LOAFE AND MERGE

Phasen · Post by **Phasen** » Tue May 12, 2009 4:09 pm

john fonda wrote:plans are afoot for a compilation of bibio,loafe and merge,letherette and lone...

Haha, flying lotus will probably hear that and feel left out.

All of those guys are f***ing incredible^^

Archrival · Post by **Archrival** » Tue May 12, 2009 6:54 pm

I soooo want this album been waiting since 2006. Loafe and Merge have made the most interesting music I heard in ages.

I think he should focus on this project insted of Letherette...its no way as original.

john fonda · Post by **john fonda** » Tue May 12, 2009 7:25 pm

letherette are money

loafe and merge is the joint

tough call

follower of both...

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:17 pm

Loving this. My dollars are waiting for you, L&M!

john fonda · Post by **john fonda** » Tue May 12, 2009 9:31 pm

shame his track SIT aint up on the page still

stunning piece of music, very broken down

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Tue May 12, 2009 10:06 pm

Yeah, I like this.... but like Bibio, I just don't get what everyone sees in it that makes it God's Own Music. Seems like a talented musical guy... making music that is nice.... but I honestly wouldn't pay for an album of this music. It doesn't stick. It doesn't tug my heartstrings. I can't get lost in it either. It's just... "yeah, this is good. this is good music. moving on." Oh well.

two lives · Post by **two lives** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:21 pm

turquoise70 wrote:Yeah, I like this.... but like Bibio, I just don't get what everyone sees in it that makes it God's Own Music. Seems like a talented musical guy... making music that is nice.... but I honestly wouldn't pay for an album of this music. It doesn't stick. It doesn't tug my heartstrings. I can't get lost in it either. It's just... "yeah, this is good. this is good music. moving on." Oh well.

Are you waiting for someone to explain what's good about it? Could you be convinced via words? If you don't feel it, you don't feel it. Maybe you will, maybe you won't. But there are people here who don't get your summaries either : )

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:47 pm

two lives wrote: Are you waiting for someone to explain what's good about it? Could you be convinced via words? If you don't feel it, you don't feel it. Maybe you will, maybe you won't.

Point taken, I'm just wondering if there's any elements in particular that have caused so many people on the previous page to reach such an enthusiastic consensus about how this music is "above" so many other types - "not just ambient" or what have you - to use the words you used, i don't see what is so complex about it that one must be evolved mentally to 'get' it.

two lives wrote:But there are people here who don't get your summaries either : )

I'm sure there are but I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that... not trying to antagonize, just communicate..

john fonda · Post by **john fonda** » Wed May 13, 2009 12:11 am

the sound design and melodies are far stronger than 98 per cent of music in general

that is my take

that is why I always go back

the guy has taste

very apparent

Twoism-ist · Post by **Twoism-ist** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:45 am

turquoise70 wrote:Yeah, I like this.... but like Bibio, I just don't get what everyone sees in it that makes it God's Own Music. Seems like a talented musical guy... making music that is nice.... but I honestly wouldn't pay for an album of this music. It doesn't stick. It doesn't tug my heartstrings. I can't get lost in it either. It's just... "yeah, this is good. this is good music. moving on." Oh well.

HERESY, I SAY!

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:56 am

Twoism-ist wrote:
turquoise70 wrote:Yeah, I like this.... but like Bibio, I just don't get what everyone sees in it that makes it God's Own Music. Seems like a talented musical guy... making music that is nice.... but I honestly wouldn't pay for an album of this music. It doesn't stick. It doesn't tug my heartstrings. I can't get lost in it either. It's just... "yeah, this is good. this is good music. moving on." Oh well.
HERESY, I SAY!

okay.

Archrival · Post by **Archrival** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:17 am

For me the music by Loafe and Merge is more spiritual than most of the music out there.

john fonda · Post by **john fonda** » Wed May 13, 2009 12:54 pm

I would imagine that wud be integral to it,almost a soundtrack to death resulting in creation

I find it very filmic and widescreen

Nonsuch · Post by **Nonsuch** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:28 pm

Archrival -

loafe and merge music touches on emotions that I'll never be able to translate into words, but spiritual is damn close! [/quote]

john fonda · Post by **john fonda** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:37 pm

if you listen to "snake in a bag" to use one example the following contrasts come to pass:

glad and sorry

wonderment and realization

knowingness and mystery

minimal music or films allow you to dream and visualize more easily, it gives you the freedom to personalize, do you really want all the parts of the puzzle?

less equals more, this springs to mind

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me--xHG-mQ

Twoism-ist · Post by **Twoism-ist** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:42 pm

turquoise70 wrote:
okay.

Now I feel like a megadork for worshipping this music like mad and youre all "whatever dudes"

Phasen · Post by **Phasen** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:59 pm

I'm with you turquoise. I love em all, but bibio the least. It gets a little monotonous to sit through a whole album of his stuff. Great composition, but stagnant to me at times. I guess he just has such a defined 'sound' that it gets stale to me...but hey- if that sound is your cup o tea then i see why you'd adore it so.

Loafe and Merge though- I can get into that a lot more. Less folky, more funky. His work as letherette is better to me though, cause the beats are sick and Loafe and Merge seems pretty 'all-out ambient', which is listed as a turn off on my e-harmony profile. (<--just playing. Def don't have one haha)

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:02 pm

i dunno i'm not gonna belabor the point anymore, i just thought i'd express my thoughts since i suddenly noticed such a wide discord between how a lot of people on this board feel about Artist Valley stuff and how it strikes me. i don't think you have to be evolved or intelligent or whatever to dig on it, but i do think it either hits you right or hits you wrong, and to me it just kind of all falls flat and boring and has no heart to it. that's just a subjective judgment and i'm no more trying to argue everyone else to agree with it than yall are trying to argue me to feel the way you do about it. i'm totally sorry if i said anything unkind to the artists, i respect what they do, but it just doesn't catch me in the way that makes me want to go "Hell yeah this guy is the shit oh my god" like I do for much other music

EDIT: word phasen i almost forgot to mention that, letherette is totally awesome, i'm downtown with that shit!! that is a sweet counter example.

john fonda · Post by **john fonda** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:04 pm

fair enough

there is more than meets the eye though

nurthice · Post by **nurthice** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:39 pm

john fonda wrote:fair enough

there is more than meets the eye though

i think sometimes people judge music too much, waiting to get impressed, rather than just let it flow.
some music can be very impressive and all, but not everything is like that. i wasn't impressed by MHTRTC when i heard it, but a few months later it was back in my head. it just took more time.

i like loafe and merge a lot. it may sound simple, but it takes me somewhere when i listen to it.