BT - This Binary Universe

[Ally]

Originally Posted by EuroZeroZero

The 'surround thing' ? You know, you don't HAVE to listen to it that way. 5 Channel sound neatly converts to 2 channel stereo... nobody is saying you have to listen to it in a theatre...it's just a the medium that the artist thought best would suit this work (I haven't listened to this album though, yet)...which seems like some sort of EMO-Hippy-NewAge-EverythingisBeautiful-ILoveMyDaughter trip that he's trying to pull off.

Dont hate on the 5 channel records, I think it's a great system to having originally recorded something in DTS, rather than recording it originally in Stereo and then "converting" it to 5 channel later in the studio.

You missed what he was referring to - my statement about how much of a faff it is to put yourself in a surround listening situation. No-one was criticising surround sound.

[darktrain]

i'm a pretty big fan of the guy (well not so much since the last album)...and while the sound clips sound promising...
the website is SO pretentious...especially this little nugget:
"BT is the creative force currently driving digital songwriting and soundscaping in its evolution into the audio-visual-spiritual art-form that will define and inspire the human narrative of the 21st Century"

[dubman]

Originally Posted by darktrain

i'm a pretty big fan of the guy (well not so much since the last album)...and while the sound clips sound promising...
the website is SO pretentious...especially this little nugget:
"BT is the creative force currently driving digital songwriting and soundscaping in its evolution into the audio-visual-spiritual art-form that will define and inspire the human narrative of the 21st Century"

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

oh shit, i didnt see that
that's some gold

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Not to sound condescending, just some food for thought it guess.

What website isn't pretentious? Websites are simply advertisements on the grandious scale. If a website wasn't pretentious, it would be boring. On the same note, BT has very little if any control over the marketing of his art forms. I have no idea which one, but I remember he signed on with one of the larger scale recording companies. They could careless (really, they don't care) what he produces. They simply want it to sell. That's where you get the over adjective ladden babble that record companies think will attract the "serious" music buyer.

I'm not too crazy about BT either, his music became a bit homogenized. Like his music/visuals or not, you'd have to be an idiot to not agree that the boy has talent.

[Ally]

Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ

What website isn't pretentious? Websites are simply advertisements on the grandious scale. If a website wasn't pretentious, it would be boring. On the same note, BT has very little if any control over the marketing of his art forms. I have no idea which one, but I remember he signed on with one of the larger scale recording companies. They could careless (really, they don't care) what he produces. They simply want it to sell. That's where you get the over adjective ladden babble that record companies think will attract the "serious" music buyer.

Totally agree - it's one of the contributing factors to myspace blowing up the way it has, I now rely almost 100% on artists' myspace sites versus their websites. The key factor is that the artists themselves maintain the myspace site, so the content is more often than not more up to date, especially tour dates, and crucially it feels more honest.

[djeddy]

i think its an attempt to re-animate Ima and the success and fanfare it brought. something he's lost since movement in still life (US version)

[djeddy]

hey..has anybody listened to this yet?

its actually pretty good.

like..a 4way cross of BoC, Eno, Schnauss, ...and french goat cheese.