from freak fighter to lamp lighter

OccultHawk · 12-18-2020, 07:05 AM

Maja Ratkje CREPUSCULAR HOUR

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The work is composed for three choirs, three pairs of noise musicians and concert organ.

This aggressive performance music and sound expression is one in a long tradition of compositions that try to push the sonic boundaries of what can be done but a much smaller list of successful attempts at the same goal. Going anywhere new is worth the journey but going somewhere totally ****ing awesome for the first time is the experience that validates your exploration. If you’re such a listener, that wanders down dark tunnels hoping there’s something out in the cold abyss walk this way. You’ve found an worthy attraction on this long and often alienating and sad adventure. It’ll be waiting for you.

OccultHawk · 12-18-2020, 08:50 AM

For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) by Huerco S.

https://brianleeds.bandcamp.com/

Some of you know I’m big fan of ambient music as a genre and a record doesn’t have to be elite to borrow some of my time and even my love. Like most genres ambient music can tap on different emotions and moods. But unlike most, not all, but most genres, the crème de la crème is rooted in a pleasant ambiguity. I read this elsewhere but it can be as non-distracting as you like as well as engaging as you like. Honestly, it’s not easy to talk about ambiguity. Probably because it’s so ambiguous. But still in that cloud cover the best stuff is still music and hangs its hat on melodic hooks. They might be made out of sound helium but they’re in there. This is great music, differentially great, because at the core there’s clever sound progression, which is really another way of saying it’s melodic.

OccultHawk · 12-18-2020, 11:29 AM

HEXA - FACTORY PHOTOGRAPHS by HEXA (Lawrence English + Jamie Stewart)

https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com...ry-photographs

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HEXA is Lawrence English and Jamie Stewart. Factory Photographs is their soundtrack to David Lynch's evocative exploration of the passing of the industrial age.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-l...old-factories/

OccultHawk · 12-18-2020, 08:00 PM

Hollywood Medieval by Maxwell Sterling

https://memorynumber36.bandcamp.com/...ywood-medieval

I think a lot of MB folks would go in for this one if you gave it a listen. This received love from alternative press music critics. Hauntological slightly vapor LA infused ambient. It’s a smooth hip listen.

OccultHawk · 12-19-2020, 06:09 AM

Precious Systems by MJ Guider

https://mjguider.bandcamp.com/album/precious-systems

This debut that was met with some critical love but very little popular support was actually one of the best shoegaze records of 2016.

OccultHawk · 12-19-2020, 08:29 AM

Orphée by Jóhann Jóhannsson

I’ve mentioned before that the Deutsche Grammophon label carries tremendous weight with me and this unassailable record is fantastic example of why. It’s one of the best modern classical releases of the 21st century thus far. Icelander, Jóhannsson, borrows from great traditions but doesn’t bind himself restrictively to anything. This music is way beyond those 20th C parameters. This is the work of a composer striking out independently to appeal to our comfortable but wistful ways. There’s plenty to read about the inspiration and why the title and so on but to me this is the soundtrack of beautiful glacial waterfalls that only exist because it’s our time to die.

OccultHawk · 12-20-2020, 08:04 AM

Tristes Tropiques by Andrew Pekler

https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/al...stes-tropiques

Tristes Tropiques is an exotic beat centered fourth world recording by Soviet era Uzbekistan born recording artist Andrew Parker.

His family managed to successfully flee Soviet oppression and emigrated with political asylum to sunny California the land of Ronalds Reagan & McDonald’s

where he became intensely obsessed with Slayer. His frightened parents relocated the family again, this time to Germany

where he fell into the alternative rave/dance music seen that eventually matured into the experimental dance if you wanna record that brought us here. A sonically dense entertaining record that uses the beat to good effect.

OccultHawk · 12-20-2020, 05:04 PM

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History Lesson
Song by Nicolas Jaar
OVERVIEW
LYRICS
LISTEN
PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR
Lyrics
Darling
You're late
For your history lesson
Don't you worry, I'll give you my notes
Chapter one: We fucked up
Chapter two: We did it again, and again, and again, and again
Chapter three: We didn't say sorry
Chapter four: We didn't acknowledge
Chapter five: We lied
Chapter six: We're done
Oh.but.baby... Don't you decide it?

