The Quiet Man in the Corner

CanwllCorfe · 12-03-2010, 03:56 PM

For the longest time my love for Electronic music could not include Techno. I don't know what it is, but I have the feeling that it lacks something. I felt it didn't have a lot of energy, emotion, or melody. It definitely had drive, LOTS of drive. Well finally I've broken into it. Slowly, but surely. I started with a huge name, Len Faki, and someone I found on accident, Asagaoaudio. Asagaoaudio is definitely on the harder side of things, while Len Faki is a sort of commercial DJ; a lil' bit of both worlds!

I like them for quite opposite reasons. Blunt Weapon is a harsh gritty tune with the sort of filth that I look for in Electro and Tech House, and the darkness I look for in Hardstyle. The other track sounds like it would be played at a sold out stadium. That pounding bassline and the simple melodies would make a crowd go insane.

On another note, I've been on the search for deep Electronic songs with the sort of feeling I get from Progressive House. It's hard to explain what exactly, except maybe a sort of city at sunset right down the street from a beach. It started with 3 tracks from Tiesto's In Search for Sunrise 7: Asia.

They're not the sort of Mango, Proff, Shingo Nakamura, and Dinka tracks I'm used to. I've unfortunately only really come up with two

If anyone could give me suggestions on stuff that's similar, I'd be grateful! On another note, I've been getting into Screamo and Post Hardcore lately. I got I Would Set Myself on Fire For You's Believes in Patterns, The Saddest Landscape's You Will Not Survive, and the album with the really long title. Something like marching boots to war.. and I suffocate because they're tied too tightly for **** sake? I don't know.

CanwllCorfe · 12-07-2010, 01:50 AM

For anyone wishing to know what my avatar is..

It's a still from Begotten. It depicts God as a crazy person disemboweling himself. I gave him a Santa hat. It's Christmas God! Where's your Christmas spirit?

EDIT: I'll add this just to make a worthwhile entry. A lot of people ask me why my scrobble count is so low. Well, for awhile I didn't use it. Also, if you look below in my signature, I don't listen to music very often. I'll usually only listen to music in the car or in college. If I'm outside or at a store, I like to listen to the ambient sounds. Especially at parks and beaches and things like that. At home, I will listen to my new music before putting it onto my iPhone for later playingtimefun. I wonder if anyone else on here is like that.. I doubt it. I don't know. I remember playing Tony Hawk when I was younger, and I would pick "ambient noise" or "ambient sounds" over the music. This may be that because I'm an HSP, and respond quite dramatically to music, I save it for certain times. I think if I constantly listened to music, I'd be mentally exhausted.

CanwllCorfe · 12-20-2010, 08:19 PM

Decided I'll do something a lil' bit different this time around for my jernal. I get all kinds of new stuff everyday, and 9 1/2 times out of 9, I don't know really where to start. "Do I do a Native American album.. or a biography on a Hard Electro artist.." I blame the ADD. It's why I never get anything done, and why I have a beard even though I don't want to. So this time around I'll just give a bit of everything I've gotten myself into recently.

In the land of Electronic Music:

Out of any kind, I'm always getting new Electronic stuff. Albums aren't as common on the club oriented Electronica side of the fence, so singles come out from all sorts of artists on a day to day basis. Lately, I've been really keeping my finger on the pulse of Dutch House. It's a newfound genre that was created by DJ Chuckie, who sought to combine the music he heard growing up with House. What you get is sort of a tribal hip-hop amalgamation with TONS of energy. Look at this damn crowd (especially after the break):

I think part of its success is the classic track in itself, Satisfaction, which is easily one of the biggest club tracks of all time. Then it's refurbished by Afrojack and given new life right at the peak of this Dirty Dutch House craze. It's one hell of a tune. My only gripe is that quite a bit of it has melodies that are what I like to call "squeaky clean". They tend to have 0 depth, which can get old.

But sometimes it just works. Here's 2 more craziness tracks for your troubles

In the land of DSBM:

Well, it's Winter. I think I just have an urge to listen to hopelessly sad music in the Winter. It just works. Short days, coldness, snow, debt, etc. I hadn't checked back for any in a while, because I just wasn't in the mood for it. Then I heard one song, and got thrown back into the search for more. As with any other kind of music, I try and find stuff that epitomizes what I love about the genre. In this case, the saddest and darkest stuff I can find. In my last search I came up with Araxas and Hordah Blaästhiir.

Araxas is sort of taking the classic DSBM sound, and putting a bit of an "epic" spin on it; how perfect!

