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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Don't forget to post that **** along with a ridiculously long form post about it in your journal. I wanna hear this. And what do you know about Boris, Sleep, and Sunn O))) anyway?
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Will do. He's got an album coming out shortly, so I'll probably attempt a feature on that as well.
Etna from 2006 was my introduction to the scene.
Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version was more my style, as well as the blues-based drone of Top Dollar's work with Endless Boogie from NYC. A DJ passed away a few years ago in NY and I was invited to pick through her bins to help raise a few bucks for her fam. In the crates I found Endless Boogie Vol 1 and Vol 2 - ridiculously rare early vinyl-only issues from the band, and I was instantly hooked by Vol 1 (Black) Side A Track 1: "Stanton Karma." (Sorry - too rare for YT). But track that sh*t down because it is infectious.
Anyway by 2006 I had been dabbling in the darkjazz/doomjazz branch of drone and really digging the sparse sonic soundscapes of these jazzy dirges. That's when Boris surfaced on my radar. I mean, you really coudn't get away from Boris + Sunn O))) in 2006 if you had any sort of a pulse. My gutterpunk buddy was massively into them and bought their full catalog on wax.
Sleep just naturally surfaces when you're in the doom/sludge circles, and everyone calls
Dopesmoker the pinacle of its genre. And sure, Boris was topping the charts in 2003 with
Boris at Last -Feedbacker- but those who dug a little deeper were all about
Dopesmoker, enough to chart in the top 25 by year's end.
Of course, my knowledge is merely superficial - I've listened to very little stoner/sludge/doom stuff, but I definitely dig what it's doing. I just tend to hang out in neighboring drone scenes, with albums like The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation's
Succubus and
Anthropomorphic and the trilogy of LPs they released under the alternate (more ambient) moniker, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble.