Released: 2005Website
Genre: Prog./Experimental Metal
Country: Sweden
- Intro
- Shizophriend
- Sag Lessek
- LysergSäureDiäthylamid (LSD)
- Shrugga
- Raped Visions
- Rebellion
- Nothing
- Empty Flower Vox Edit (Bonustrack)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Shedding
Released: 2005Website
Genre: Prog./Experimental Metal
Country: Sweden
Sol
Released: 02/03/2008
Website
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Country: Ireland
- Intro
- The Titan Skies
- Twisted Structures Against the Sun
- With Fire in Our Veins We Drown in Light
Anthology II
Released: 07/19/2008Website
Genre: Avant Garde/Gothic Metal
Country: France
- Preface
- Chrysalis
- Beyond the Sky
- Khamsin
- Reflections
- Awake
- The Golden Vortex of Kaltaz
- The Secret of Time
- Stolen Tears
- Trance: H.L.4
- The Bottle of Lie
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Creating Music in My Sleep??
This has been happening to me on and off for about 3 years or so. When I go to bed I'll enter, what I assume is, REM then wake up randomly and hear an unwritten symphony or piece of music in my head. I can hear ALL of the parts being played simultaneously. I'm pretty positive I've never heard any of this music before in my life, whether from when I was younger or sitting in a room with the TV/radio on for background noise. I didn't start listening to classical music until I was about 14.
I've tried researching this on Google but I keep getting some shitty band who's song is called "Singing In My Sleep" or some shit. If anyone knows what this is called please get back to me ASAP. I'd like to research it as much as possible and be able to utilize it because I've had alot of good music that I could have written pass me by in my sleep. Thanks alot
I've tried researching this on Google but I keep getting some shitty band who's song is called "Singing In My Sleep" or some shit. If anyone knows what this is called please get back to me ASAP. I'd like to research it as much as possible and be able to utilize it because I've had alot of good music that I could have written pass me by in my sleep. Thanks alot
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Holy Shit! Steve From Blue's Clues Music Album
I thought this was hilarious and I had heard about it but never gave it a listen. Give it a listen and see what you think. From what I've been reading it's essentially a Flaming Lips album but with Steve Burns on guitar, vocals and everything except drums...Haven't heard either so here it goes. "Songs for Dustmites"
- Mighty Little Man
- What I Do on Saturday
- Maintain
- >1
- Troposphere
- Stick Around
- A Reason
- Music for Montgomery County, PA
- A Song for Dustmites
- Superstrings
- A Sniveling Mess
- Henry Krinkle's Lament
So All This New "Heavy" Music That's Been Coming Out...
I can dig it. The majority of it is pretty brutal and atonal. The heavy parts are fucking massive, the fast parts and phenomenally fast and the technical riffs/solos are moving and tight like a tiger (heh)...but it's mostly background noise now. Maybe it's just the record effect, but most of these bands nowadays are all really starting to either sound the same or become extreme background noise. Maybe my musical taste is just changing or, trying not to sound like a pretentious prick, maybe it's maturing. I've gotten past the whole "HEAVY IS THE SHIT!! FUCK YEA!" phase in my musical journey. Granted, I still do appreciate it and love it as much as I did but now I'm more about mixing things and musical maturity and sophistication (AKA mixing in jazz fusion parts after a mathcore riff in 19/16, that only an ass like me would get), which some people here in this town don't seem to understand or appreciate. Sometimes I wish I grew up somewhere else. Hopefully I'll be able to move to Austin and attend UT like I'm planning on doing. Ehh that's enough. With that said go check out the new Despised Icon album "Day of Mourning." It's chock-full of extreme background noise. Still enjoyable though :]
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Masters of Dub
Released: 2001Website
Genre: Reggae/Dub Production
Country: Jamaica
- Liquidation Dub
- Ankle Mechanic Dub
- Burial Dub
- Joyful Dub
- Minstreal Dub
- Fiery Dub
- Move and Groove Dub
- Hypocryte Dub
- African Dub Style
- Peaceful Dub
- Blazing Away Dub
- Late Night Dub
- War of Dub
- One Way Dub
- Pretty Dub
- Dub Hold I & II
- Righteous Dub
- Rock Steady Dub
- A Loving Dub
(Mediafire)
We Are the Romans
Released: 01/01/2000Website
Genre: Mathcore
Country: USA
- To Our Friends in the Great White North
- Mondrian Was a Liar
- Transitions from Persona to Object
- Swimming the Channel Vs. Driving the Chunnel
- C. Thomas Howell as the "Soul Man"
- St. Matthew Returns to the Womb
- Frequency Ass Bandit
- I Wanna Be a Sex Symbol on My Own Terms
- Man the Ramparts
- We Are the Romans
(Megaupload)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
With the current weather here in Laredo
I've come to really fall in love with Reggae/Dub music. There's something about the mood it sets with the way the rain falls down on your windshield and the wipers move rhythmically* to the skank of the guitar and organ. I'm currently on the lookout for more Reggae and/or Dub artists and bands so I'll be updating this blog with more of that for the time being. If you know of any good artists that I'm missing on this blog let me know!
