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KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

New bonobo album is pretty solid.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I am seeing him in Feb.

Here is party song

new burial was released yesterday. easily one of the most influential producers of the last 15 yrs or so.

rare for a new music release to feel like an 'event' in the always-online, streaming-everything world, but it's nice to check twitter and the music press today/yesterday and see everyone discussing the exact same thing, and sharing in equal enthusiasms. wow ... connection and community built around music! how very retro.





his music has developed in a really interesting way since the post-dubstep era. much more ambitious now. long suites with lots of ambience and slow development. still somehow perfectly encapsulating that feeling of being lost in london in the winter. every year aroundabout christmas or so he pops up from his mysterious obscurity and leaves us with another offering.

still one of the best electronic albums of the 21st century thus far.

Last edited by uziq (2022-01-07 05:15:33)

he went ambient on the last few EPs, or started including long ambient b-sides on the flip to his more regular drum-based stuff.

what’s more interesting is his shift, tonally, from the early albums being about urban isolation, anomie, heartbreak, etc, to something much more restorative and hopeful now. the sampling and audio nods to much more affirmative and upbeat genres of music (recent EPs have had peak-rave-era happy hardcore as well as almost 1980s stadium rock levels of euphoria).

he’s extremely elusive and has only given about two interviews, ever, as well as only releasing two photos or so (and those very recently after like a decade of feverish speculation). from what little he has said, it sounds like he’s making music now explicitly to help out people with their loneliness etc.

totally singular producer who has managed to carve his own sound in an era of software-induced homogeneity. his imitators are legion and nobody captures the same vibe, that missing ingredient.

Last edited by uziq (2022-01-07 06:20:05)

I hate Einaudi. I just can't stand his music and anything like it. Can't really explain. It just feels like piano for simpletons. It grates my ears and feels like an auditory experience akin to eating at a really shitty mcdonalds. Most people who like his stuff are, coincidentally, pretentious simpletons.

Someone told me they like einaudi and started blasting it after I said I occasionally listen to classical. It took near inhuman self control to remain civil

no einaudi is objectively worse. I can actually enjoy a mcdonalds meal if it doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. As far as eating metaphors go, einaudi is like a michelin starred restaurant serving you a processed hamburger on a not even toasted bun. In the kitchen there's all the ingredients and machinery to make something amazing, but the head chef is such a fucking tosser that a fucked up burger is all he can muster. You don't even understand how he made something so fucking bad, but it's there.

That's Einaudi. It's as though he let a three year old toddler pick the chords on a steinway, while another equally retarded child gets to play conductor for the orchestra.

Techno/EDM I feel can actually be enjoyed in simplistic forms because it's not inherently meant to be a high culture experience.

I also see what you did there u cunt

he releases on a formerly rock/post-rock label that has now become very middle-aged. they call it 'contemporary classical'. i hate it.

his whole schtick seems to be being very emOtiOnaL during live performances. recently he has begun layering synth arpeggios over his piano work because ~electronic~ is cool now. why would anyone listen to nils frahm live when keith jarrett exists?!?

squarepusher's first album (1996) got a 15th anniversary 2021 remaster. *chef's kiss*. wish i was quick enough to pick up the vinyl release.

is this country music?

detroit masterpiece.