Hordah Blaästhiir lends a pretty big dose of Ambient to all 3 of the songs in his discography. I do look forward to his future material. This track is almost purely ambient with those lovely shrieked vocals. Unfortunately, my favorite track of his is not on YouTube. It's all drums, piano, what sounds like horns (but could be synth), and the same style of vocals in the track below. The horns sound like they would be from a dirge or something similar, which is to be expected of this genre. Without guitar or bass, it sounds more spacial and empty than the more conventional tracks; DSBM just got that much more depressing. This song on the other hand, is much more dark than sad.

Yup. Good ol' DSBM. The vocals I think are what really weird people out. Sure, it's dark and sad and whatnot, but it really sounds as if the singer is expressing agony and pain. It becomes a situation where it's not about the words anymore, as much as just another sound. I think my favorite way to describe them is what my befuddled friend Heather said after I showed her some, "it sounds like he's getting murdered in a dungeon.. can you turn that off?" Well I can't say I expected much more out of someone who's infatuated with Epic Metal, classic rock, pop music, and soundtracks. Or anyone for that matter. To me, DSBM is a genre that I believe will always go untainted by the commercial side of music. "Suicide. Yeah suicide is hard to sell" If someone dedicates their time to creating music dedicated to sadness and negativity in general, I think they know they won't ever end up being on the cover of a big magazine, or sell millions of records. That's the sort of beauty in it. It's music not created by a pop artist, it's almost the complete opposite.

Tune in later this week kids! I'll have some stuff more on the conventional side of things.

RVCA · 12-21-2010, 02:55 AM

I'm gonna go through this entire journal and pick up recs one of these days

CanwllCorfe · 12-21-2010, 10:50 AM

You need to. If you can't find anything, let me know.

CanwllCorfe · 01-03-2011, 03:29 PM

Epiphany in the land of Native Americans:

For the longest time I'd wondered how someone like Robbie Robertson, would out of nowhere come up with a song like:

And if your curious, the lyrics:
Wani wachiyelo ate omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live)
Wani wachiyelo ate omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live)
Wani wachiyelo ate omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live)

Atay nimichikun (Father you have done this)
Oshiya chichiyelo (Humbly have pity on me)

Wani wachiyelo atay omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live)
Wani wachiyelo atay omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live)
Wani wachiyelo atay (Father I want to live)

I still remember hearing it for the first time. Me and my sister were watching a movie called The Doe Boy, which we both ended up enjoying. It had ended, and I was getting ready to turn it until I heard this come on. I just stood there wide-eyed with goosebumps all over, not really knowing what to do. I immediately sat down intently, and watched the credits roll by until I found the name of the song. "Hm.. Robbie Robertson. Guess I need to look him up." Well when I was greeted with the fact that his music was almost pure rock, I was, needless to say, disappointed. It wasn't up until a couple weeks ago until I heard it on an old CD I made a couple years back.

Now with the advent of a computer that isn't hopelessly slow, I could do some much needed research. First stop: Wikipedia. Within a minute I had finally found an answer! As it turns out, it was written by the duo Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike. After lots and lots of YouTubing, I was happy to find that they actually have an immense amount of material, all of which is unbelievably beautiful. Definitely recommended.

CanwllCorfe · 01-29-2011, 12:02 AM

Woo hoo!

It's Latin week! It's kind of a funny coincidence, because in the last month or so I've been able to really learn a lot about my friend Johnny's Colombian culture. I got to try arepa (which was unbelievable), manjar blanco (his mom ended up buying me a mini container of it), and buñuelos. Who knew Kunkletown had culture. But I digress. He actually was one of the first people got interested in Electronic music. The majority of people I showed it to thought of it as a novelty; music you play at rave party dance shows. You know, houseravedancetrancetechno can't be beat in those kind of venues.

For awhile, we didn't see eye to eye. I enjoyed the more Epic and uplifting style of Trance, while he was more interested in the Tech side of things. Eventually we sort of grew out of it, and pretty much began to listen to damn near everything. I knew he still loved Spanish music, as he grew up with it and it's part of his heritage. That's why I was excited to find out about Latin house; club oriented house music with heavy handed doses of Spanish flair. It's almost perfect. When I hear their music, I almost always imagine a huge group of dancing people just going crazy. This is not too far off of what happens with House. It's an amalgamate of 2 genres that are each, in their own right, geared towards dancing. Put them together and you get one hell of an infectious combo.

djchameleon · 01-30-2011, 11:55 AM

how did I not know about Latin House? I enjoyed those songs thoroughly.

CanwllCorfe · 02-03-2011, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djchameleon

how did I not know about Latin House? I enjoyed those songs thoroughly.

