Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Chaos, madness, broken bones
To continue the series of me sharing music that is rocking my world I present you my favourite breakcore artist: Venetian Snares.I have a special relationship with Venetian Snares. Sometimes I desperately need to pump my head with some of his sounds. Sometimes I feel that this music is the work of a genius. On the other hand sometimes I feel that he is extremely boring with his "I just don't give a fuck attitude", and sometimes I feel that his tracks are kind of redundant. Right now I'm feeling excitement about his tracks again. Don't know why. I still can not recognise the pattern...
Anyway. I was browsing the CDs in my car and so I rediscovered his album from 2005 "Rossz Csillag Allat Született". The title seems to be Hungarian and I have absolutely no idea what it means. But this album is just breathtakingly intense. You definitely need to have strong nerves to listen to it entirely. It's a feast of weird time signatures, broken amen breaks, heartbreaking and melting strings, orchestral samples, distorted bass sounds, piercing synths.
The track "Kétpólusú Keresztes Hadjárat" for example starts with a violin that makes you feel like the loneliest person on earth. It is accompanied with really random sounding orchestral samples. The violin seems to be alone in a world that it doesn't understand. But it seems to enjoy it's loneliness as well. It truly tears you apart. After some minutes of self indulgence there's the voice of a girl. In the background there are birds singing. She says:
I used to understand happy... I know that I used to be happy... I was really happy. I'm unhappy now and I can't remember what it's like to be happy I only remember.... I don't remember...And then it explodes in a gigantic outburst of chaos, madness, drums that sound like bones breaking and squealing synths that sound desperate and determined at the same time. Just when you think that this ride is over it starts again and again. For almost 9 minutes. But why am I talking about music?! Music should be listened to. Since this is the interwebs (they are visual remember?) here's an unofficial video of the song "Szamár Madár":
I remember being happy only in comparison... to not being happy which is what I am now.
posted by Yavor @ 9:18 AM
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Monday, June 04, 2007
Balkan Beat Box: Musicians without borders
It's not often that I hear music that blows me away lately. Everything seems to be done already. Nothing is new. Everything is boring. Candy, marketing, ring tones and plastic dolls… And then I turn on the Radio and hear a band. What is this? Is it Bulgarian? No. Klezmer? No. From Serbia? Morocco? Israel? Greece? Spain? Damn it's from all over! I have never heard something as cosmopolitan as that!It turned out to be a band called Balkan Beat Box. It's the future, the past, everything, now, here. It's music so beautiful that when you hear it you will not be the same again. OK enough of that. Have a listen for yourself and visit their website and their MySpace for more sounds. And here's a review from the Pittsburgh Tribune for more information.
Last saturday they played in Neuchatel. And I missed it. Damn...
Labels: sounds
posted by Yavor @ 1:38 PM
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
At the end of the day
In case you don't know: Amon Tobin is god. And I seem to have lost my copy of his latest work "The Foley Room". Yes this is a tragedy! I come home exhausted after a day of work and I need my fix! What is this?!So while I'm searching here is an unofficial video for the track "At the end of the day". And quite a cool one I must say:
Update: Got it back! Good times! :)
posted by Yavor @ 6:58 PM
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Friday, May 18, 2007
New Mash
My last mash was more than 2 years ago. I didn't think that I would ever do another but I just couldn't resist this one. I try not to waste my time with mash-ups when I make music. It's not often that I take my time for a track and if I do I prefer to work on something original and not on mashes.
I had another post on this subject already but why do I always feel the need to make music when I have more important things to do? This quicky just needed to come out.
Anyways exams are coming soon so expect a bunch of new tracks. :)
By the way: You can download the mp3 at my music site:
www.soundwasta.com
Labels: sounds
posted by Yavor @ 8:25 AM
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Saturday, May 05, 2007
Addiction
Learning something new about myself everyday - it's an addiction. Most recent learning: how do I deal with frustration?Our Career Days are having some "serious" setbacks. Booklets are late, work shops were cancelled because of low interest and other things like this. It felt frustrating. Frustrating because I felt like we are dissapointing our partners. Turned out that they are not disappointed at all...
So why was I frustrated? Apperantly it was a big deal just for me. I created my frustration because i thought something is true. It was not. My frustration was a product of me assuming things. I created it by myself. In this case I can "uncreate" it by putting things into perspective, stopping assuming and focusing again on the bigger picture. Easy as that.
Currently listening to Telefon Tel Aviv
Labels: answers?, random, sounds
posted by Yavor @ 6:14 PM
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