The Quiet Man in the Corner

CanwllCorfe · 12-20-2010, 07:19 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.

12-20-2010, 07:19 PM	#11 (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 11:53 AM.