Albums You're Digging

turquoisey · Post by **turquoisey** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:04 pm

I'm not sure if there's a topic for this yet, (if there is, go ahead and lock this one.) but I feel like there needs to be a thread. Just post an album you're really digging and tell us about it. I find this is a good way to find out about new music.

as for me; I'm really digging this:

It's the soundtrack to Inception. I really liked the movie, and the soundtrack is pretty epic. If you've seen the movie, and like dreamy, detached, desolate music, go DL this.

Numerator · Post by **Numerator** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:42 pm

I've always liked Arcade Fire but this is their best record yet, it sounds so grandiose and rich
and Win Butler's vocals sound as heartfelt as ever...

my favourite track

vonarx · Post by **vonarx** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:39 am

hateful of hollow by the smiths.

Synthestesia · Post by **Synthestesia** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:06 am

Numerator wrote:
I've always liked Arcade Fire but this is their best record yet, it sounds so grandiose and rich
and Win Butler's vocals sound as heartfelt as ever...

my favourite track

I thought I was the only one!

dp · Post by dp » Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:38 am

Naal · Post by **Naal** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 1:32 pm

Peer - Dances

really enjoyable chiptunes on this little album + it's free !
http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2010/04/peer-dances

Soulthriller · Post by **Soulthriller** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:38 pm

I just picked up the new Carbon Based Lifeforms album that came out a few months ago and feel compelled to listen to it in its entirety every time I get the urge to listen to it..which is pretty often right about now.

sub-r · Post by **sub-r** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:04 pm

At the moment Im really enjoying "And they have escaped the weight of darkness" by Olafur Arnalds. Great neo-classical work

IanRedpoint · Post by **IanRedpoint** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:51 pm

sub-r wrote:At the moment Im really enjoying "And they have escaped the weight of darkness" by Olafur Arnalds. Great neo-classical work

Seconded. Beautiful record.

Aserine · Post by **Aserine** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:13 pm

Naal wrote:Peer - Dances

really enjoyable chiptunes on this little album + it's free !
http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2010/04/peer-dances

Great to see somebody else enjoying chipmusic around here! It is a great little album and Dance 3 is one of my all time favourite tracks.

Numerator wrote:
I've always liked Arcade Fire but this is their best record yet, it sounds so grandiose and rich
and Win Butler's vocals sound as heartfelt as ever...

my favourite track

also, I went to see Arcade Fire at Leeds Fest a week ago and they played a lot of tracks from this. It's my favourite by them as of yet and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to.

JosephG · Post by **JosephG** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:09 am

I am really liking Merriweather Post Pavilion still.... I know it's a bit old by now, but still great

Twoism-ist · Post by **Twoism-ist** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 3:50 am

trademark ribbons of gold, DANGER's EPS, ecstasy and friends, lots of electronic recently,

i've been listening to the incredible string band a lot more as well.

747Music · Post by **747Music** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:28 am

Twoism-ist wrote:DANGER's EPS

I love Danger.

I've gone back and been listening to Infected Mushroom some more. Check out the album "Classical Mushroom"

Brilliant stuff for sure.

Neurotangent · Post by **Neurotangent** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:49 am

Soulthriller wrote:I just picked up the new Carbon Based Lifeforms album that came out a few months ago and feel compelled to listen to it in its entirety every time I get the urge to listen to it..which is pretty often right about now.

Yes! Me too. CBL is my favorite band (BoC comes in very close 2nd

). They're absolutely brilliant.

Naal · Post by **Naal** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:14 pm

Aserine wrote:
Naal wrote:Peer - Dances

really enjoyable chiptunes on this little album + it's free !
http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2010/04/peer-dances
Great to see somebody else enjoying chipmusic around here! It is a great little album and Dance 3 is one of my all time favourite tracks.

Yeah good album right; I love Dance 4 and Dance 5.
I'm not too familiar with chipmusic , and usually find gameboy composed chiptunes not that very enjoyable or too much all over the place , but this is great.

Aserine · Post by **Aserine** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:12 pm

Naal wrote:
Aserine wrote:
Naal wrote:Peer - Dances

really enjoyable chiptunes on this little album + it's free !
http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2010/04/peer-dances
Great to see somebody else enjoying chipmusic around here! It is a great little album and Dance 3 is one of my all time favourite tracks.

Yeah good album right; I love Dance 4 and Dance 5.
I'm not too familiar with chipmusic , and usually find gameboy composed chiptunes not that very enjoyable or too much all over the place , but this is great.

Well, I've been into making and listening to chipmusic for quite a few years now but I have to agree with you regarding how gameboy artists go about creating their music. Assuming you like BoC you might dig some of the mid 90's demoscene stuff often produced on the Amiga/PC, there were a lot of brilliant ambient artists like Brothomstates/Dune, Lackluster, Vim and Radix! Not as messily composed or stupidly melodic, hehe.

Guido · Post by **Guido** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:22 pm

I'd even go as far to say that the contemporary style of chipmusic is an almost entirely different genre than the stuff me and my internetbuddies used to produce in the late nineties, which had a clear emphasis on good, emotional, happy melodies (usually) and good techniques (which was a result of the demoscene ideal that a good scener would be able to use minimal means to create epic productions), whereas the current "gameboy music" merely seems to lean on the "retro" aesthetic as a base for its succes.

ninetyoneplus · Post by **ninetyoneplus** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 11:32 pm

Toro y Moi - Causers of This
Bonobo - Black Sands
Beach Boys - Best Of
Slowdive - Souvlaki

Aserine · Post by **Aserine** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 11:50 pm

Guido wrote:I'd even go as far to say that the contemporary style of chipmusic is an almost entirely different genre than the stuff me and my internetbuddies used to produce in the late nineties, which had a clear emphasis on good, emotional, happy melodies (usually) and good techniques (which was a result of the demoscene ideal that a good scener would be able to use minimal means to create epic productions), whereas the current "gameboy music" merely seems to lean on the "retro" aesthetic as a base for its succes.

Absolutely. There's a few artists out there that do try different stuff with the GB and focus on the limitations and synthesis (cTrix, little-scale, Peer, Beastmode, Je deviens dj en 3 jours and newer Nullsleep material) but like you said a lot use the whole GB thing as an attention seeking device whilst playing their boring 4/4 music, heh.
I think a lot of them would be screwed if it came to having to keep their tunes under 32kb or making a song using only 1 sample

/thread derail

The Voice of Reason · Post by **The Voice of Reason** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:35 am

WHOA! So good