Burial
 

Melancholy for the post-rave generation

Thoughts?

http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.co...98266029581805
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/007666.html

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it's good. dark and urban. not only the cover reminds of a futuristic blade runner setting.

although the best tracks are the one that were already released on last years EP imo...

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the breezeblock mix by kode-9 is killer too!

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Just reading his interview is very inspiring. Loved the samples, now I'm trying to find a place to buy this domestically. I hate paying cross-atlantic shipping.
I have to have this though.

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http://barefiles.com/download2.php?f...0yMDA2Lm1wMw==

edit: You can get the ep here:

http://www.bleep.com/?bleep=HDB001

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the only reason i dont have this right now is because i am so mind-bogglingly poor. i barely eat.
come june it's def. going to be this.
plus herbert
plus other things i cant think of because i'm so HUNGRY GODDAMNIT

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*throws an apple and a nickel in dubmans direction*

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well - it looks like bleep.com will have the album in not too long

...although - it doesn't say if it won't be available for people in the US (which, at least for the Franz Ferdinand stuff on there seems to switch back and forth)

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Just got this - amazing.

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it'll sell out before that happens... got mine for a pretty penny a couple weeks ago (day after payday ;) )
it's fucking dark, so evocative, so visual.

i love it

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it gets better every time.

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I guess I just don't get it. Is it a grower album for you guys? The samples on bleep just sound kind of bland and boring to me.

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I was floored on first listen.

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yeh, same here

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Untrue November 5th

still loving 'Ghost Hardware' too

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Listening to this with proper bass helps a lot, definitely not something to listen on your iPod. With proper bass and volume it is abosorbing hypnotic darkness. If you still don't get it go ahead and smoke a joint and listen to it again. :p

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yeah i don't get it. and i don't smoke either. i'll give it a few more spins but so far it's really nothing more than fairly decent. do i have to be English or something?

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you most certainly do not have to be english

just give it time... it's a fantastic album - but I could see how some people might not dig it, with the absence of vocals, etc

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Yeah I had to give it quite some time before I liked it. Now I love it, although 1 or 2 songs on there are kinda annoying. I still think "Prayer" has a fucking amazing vibe.
And yes, you should smoke a j when listening to this album. In fact, you should start smoking j's and all the music you listen to will be massive!

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there's another highly anticipated dubstep release in november: Pinch's first album on his own label Tectonic, it's called "Underwater Dancehall". :)

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well about 90% of the music i own has no vocals, so i don't think its that. maybe its just that there's not a lot of variation going on there, or maybe i just don't like it.

I've got no issue w/ weed, it's just that i like to know when what i'm listening to is shit too.

now Pinch, i like Pinch. something about it just works for me.

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F that, the first time I got stoned, the first thing I put on was Kruder and Dorfmeister, and it did not change a thing!

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i'm still looking for samples longer than 15sec...

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:) Over the course of time I've grown to love the album by the way. It really gets me in the mood when it's dark cold and rainy outside. mmmmm.

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THE NEW ALBUM SOUNDS AMAZING!

http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=10244



Album Of The Year



RAVER!

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OMG. this sound fantastic! even better than the first probably!

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I think it's more of the same, but first impression is positive. Last track will do good on dancefloors :)

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Download limit reached. Anyone with this wanna up it somewhere and make me love them?

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that link gives me a 404 error

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...