*I butchered that word so bad that I needed spell check
*I butchered that word so bad that I needed spell check
Monday, September 21, 2009
Blumenkraft
Released: May 13, 2003Website
Genre: Electronic Dub
Country: USA
- Jack's Cheese and Bread Snack
- Somersettler
- Splitting an Atom
- Escape from Tulse Hell
- Cley Hill
- Billy the Kid Strikes Back
- A Load Up at Nunney Catch
- Spannered in Pilton
- Smoked Glass and Chrome
- Scilly Automatic (bonus)
PASS: io2n.blogspot.com
UK Dub Story
Released: April 28, 2008Website
Genre: Dub
Country: UK
- Fistful of Dub
- Dawn Chorus
- Tired of the War
- Silver Gold
- Night Storm
- Long Time Dub
- Flying Dub
- Kings Highway
- Dub Lalibela
- World of Dub
- Safe in the Dub
- Digital Revolution
PASS: http://mixdiggerz.blogspot.com/
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Grand Partition And The Abrogation Of Idolatry
Released: 2009Website
Genre: Deathgrind
Country: USA
- 10,000 Sermons, 1 Solution
- The Realization That Mankind is Viral in its Nature
- Cattle
- Agenda
- Pity the Living, Envy the Dead
- Despot
- A Path
- Automated Oration and the Abolition of Silence
- One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy
- Colossus
- Retrograde and the Anointed
- Of Worms, Jesus Christ, and Jackson County Missouri
- The Tamagotchi Gesture
- Bonus Track
PASS: eljaggers
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
What We Must
Released: 2005Website
Genre: NuJazz/Post-Rock
Country: Norway
- All I Know is Tonight
- Hotel
- For All You Happy People
- Oslo Skyline
- Swedenborgske Rom
- Mikado
- I Have A Ghost Now What
Why I think Rap Music Should Be Given Away for Free
I was sifting through YouTube videos, looking for BeardyMan videos (or it may have been something else...I can't quite remember). As I watching one of the videos I skimmed through the comments and read one that was a response to someone talking about music piracy and it said something to the effect of
"artistic piracy? man they can keep rap if thats what you mean."
This got me to thinking. (BTW I checked the history in Firefox. That comment came from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sbrilFmqVc&NR=1 ) Why should rappers get paid for the "music" they make? Is it because they write socially fueled commentary on how hard it is to be a black man in America's society, being racially profiled and talk about crack addiction? Then yes, by all means, you should be making bank. But this is looking at it from a writer's standpoint. Let's give this a spin around to get a look at the backside.
If you listen to half of today Rap music, and by listen I mean actively listen; don't just put it on to hear the back beat and some guy with a southern drawl and bad grammar skills talk about the girls he fucked after he left 'da' club, you'll find that the majority of the music or "samples" that they use are just that: samples. As a budding musician we in the music world call this PLAGIARISM. The fact of the matter is that the majority of rap artists, and I'm using that word very loosely in this context, do not write or compose the backing tracks to what they rap over.
