Correct!

Alright some guesses...

LoathsomePete - White Noise Carousel
Anteater - Rain at Ohm
Remedy - Ayreon
music_phantom13 - Nujabes

As Tore requested, an explanation. The Caretaker track (well that entire album) was actually based on The Shining. Although it didn't really fit the 'normal' idea of cyberpunk, the song for me sounds like something a protagonist (Deckard f.e.) would attempt to listen to and appreciate, only for a wall of mechanisation to impede him. The humanity of the track has been stripped down to create something that attempts to pass itself as human, but is nothing such.

^Zarko, that was a cool idea behind it :)

Sorry!

MIGHT just be me, but I think the themed compilations are more popular than the normal ones :p:

I'm guessing it will depend a bit on the theme. But yeah, personally I think it's more satisfying to be creative within some kind of framework - like you have to find something to fit an idea like cyberpunk rather than just whatever. I also think it builds a little more expectation for the comp (which is good) and I'm generally more curious to hear the other contributions when I know they went through the same creative challenge as me. :)

Hopefully the next theme will be as popular as this one!

Considering a few peeps, me included, weren't all too sussed on the cyberpunk theme i think people did a good job here overall. Kept the theme but wasn't enormously samey.

Explanation for my choice (Suicide): I was in the Blade Runner train of thought and looked for something that reflected that, i think the song suits walking down the dark grimy streets in the film. That and a band from the punk movement using synth is a logical choice :)

Personally I hadn't even considered instrumental songs. I had never really thought of the cyberpunk theme in music I listen to but I think far more of my music would have fit than I originally thought. As a result I went for something that was too obviously "me". I was looking for lyrical content that fit the theme, but after listening to the comp I see that bleak instrumentals worked just as well. I also realized, trying to listen to it as an outsider, that my song is not likely to make anyone a Skinny Puppy fan. :laughing: It's not the most approachable of their songs (not that that was the goal) and I should have gone with one of the others I considered.

Well, for anyone that's not aware, I picked that Billy Idol track because it's from his album Cyberpunk, which is a sort of concept album about this kind of thing, and the song itself is named after a book by William Gibson that was one of the first really big cyberpunk novels. Plus I really like the song. The album was a huge flop in its day and pretty much killed Billy Idol's career, but I actually think it's very good and extremely underrated.

I chose the first thing I thought of basically. The track isn't especially brilliant (Fear Factory) but I like the tempo and it reminds me of a chase down a back street and action per se regarding a subject such as this and of course if you have no idea what cyberdyne is then shame on you!

I loved the Ayreon track and have the Ambeon album Fate Of A Dreamer which is a side project of the band, however I personally didn't think it tied in to well with the overall theme.

I chose my track, which I am just going to admit was iaminthedirectory by White Noise Carousel, because it was pretty much the first thing to come to my mind (after Deltron). First of all, the song is pretty much a dark, dismal, hopeless collection of glitchy sounds that already makes me feel like I am in a cyberpunkish society. The whole album has a very similar lyrical style, basically someone reading off an unbelievably depressing, dark poem. I chose this song in particular because I felt it displayed an interesting take on cyberpunk, where instead of describing a dark, bleak futuristic society controlled by technology he described our current society as just that, narrating as some weird creature. By the way, sorry it was over 8 minutes long :(

Well seeing as how the guessing has pretty much stopped I'll come forward and say that I was the one to submit "The Dream Sequencer" by Ayreon. I've read a few comments saying that it didn't have much to do with the theme, but I chose this song specifically because I knew that the mix was going to be predominantly electronic industrial music (which it was). I forget to ask Tore to put the song as the opening (it really does give off a sci-fi feeling) but it seems he read my mind and did it anyways. Perhaps not as true to the theme as the other songs, it does create some variety and help sets the mood for the rest of the songs.

I chose Panasonic Youth, because I thought that it musically, lyrically, and titally (if that's even a word) fitted the theme. It's also one of my favorite Dillinger Escape Plan songs.

I've tried to organize the lyrics the best I could.

