Burial's beats

Burial wrote:If your well into tunes, your life starts to weave around them. I’d rather hear a tune about real life, about the UK, than some US hiphop. 'I’m in the club with your girl' type thing. I love r&b tunes and vocals but I like hearing things that are true to the UK, like drum&bass and dubstep, Once you've heard that underground music in your life, other stuff just sounds like a **** advert, imported.

scoobylol wrote:Oh don't forget he did those tunes with Four Tet which are great too... Moth / Wolf Club.

Moth is a real masterpiece...
Good morning all - today I woke up with the Unite

I'd never heard Moth before... It ticks every box for me.

The guy is incredible.

The Untrue album is the pinnacle of any Dubstep release i've ever heard. And as for how he makes this amazing music... Well, thats just ridiculous, how on earth he uses Soundforge to make this stuff is beyond me.

Here in the UK, he is HUGELY respected, maybe not commercially, but those who know their music know about Burial.

thanks for the interview link - I like this bit:

burial wrote:I like tunes that just dive straight in, there’s a jump off and once you’re in it, the awareness that you’re two minutes into a tune, or four minutes into a tune is gone.

you guys make me wanna listen again to his records i copped years ago!
i like the first album more than "Untrue" cause it has a darker feeling IMO
and the ghost hardware 12"...
the Wire interview is inspiring
thanks again

I have his untrue album at home but tbh im not that blown away by him as most of you here, he is an ok producer nothing really special imho. Just another guy making ambient like music.

I voted I know him but I dont like him

64hz wrote:I have his untrue album at home but tbh im not that blown away by him as most of you here, he is an ok producer nothing really special imho. Just another guy making ambient like music.

I voted I know him but I dont like him

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That sounds like noise to me, i dunno if that qualifies as music.

i love his work but i'm mostly fascinated by his ability to capture a moment, a place, to transplant an idea or ambiance of a scene into a song .. his music sounds like it's bouncing off sparse concrete structures in the dead of night.

and he does indeed do everything in soundforge by cutting and pasting sounds, or so i've heard. no sequencer.

64hz wrote:I have his untrue album at home but tbh im not that blown away by him as most of you here, he is an ok producer nothing really special imho. Just another guy making ambient like music.

I voted I know him but I dont like him

Wow.

I will buy all his released tracks on the vinyl once I have a turntable...

Tracks wrote:That sounds like noise to me, i dunno if that qualifies as music.

the border between music and noise is fastly disappearing...
http://machinemusic.org/2010/01/12/nois ... l-hegarty/

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_%28music%29

"In defining noise music and its value, Paul Hegarty (2007) cites the work of noted cultural critics Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille and Theodor Adorno and through their work traces the history of "noise". He defines noise at different times as "intrusive, unwanted," "lacking skill, not being appropriate" and "a threatening emptiness". He traces these trends starting with 18th century concert hall music. Hegarty contends that it is John Cage's composition 4'33", in which an audience sits through four and a half minutes of "silence" (Cage 1973), that represents the beginning of noise music proper. For Hegarty, "noise music", as with 4'33", is that music made up of incidental sounds that represent perfectly the tension between "desirable" sound (properly played musical notes) and undesirable "noise" that make up all noise music from Erik Satie to NON to Glenn Branca."


peace

maara wrote:I will buy all his released tracks on the vinyl once I have a turntable...

don't know if all his releases are still availables
hurry up, i don't think there's a lot of copies pressed... but maybe i'm wrong
i've got his records when they came out

^^^ Thx, I did some sound art theory essays at uni, and reading about John Cage nearly destroyed my passion for life itself haha. Check out a book called Noise, Water, Meat by Douglas Kahn if that stuff is of interest.

LOL @ referring to Burial as noise though. Particularly without considering the nature of his work.