Now, hold on; before you get your doo rag in a bunch and start bustin' caps in ma ass let me set something straight:
Mos Def is an artist. He at least played bass, percussion and keyboards on some of the track from his 1999 release "Black on Both Sides" album. Granted, he used samples but the point is that the man had some kind of musical involvement in his work. And Mos Def I can respect because not only is he a rapper but he can also SING, rather well too, as shown on Umi Says of said album and also on the jazz record "Songs from the Analog Playground" on the track Creole. He is also an actor who has come out in dramas, thrillers and comedies (The Italian Job, Cadillac Records, Be Kind Rewind, etc.).
-So let me get this straight. You say that rappers aren't really musicians unless they do alot of work in different fields?-
No, not at all. I'm saying that most rappers aren't musicians because they don't have a musical bone in their body. William S. Boroughs and his spoken word album "Dead City Radio." As far as I know, old Billy S. couldn't tell you what the difference was between Tuvan and Mongolian throat singing. If you think about it this could technically be considered a rap album...ok maybe not by your standards, but hear me out. The musicians who came out and wrote/performed the music were utilized the same way that samples and DJs are being used today in rap music: Boroughs asked them to write music, they obliged and spoke words over it. This is essentially rap music, sans the rhythm and explicit use of the word 'nigga' and 'ho.'
-Hey dawg, don' bee heyt-in ahown rep mewsek. Iz mee bee'n mas'elf, 'naaahmehn? Iz laik...ya no, nigguhz bee trah'n tuh heyt ahown rep mewsek cuuhz theyee bee trip'n, naaahmehn?
Hey don't get me wrong! I love listening to old school Snoop Dogg and Bone Thugs as much as anyone else. But from a musicians standpoint, the creativity is raw shit and full of old ideas. There's very few, if not anymore, original and fresh rappers coming out now a days. We seem to be going through a trend where everything must be Vocoded and Melodyne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodyne)is a must-have for any rapper looking to try and create screeching noises that they consider singing. I've tried to avoid blatant profanity and bluntness, but FUCK people like Lil' Wayne, Kayne West and any half minded ex-crack dealer who comes out of the hood, calling themselves the greatest rapper of all time. There's no way, pard; they're all dead.
Rappers are essentially writers and authors. Modern day street poets who regale us with tales of promiscuity, the party lifestyle and other useless shit that we Americans eat up, pass through our system, pick it up, mold it into the same thing and eat it again. What sets today's rappers apart from actual poets and writers, aside from grammar skills, is one very important thing
Talent.
Whatever happened to being awarded and praised for being something original and fresh and thought-provoking? I always thought the goal of anything was to be yourself and, especially if you're an artist or musician, give the audience a way to glimpse into your mind and your very soul as a human to see what you're made of. But by the looks of today all we're made up of is Crystal, McDonald's and Sex (I capitalize the word Sex because who hasn't capitalized Sex?) and other things that only distract us but for a moment from the moral squalor and depravity our society has become. I don't get it. Maybe I'm not supposed to. But to those of you with half a brain and who actually sat through this rant with your mind opened and saw all of the facts thrown in front of you...
Would you really spend $14.75 on this?
"artistic piracy? man they can keep rap if thats what you mean."
This got me to thinking. (BTW I checked the history in Firefox. That comment came from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sbrilFmqVc&NR=1 ) Why should rappers get paid for the "music" they make? Is it because they write socially fueled commentary on how hard it is to be a black man in America's society, being racially profiled and talk about crack addiction? Then yes, by all means, you should be making bank. But this is looking at it from a writer's standpoint. Let's give this a spin around to get a look at the backside.
If you listen to half of today Rap music, and by listen I mean actively listen; don't just put it on to hear the back beat and some guy with a southern drawl and bad grammar skills talk about the girls he fucked after he left 'da' club, you'll find that the majority of the music or "samples" that they use are just that: samples. As a budding musician we in the music world call this PLAGIARISM. The fact of the matter is that the majority of rap artists, and I'm using that word very loosely in this context, do not write or compose the backing tracks to what they rap over.