I'm coming forward also; I'm the one who submitted 'World's End Rhapsody' by Nujabes. I chose it because it seemed to be the sort of thing that would be playing in some twisted future nightclub, or perhaps the kind of track you'd hear sizzling out of the speakers of Death Cube K on some smoke-tinged night. A distant beat, slightly retro yet not...it fit the compilation like a glove. :)

I really think that the themes (ahem my idea from way back ;) are a better form of compilation as much more thought has to go into them instead of just random tracks.

I agree actually. Maybe we should just scrap the whole general MB Comp. thing and orient the monthly comps along specific themes instead?

I third this. I love themed comps so much more.

Only one track left undisclosed so that means it must be Remedy who submitted Rain at Ohm. Like I said earlier in the thread, amazing track! Probably my personal favorite on this mix.

I went ahead and updated the OP with the songs next to everybody's names. :)

The Locust - Aotkpta

I chose my song because I felt the first half of the song represented the high-speed, advanced, futuristic life-style full of lights and traffic. The second half represented the crime and corruption. The line "we'll bury this city in trash" worked well to describe a scummy, polluted cyber-punk city.

I agree the themed comps are nice and a bit more interesting, but I also like the general comps. I just think the guessing is a little...pointless in a way. I'd much rather just enjoy the comp and get conversations going about everyone's opinions on the songs, rather than everything keeping quiet so they don't reveal what they submitted. I honestly think that's why those threads don't get many replies. It can be tricky commenting on the rest of the comp without revealing your submission.

Thanks! I chose it because of the atmosphere and also because I loved reading 1984, which definitely had some influence on the whole idea of a digital post-apocalyptic world. The first thing that came to mind was to submit a Deltron track, but I thought someone else would probably do it.

I will definetly check it out

What is October's theme and is it replacing the general monthly comp?

Been on vacation the last week, so I haven\t been around to reply :)

I thought I'd keep October's theme a secret for another week, but suffice to say it will be the opposite of cyberpunk. That should give you a rough idea of what to expect. :p:

I believe PMO is doing the regular comps and I quite like them as a way to just get stuff I like out there (I've often submitted tracks from albums I've reviewed). We haven't really talked about whether or not one should replace the other. I just thought themed comps were exciting and thought to revive the bi-monthlys.

I think i like themed comps more than normal comps so i wouldn't mind them being replaced, if there's a lot of support for it to happen then why not?

this is fucking cool, despite the conflicting ideas of cyberpunk already mentioned (locust, dillinger.. caretaker?!)
cheers m'dears!

Just out of curiosity, what did you find inappropriate about the track I chose (The Locust)? About 75% of why I chose it was the feel of the music and the other 15% for lyrical content.

^ I thought it fit mood-wise. I didn't pay attention to the lyrics.

i said that before i'd heard it, listening to it now and it definitely fits 'the bill'. don't ask me to write out 'the bill' though... it's an aesthetic rather than a genre, no doubt this has been said a thousand times already. it's a very good compilation

also can i just say TETSUO!!, because i love that film
and on the japanese cyberpunk ting:

Yeah, I was wondering this about Dillinger.

It's been a week so what's the theme? i have to get a track for the monthly comp up and would rather get both up in quick succession :)

Alright!

This month's theme will be european middle age history or - in one word - medieval! Deadline for submissions will be the 15th.

The proper announcement is here - http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...-medieval.html

:)

Medieval is quite specific. Can we delve back farther regarding themes?

Do you mean further back in time? The rough idea that it's from 5th century BC to the 16th gives a thousand years span in many different cultures. Would you like to submit something outside of that framework?

Medieval is usually from the 10th century onwards with the previous 500 years classed as the 'Dark Ages' here but I was pertaining musically moreso. is the comp more lyrical?

I think how it relates to the theme is entirely up to you and with me it's fine if you use the ~500-1500 timespan. :)

i've had a chance to really listen to this now and i love it, your submissions tore were especially good - Juno Reactor is like the soundtrack to a clubbing scene in a 90's dystopian sci-fi, that's what it's all about! And Skinny Puppy are today's 'better than the Beatles' band. Also i didn't know Fear Factory dabbled in techno?
There has to be a sequel to this compilation one of these days