Man you were missing out! I'm glad you liked em. At one point it was HUGE (back in 06-08), but now it seems Electro is the mainstream genre of choice. Along with Dubstep. Dubstep seemed to have gone from being pretty big, to HUGE.

djchameleon · 02-04-2011, 05:09 AM

yeah Dubstep blew up in a big way. I'm glad it has though, I love me some dubstep. I don't comment much in your journal but when I want to hear something new that I haven't before I come and read your latest posts and listen to what you have posted

12-03-2010, 03:56 PM	#71 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	For the longest time my love for Electronic music could not include Techno. I don't know what it is, but I have the feeling that it lacks something. I felt it didn't have a lot of energy, emotion, or melody. It definitely had drive, LOTS of drive. Well finally I've broken into it. Slowly, but surely. I started with a huge name, Len Faki, and someone I found on accident, Asagaoaudio. Asagaoaudio is definitely on the harder side of things, while Len Faki is a sort of commercial DJ; a lil' bit of both worlds! I like them for quite opposite reasons. Blunt Weapon is a harsh gritty tune with the sort of filth that I look for in Electro and Tech House, and the darkness I look for in Hardstyle. The other track sounds like it would be played at a sold out stadium. That pounding bassline and the simple melodies would make a crowd go insane. On another note, I've been on the search for deep Electronic songs with the sort of feeling I get from Progressive House. It's hard to explain what exactly, except maybe a sort of city at sunset right down the street from a beach. It started with 3 tracks from Tiesto's In Search for Sunrise 7: Asia. They're not the sort of Mango, Proff, Shingo Nakamura, and Dinka tracks I'm used to. I've unfortunately only really come up with two If anyone could give me suggestions on stuff that's similar, I'd be grateful! On another note, I've been getting into Screamo and Post Hardcore lately. I got I Would Set Myself on Fire For You's Believes in Patterns, The Saddest Landscape's You Will Not Survive, and the album with the really long title. Something like marching boots to war.. and I suffocate because they're tied too tightly for **** sake? I don't know. __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.

12-07-2010, 01:50 AM	#72 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	For anyone wishing to know what my avatar is.. It's a still from Begotten. It depicts God as a crazy person disemboweling himself. I gave him a Santa hat. It's Christmas God! Where's your Christmas spirit? EDIT: I'll add this just to make a worthwhile entry. A lot of people ask me why my scrobble count is so low. Well, for awhile I didn't use it. Also, if you look below in my signature, I don't listen to music very often. I'll usually only listen to music in the car or in college. If I'm outside or at a store, I like to listen to the ambient sounds. Especially at parks and beaches and things like that. At home, I will listen to my new music before putting it onto my iPhone for later playingtimefun. I wonder if anyone else on here is like that.. I doubt it. I don't know. I remember playing Tony Hawk when I was younger, and I would pick "ambient noise" or "ambient sounds" over the music. This may be that because I'm an HSP, and respond quite dramatically to music, I save it for certain times. I think if I constantly listened to music, I'd be mentally exhausted. __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind. Last edited by CanwllCorfe; 12-07-2010 at 08:44 PM.

12-20-2010, 08:19 PM	#73 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	Decided I'll do something a lil' bit different this time around for my jernal. I get all kinds of new stuff everyday, and 9 1/2 times out of 9, I don't know really where to start. "Do I do a Native American album.. or a biography on a Hard Electro artist.." I blame the ADD. It's why I never get anything done, and why I have a beard even though I don't want to. So this time around I'll just give a bit of everything I've gotten myself into recently. In the land of Electronic Music: Out of any kind, I'm always getting new Electronic stuff. Albums aren't as common on the club oriented Electronica side of the fence, so singles come out from all sorts of artists on a day to day basis. Lately, I've been really keeping my finger on the pulse of Dutch House. It's a newfound genre that was created by DJ Chuckie, who sought to combine the music he heard growing up with House. What you get is sort of a tribal hip-hop amalgamation with TONS of energy. Look at this damn crowd (especially after the break): I think part of its success is the classic track in itself, Satisfaction, which is easily one of the biggest club tracks of all time. Then it's refurbished by Afrojack and given new life right at the peak of this Dirty Dutch House craze. It's one hell of a tune. My only gripe is that quite a bit of it has melodies that are what I like to call "squeaky clean". They tend to have 0 depth, which can get old. But sometimes it just works. Here's 2 more craziness tracks for your troubles In the land of DSBM: Well, it's Winter. I think I just have an urge to listen to hopelessly sad music in the Winter. It just works. Short days, coldness, snow, debt, etc. I hadn't checked back for any in a while, because I just wasn't in the mood for it. Then I heard one song, and got thrown back into the search for more. As with any other kind of music, I try and find stuff that epitomizes what I love about the genre. In this case, the saddest and darkest stuff I can find. In my last search I came up with Araxas and Hordah Blaästhiir. Araxas is sort of taking the classic DSBM sound, and putting a bit of an "epic" spin on it; how perfect! Hordah Blaästhiir lends a pretty big dose of Ambient to all 3 of the songs in his discography. I do look forward to his future material. This track is almost purely ambient with those lovely shrieked vocals. Unfortunately, my favorite track of his is not on YouTube. It's all drums, piano, what sounds like horns (but could be synth), and the same style of vocals in the track below. The horns sound like they would be from a dirge or something similar, which is to be expected of this genre. Without guitar or bass, it sounds more spacial and empty than the more conventional tracks; DSBM just got that much more depressing. This song on the other hand, is much more dark than sad. Yup. Good ol' DSBM. The vocals I think are what really weird people out. Sure, it's dark and sad and whatnot, but it really sounds as if the singer is expressing agony and pain. It becomes a situation where it's not about the words anymore, as much as just another sound. I think my favorite way to describe them is what my befuddled friend Heather said after I showed her some, "it sounds like he's getting murdered in a dungeon.. can you turn that off?" Well I can't say I expected much more out of someone who's infatuated with Epic Metal, classic rock, pop music, and soundtracks. Or anyone for that matter. To me, DSBM is a genre that I believe will always go untainted by the commercial side of music. "Suicide. Yeah suicide is hard to sell" If someone dedicates their time to creating music dedicated to sadness and negativity in general, I think they know they won't ever end up being on the cover of a big magazine, or sell millions of records. That's the sort of beauty in it. It's music not created by a pop artist, it's almost the complete opposite. Tune in later this week kids! I'll have some stuff more on the conventional side of things. __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind. Last edited by CanwllCorfe; 12-25-2010 at 12:53 PM.