Now, hold on; before you get your doo rag in a bunch and start bustin' caps in ma ass let me set something straight:
Mos Def is an artist. He at least played bass, percussion and keyboards on some of the track from his 1999 release "Black on Both Sides" album. Granted, he used samples but the point is that the man had some kind of musical involvement in his work. And Mos Def I can respect because not only is he a rapper but he can also SING, rather well too, as shown on Umi Says of said album and also on the jazz record "Songs from the Analog Playground" on the track Creole. He is also an actor who has come out in dramas, thrillers and comedies (The Italian Job, Cadillac Records, Be Kind Rewind, etc.).
-So let me get this straight. You say that rappers aren't really musicians unless they do alot of work in different fields?-
No, not at all. I'm saying that most rappers aren't musicians because they don't have a musical bone in their body. William S. Boroughs and his spoken word album "Dead City Radio." As far as I know, old Billy S. couldn't tell you what the difference was between Tuvan and Mongolian throat singing. If you think about it this could technically be considered a rap album...ok maybe not by your standards, but hear me out. The musicians who came out and wrote/performed the music were utilized the same way that samples and DJs are being used today in rap music: Boroughs asked them to write music, they obliged and spoke words over it. This is essentially rap music, sans the rhythm and explicit use of the word 'nigga' and 'ho.'
-Hey dawg, don' bee heyt-in ahown rep mewsek. Iz mee bee'n mas'elf, 'naaahmehn? Iz laik...ya no, nigguhz bee trah'n tuh heyt ahown rep mewsek cuuhz theyee bee trip'n, naaahmehn?
Hey don't get me wrong! I love listening to old school Snoop Dogg and Bone Thugs as much as anyone else. But from a musicians standpoint, the creativity is raw shit and full of old ideas. There's very few, if not anymore, original and fresh rappers coming out now a days. We seem to be going through a trend where everything must be Vocoded and Melodyne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodyne)is a must-have for any rapper looking to try and create screeching noises that they consider singing. I've tried to avoid blatant profanity and bluntness, but FUCK people like Lil' Wayne, Kayne West and any half minded ex-crack dealer who comes out of the hood, calling themselves the greatest rapper of all time. There's no way, pard; they're all dead.
Rappers are essentially writers and authors. Modern day street poets who regale us with tales of promiscuity, the party lifestyle and other useless shit that we Americans eat up, pass through our system, pick it up, mold it into the same thing and eat it again. What sets today's rappers apart from actual poets and writers, aside from grammar skills, is one very important thing
Talent.
Whatever happened to being awarded and praised for being something original and fresh and thought-provoking? I always thought the goal of anything was to be yourself and, especially if you're an artist or musician, give the audience a way to glimpse into your mind and your very soul as a human to see what you're made of. But by the looks of today all we're made up of is Crystal, McDonald's and Sex (I capitalize the word Sex because who hasn't capitalized Sex?) and other things that only distract us but for a moment from the moral squalor and depravity our society has become. I don't get it. Maybe I'm not supposed to. But to those of you with half a brain and who actually sat through this rant with your mind opened and saw all of the facts thrown in front of you...
Would you really spend $14.75 on this?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Hell-O!
Released: 1988Website
Genre: Hardcore Punk
Country: USA
- Timè fôr Deäth
- ÅEIÖU
- Americànized
- I'm in Löve (With a Deåd Dog)
- Slütmañ City
- World Ô Filth
- War Toy
- Cåptain Crünch
- Püre as the Årctic Snôw
- Je M'Appelle J. Cöusteaü
- GWAR Theme
- Bône Meal
- Öllie North
- Techno's Song
- U Ain't Shit
- Rock & Roll Pärty Töwn
Human Error: Ways to Self Destruction
Released: August 23, 2002Website
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Country: Poland
- Satanic Syndrome 666
- Waterfalls of Darkness
- Lunatic Gate
- Hallowed Whores
- Crionics
- Episode of the Falling Start
- Matrix of Piety
- Precipice Gaped
- Sacrosanct Strength
- Indoctrination Procedure
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