Re: Burial
 

Damn that presenter woman is annoying. Stop yapping already! How over the top can you be? Or is it some kind of act/joke?
This preview didn't do much for me though... kinda reminded me of FSOL but not as interesting. Sounds kinda like lots of random bits with lots of reverb on it.

Re: Burial
 

i am so not downloading that. last time it almost ruined the first album for me. and yeah, Mary Anne Hobbs needs to tone it down a little.

Re: Burial
 

so you listened to all the previews but won't listen to a 15min mix? not sure the kode 9 mix really gives away any secrets. it's 17 tracks in 15 mins. you don't hear much of anything. it sounds like burial. exactly what you'd expect.

Re: Burial
 

I actually quite like Burial, but it is all just samples + covering up the mismatches with crackles and reverb.

Any fool can do it. Even a middle aged white suburban bloke like me.

Here's the hottest new dubplate from East London's darkhypergrimedub massive Kremayshun to prove my point: http://www.lxnen.com/KremayshunOne.mp3

Took me about 2 hours, and there's probably far to much going on because I can't quite bring myself to make things as empty as Burial does, and I was relying only on cleared samples I already had on my harddrive rather than nicking anything gangsta stylee.

Coming next: Kremayshun remixes Underworld - Mmm Towerblock I love you :-)

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i shouldn't have listened to the samples either. but they're still just samples. a mix is a self-contained piece, and i'd rather it not substitute for the album in my mind.

LX_Nen: i don't care how simple Burial's methods are as long as he keeps bringing the vibe. you could say the same about any number of great hardcore tracks from the early 90s. there ought to be MORE mismatches in sample-based music IMO; all the music is sounding a bit too clean and precise these days.

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go on then LX. if it's that easy i'll expect you to be the media darling in a few weeks time.


make an album since it's so easy. get it played on Radio1. win album of the year awards from many diff. sources. if you do this with ease, i'll give you every single item i own, every penny to my name.

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I didn't say I could do it well, I just said I could do it :-)

Follow the link in my last post to hear the result. I'm too busy making my own proper album to do any big sideprojects right now, but then agan at 2 hours a track I might just give it a go...

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no. what you said was, 'any fool' can do it. which means Burial is not special and any fool, say, YOU, can do what he does easily. i've heard your song you posted. you got the crackle, the echo and the space, but there's no vibe. no feeling. nothing that makes me want to hear it again. nothing that evokes the same visions that the Burial album did.

it's easy to mimic a style, but the best music is the simplist music that transcends its form and takes on something unique and unexpected with the sum of its parts.

not a bad effort on your part but i still challenge you to produce 1 track that is as good as the worst Burial track without imitating Burial.

remember, before Burial, nothing sounded like his stuff. come up with something that is your own style and captures the imaginations of millions.

actually, go ahead and copy Burial. you may be able to reproduce his general sound, but you'll never approach the beauty of his work.

i'll wait here patiently.

Re: Burial
 

oh jesus BLD are we seriously pulling the "I DONT SEE YOU MAKING ALBUMS EVRYONE LOVES WHY DONT YOU CAN IT" routine

lol. next you'll tell me you're a Tool fan or something.

someone goes beyond the standard internet guidelines of just making a statement and gives a little demonstration to boot but none of it is valid until you say so. it's not even being *that* opinionated anymore you're just being an ass.

Re: Burial
 

I find this very interesting, Burial (and I'll repeat, I do like the album, and I'll be buying the new one) is in a field of 1. There's nobody else in the genre, so my question is: Is Burial good because he's has a unique style, or is he good despite having a unique style?

I started off idly doodling with samples I had lying around on my hard drive, to see if I could get the same sort of production. I realise that there's no actual 'track' in what I made, it's just an assembly of Burial-like noises. I'll have a go at putting a 'song' in there soon - but I've got a busy few days ahead seeing that Underthingy band for the next 3 nights.

Do you have any recomendations for the sort of album Burial is sampling his 'slinky beats' and vocals from? I'm not sure which genre I should be looking for my samples in...