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Post by rayge on May 24, 2019 16:57:23 GMT
A Sink Ya Teeth - If You See Me
B A The Magnificent Moon - Mildlife
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 17:15:28 GMT
Well, pretty sure I know who put A up...(May be the only other person who knows of that band..lol..)
Vote A
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Post by bungo the mungo on May 24, 2019 17:29:44 GMT
why oh why didn't i draw one of these?
to think that one of them is likely to get 2 points, beggars belief.
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Post by toomanyhatz on May 24, 2019 18:54:25 GMT
Two very heaping helpings of "not my thing." I like minimalist funk a lot in the right hands, but A is just completely lacking in melody or anything other than, as Captain Beefheart so aptly put it, "drumming my heartbeat back into me." G will be along any minute to explain how vital it is and how it's the 2nd coming of ESG.
B is not anything that excites me musically, but it has melody, arrangement, programming that's not a basic preset...all the things A's missing.
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Post by Crunchy Col on May 24, 2019 19:19:33 GMT
Both pretty good, both completely outside my usual tastes. I don't know what else to say.
B
is a little more interesting (but I think I'd get bored of it before A)
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Post by lokie on May 25, 2019 4:44:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2019 7:34:44 GMT
A wasn't bad at all and conveys its woozy bad drugs feel fairly effectively. But it's nothing Carl Cox wasn't doing much better 20 years ago.
B is the more adventurous and invigorating listen here. It's a pretty original hybrid of ambient sounds, light jazzy funk and Talking Heads style songwriting and it creates a very hypnotic world for me. Nice one.
B
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Post by alejandro on May 25, 2019 19:00:09 GMT
I quite like this match. There's a nice sparseness and understated groove to A that can be very catchy in an insidious way. B's a pretty nice slice of classic jazz-funk, it gets no points for innovation but it does the style very effictively. Some nice throwback Moog tones too.
Tough. B I guess, but kudos to both. Nice seeing more modern stuff around too.
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Post by Inspector Norse on May 26, 2019 18:20:41 GMT
A is very lacklustre and I'm not sure what the picker hears in it. If you want the minimal funky groove there are far better things, if you want slick synth-pop there are far better things, and if you want a combination of the two there are far better things. This is just dull, derivative and unimaginative.
And B is by a band called Mildlife. For people who think "Coldplay" sounds a bit too edgy. Nice moog sound. This sounds like something G might come up with if you sat him down with some music production software and gave him fifteen minutes to try and write an Air song. Pleasant, breezy and totally forgettable.
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Post by fange on May 27, 2019 5:55:01 GMT
I like A's feel and minimal style, an enjoyable groove. i just wish it did more with its 5 minutes. B is longer but still feels like it does more with its time; the minimalist jazz-styles guitar solo, the Dexter Wansel/mid-70s space jazz-funk keyboards, they just seem to make more for me to hang on to. Good new funky music from Melbourne.
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Post by osgood on May 27, 2019 13:58:07 GMT
I don't see the need for things like A to even exist. There's some people out there who like it, apparently. Whatever. B is nice and even pleasant, I can have it as background music while paying attention from time to time. Not that I have any intention to play it again, mind.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2019 20:20:52 GMT
Easily B.
I like the bassline in A, but seems kinda lightweight. Which isn't bad, but it fails next to B.
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Post by DarknessFish on May 28, 2019 20:22:38 GMT
Sink Ya Teeth's debut album was one of the highlights of last year for me. Sure, it has a bit of a retro throwback to the likes of ESG, but it's got that minimal swagger at its heart, that insistent bassline is a thing of wonder. Of course, I knew this wouldn't win hearts and minds, I tried drumming up support for it on BCB at the time, and it didn't find much favour. Still, I think it's a lovely moody pop record, and you lot should have a long hard word with yourselves. No idea what Carl Cox has to do with anything here - any chance you can point me at what you're on about, G, I might like it.
And talking of modern throwbacks, this is a throwback to the kind of thing I really don't like. The synth tones are horrible, and those repeated ascending things are really lazy Tangerine Dreams at their worst things. I guess the drums have a bit of disco sharpness about them, but everything else here is fucking horrid.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2019 20:44:55 GMT
I was thinking of that minimal progressive techno sound. It sounds like a lot of things from the 90s.
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Post by DarknessFish on May 28, 2019 20:52:49 GMT
I was thinking of that minimal progressive techno sound. It sounds like a lot of things from the 90s. I don't get much of a techno thing from it, despite the space. It's definitely got its roots more towards the mutant disco typa thing, I'd have said. Anyway, Gash, in one of his rare lucid moments compared it unfavourably to the New York Pony Club, and he has a point, despite this being rubbish... www.youtube.com/watch?v=g05AE0S4fMs |
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