12-21-2010, 10:50 AM	#75 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	You need to. If you can't find anything, let me know. __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.

01-03-2011, 03:29 PM	#76 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	Epiphany in the land of Native Americans: For the longest time I'd wondered how someone like Robbie Robertson, would out of nowhere come up with a song like: And if your curious, the lyrics: Wani wachiyelo ate omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live) Wani wachiyelo ate omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live) Wani wachiyelo ate omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live) Atay nimichikun (Father you have done this) Oshiya chichiyelo (Humbly have pity on me) Wani wachiyelo atay omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live) Wani wachiyelo atay omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live) Wani wachiyelo atay (Father I want to live) I still remember hearing it for the first time. Me and my sister were watching a movie called The Doe Boy, which we both ended up enjoying. It had ended, and I was getting ready to turn it until I heard this come on. I just stood there wide-eyed with goosebumps all over, not really knowing what to do. I immediately sat down intently, and watched the credits roll by until I found the name of the song. "Hm.. Robbie Robertson. Guess I need to look him up." Well when I was greeted with the fact that his music was almost pure rock, I was, needless to say, disappointed. It wasn't up until a couple weeks ago until I heard it on an old CD I made a couple years back. Now with the advent of a computer that isn't hopelessly slow, I could do some much needed research. First stop: Wikipedia. Within a minute I had finally found an answer! As it turns out, it was written by the duo Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike. After lots and lots of YouTubing, I was happy to find that they actually have an immense amount of material, all of which is unbelievably beautiful. Definitely recommended. __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind. Last edited by CanwllCorfe; 01-03-2011 at 03:39 PM.

12-21-2010, 02:55 AM	#74 (permalink)
RVCA （￣ー￣） Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,270	I'm gonna go through this entire journal and pick up recs one of these days

01-29-2011, 12:02 AM	#77 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	Woo hoo! It's Latin week! It's kind of a funny coincidence, because in the last month or so I've been able to really learn a lot about my friend Johnny's Colombian culture. I got to try arepa (which was unbelievable), manjar blanco (his mom ended up buying me a mini container of it), and buñuelos. Who knew Kunkletown had culture. But I digress. He actually was one of the first people got interested in Electronic music. The majority of people I showed it to thought of it as a novelty; music you play at rave party dance shows. You know, houseravedancetrancetechno can't be beat in those kind of venues. For awhile, we didn't see eye to eye. I enjoyed the more Epic and uplifting style of Trance, while he was more interested in the Tech side of things. Eventually we sort of grew out of it, and pretty much began to listen to damn near everything. I knew he still loved Spanish music, as he grew up with it and it's part of his heritage. That's why I was excited to find out about Latin house; club oriented house music with heavy handed doses of Spanish flair. It's almost perfect. When I hear their music, I almost always imagine a huge group of dancing people just going crazy. This is not too far off of what happens with House. It's an amalgamate of 2 genres that are each, in their own right, geared towards dancing. Put them together and you get one hell of an infectious combo. __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.