/i] (experimental, from their funkier album)

i'm sorry, i meant to suggest [i]cannonball[/i] by him...his lyrics really are genius.

anywho im going to be away from home for the next week, with only 56k connection, so i cant really check this stuff out. i'm going to be back in full force next week, so you folks better be getting ready. this thread's going to move at warp speed :cool:

hehe.

That made me feel wonderful..I'm on 56K all the time.

I'm slowly bringing everyone down to my level :cool:

56k.... that doesnt stop me from finding and getting stuff
being away for 4 days does slow me down though :p

[b]Alec Empire - Path Of Destruction[/b]

quiet stringed intro, grimly sounding. some talk of a bleak future.
and bang- it goes pretty hard.. core, heavy industrial electronic drums with a techno sounding "doosh" bass drum. he screams it up a fair bit.
its the soundtrack of a mechanical soccer riot

its got its ups and downs, quiet and soft, then loud and hard (most of the time)
it speeds up lots towards the end and finishes pretty hard. the outro.. cant even hear it right now, probably doesnt matter

well... its heavy electronic/industrial music with lots of yelling, so if you liked metal and wanted to get into techno, or vice versa.. this would probably be a good crossover song. However, I'm not. I havent heard much of this kind of music... and I dont think I will be after it in the forseeable future. I dont see myself liking this song much, maybe if I get angry.. but thats rare.

6/10

[b]Curse Ov Dialect - Shamans[/b] ... experimental hip hop, for which you'll need probably soulseek to find
[b]Solotaro - A Walk With Fate[/b] .. semi-experimental trip-hip-hop.. the link is up a few posts^

[B][U]Solotaro - A Walk With Fate [/U] [/B]
It starts off with a beat very reminiscent of the streets. Then some scratching comes in which blows that comparison away. Nice women vocals come in with a very trippy sense to them. Some guy comes in and starts talking about hits and breasts, (Also kittens). It seems very different then most of the other rap I have heard. Gets kind of repetitive like most rap songs. The women’s vocals come back in, I like them alot. The guy comes back in..he is boring. The lyrics seem to have substance just I don't like his voice that much. Scratching solo makes it a little interesting and then we get back to the very strange women vocals, which are awesome. The rest of the song is just backing back and forth between the women vocals and the rapper.

It was decent, not my kind of music though.

[B]6.4/10[/B]

[U]
[B]Songs:[/B][/U]

[I]Damien Rice - Eskimo ( Acoustic Opera :))

Velvet Chain - Strong ( Trippy Alternative )

Shabutie - Godfather's Lollipop ( Porn Rock )[/I]

[b]Velvet Chain - Strong[/b]

Starts with a sort of hip-hop-ish beat and some female vocals in the background. Then the full song actually kicks in. Simple but kinda nice bassline. Guitars playing a sort of light little ditty. I'm starting to not like the vocals as much now. Not bad, but they seemed to have more promise at the beginning part. I'm a big fan of great soothing female vocals, so this song's vocals has a lot of competition. Not a whole lot changing, this is getting sort of repetitive... A bit more, still more of the same... Eventually fades out.

6/10

Not good, not bad. Too repetitive (saying a lot coming from someone who likes post-rock). Had promise, didn't live up to it.

-[b]The Pocket Dwellers - Shine[/b] - Rap/funk/jazz band, this is a mellower song.
-[b]Calexico - Bloodflow[/b] - Seen them called alternative country, but I'm not sure I agree... Not sure what else to call them, though. From my favorite album (The Black Light), which never seems to get recognition.
-[b]Gruvis Malt - Malaise[/b] - Jazzy rap/rock
-[b]The Cardigans - Iron Man[/b] - Lounge-y indie-pop, covering the Sabbath song

Bump.

I didn't realise Kazoo was past the dibs stage. Maybe you should've bumped the thread with a new post.

shotgun.


[b]the cardigans - iron man[/b]

Welcome back :thumb:

Got your message last night, but I was disconnected sometime before I came and saw it.

Bump.

Slow download eh?

Death Cab For Cutie - President Of What?

someone else take it. i have literally searched for all of those files several times a day the past few days. no dice. :(

Yeah man, the search on Soulseek hasn't been working very good lately (if at all). Most of those shouldn't be too hard to find. The Cardigans should be very easy to find, and the others not-so-easy but still not too hard.

Bands that turned up hundreds of results a few months ago have barely been giving me anything at all now. Especially the past couple days.

Yeah, I'd noticed that as well. I still found some results though, mostly for the Cardigans and Calexico. They're akk queued though, so if anyone wants to jump in ahead of me, go for it.

Possible dibs.

I'll delete this if not. The Cardigans one jumps from 15-20 minutes on download to 3 hours. :-/

ook, i wanna get some of these songs, but.... i'm scared. basically last couple of times i had kazaa my computer got loads of viruses... are there any other programs that are ok for this? whats soulseek like?

soulseek is good.. though I did find cydoor on my computer.. and those files created on the same day that I got soulseek.. but I removed it and everything still works.
just dont get .exe and similar files if you are worried about viruses.

I'll do Gruvis Malt or Pocket Dwellers if Trooper doesnt get the song

[url]www.slsknet.org[/url] for Soulseek, I think.

[b]The Cardigans- Iron Man [/b]

Ooh. this song is Groooovy. :cool: Very relaxing. Starts off with that nice guitar riff and the drums. Ah, I was wondering about that. It's a cover of Black Sabbath's. The singing is quite different (very different). They make the song a lot more jazzy and funky. I like it alot. Now is that a triggered drumset? or Electronic one maybe? It has nice little guitar mini-solos before the singer comes in. This is truly a relaxing song. Definately a good cover of Iron Man. At 2:00 minutes in, it changes a bit. Gets a bit calmer. Nice guitar riff through this part. I love the singers voice. 2:45 it goes back to normal. Nice little keyboard riff. (I think it's a keyboard...:confused:) Very good song indeed. ("OH IRONMAN...") :cool: Around 3:30, a nice little solo again, before the singer goes into a large ammount of "Boop boo bee doop doo bee boops". Then the song fades out. That is a very nice song.

9/10 Nice :cool:

Praxis- Cold Rolled and Iron Dub
Praxis- Seven Laws of Woo
The Gathering- Great Ocean Road