Sirens (Nicolas Jaar album)

2016

OccultHawk · 12-21-2020, 02:46 PM

Front Row Seat to Earth by Weyes Blood

Front Row Seat to Earth has attracted a lot of genre tags but one I haven’t seen is soft rock and really think that’s what this is. The kind of soft rock that can be rebranded as yacht rock. Let me be clear that means quality. The critics have high praise for this record and rightfully so. It’s not lost in a nostalgic bubble. It’s rightfully 2016. But it sits comfortably with the melodic sensibilities and gorgeous productions that made driving in the seventies with the radio on so delicious.

OccultHawk · 12-21-2020, 03:02 PM

AS by Amnesia Scanner

AS is a beat oriented electronic album that would probably clear the club but for good reasons. It’s not my genre expertise but I get there’s something uneasy and high quality going on here like the molly being a bit more than you bargained for and you can’t find your ride.

12-18-2020, 08:50 AM	#1242 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) by Huerco S. https://brianleeds.bandcamp.com/ Some of you know I’m big fan of ambient music as a genre and a record doesn’t have to be elite to borrow some of my time and even my love. Like most genres ambient music can tap on different emotions and moods. But unlike most, not all, but most genres, the crème de la crème is rooted in a pleasant ambiguity. I read this elsewhere but it can be as non-distracting as you like as well as engaging as you like. Honestly, it’s not easy to talk about ambiguity. Probably because it’s so ambiguous. But still in that cloud cover the best stuff is still music and hangs its hat on melodic hooks. They might be made out of sound helium but they’re in there. This is great music, differentially great, because at the core there’s clever sound progression, which is really another way of saying it’s melodic. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-18-2020, 08:00 PM	#1244 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Hollywood Medieval by Maxwell Sterling https://memorynumber36.bandcamp.com/...ywood-medieval I think a lot of MB folks would go in for this one if you gave it a listen. This received love from alternative press music critics. Hauntological slightly vapor LA infused ambient. It’s a smooth hip listen. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-19-2020, 06:09 AM	#1245 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Precious Systems by MJ Guider https://mjguider.bandcamp.com/album/precious-systems This debut that was met with some critical love but very little popular support was actually one of the best shoegaze records of 2016. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-19-2020, 08:29 AM	#1246 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Orphée by Jóhann Jóhannsson I’ve mentioned before that the Deutsche Grammophon label carries tremendous weight with me and this unassailable record is fantastic example of why. It’s one of the best modern classical releases of the 21st century thus far. Icelander, Jóhannsson, borrows from great traditions but doesn’t bind himself restrictively to anything. This music is way beyond those 20th C parameters. This is the work of a composer striking out independently to appeal to our comfortable but wistful ways. There’s plenty to read about the inspiration and why the title and so on but to me this is the soundtrack of beautiful glacial waterfalls that only exist because it’s our time to die. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-20-2020, 08:04 AM	#1247 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Tristes Tropiques by Andrew Pekler https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/al...stes-tropiques Tristes Tropiques is an exotic beat centered fourth world recording by Soviet era Uzbekistan born recording artist Andrew Parker. His family managed to successfully flee Soviet oppression and emigrated with political asylum to sunny California the land of Ronalds Reagan & McDonald’s where he became intensely obsessed with Slayer. His frightened parents relocated the family again, this time to Germany where he fell into the alternative rave/dance music seen that eventually matured into the experimental dance if you wanna record that brought us here. A sonically dense entertaining record that uses the beat to good effect. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-21-2020, 02:46 PM	#1249 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Front Row Seat to Earth by Weyes Blood Front Row Seat to Earth has attracted a lot of genre tags but one I haven’t seen is soft rock and really think that’s what this is. The kind of soft rock that can be rebranded as yacht rock. Let me be clear that means quality. The critics have high praise for this record and rightfully so. It’s not lost in a nostalgic bubble. It’s rightfully 2016. But it sits comfortably with the melodic sensibilities and gorgeous productions that made driving in the seventies with the radio on so delicious. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-21-2020, 03:02 PM	#1250 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	AS by Amnesia Scanner AS is a beat oriented electronic album that would probably clear the club but for good reasons. It’s not my genre expertise but I get there’s something uneasy and high quality going on here like the molly being a bit more than you bargained for and you can’t find your ride. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html