How has burial dated for you?
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WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
a tension sits in its more persuasive elements, eg it def swings, bass face, yet…I’m in the middle and still waiting for it to happen like living the nod out with stripped back Chez Damier heroin-house - needs a moog solo to juice up all the bass, like lemon with cream to give it a bit more purchase harmonically
seems more music for cars and wraparound headphones
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
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There's an old interview where he says the 'car test' is what makes or breaks a tune for him. If he thinks it sounds good driving around at night in his mate's car then he's nailed it.
william_kent
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I've met people who reckon city centre top deck of the late night bus home plus headphones is the correct listening environment
I can't imagine hearing him for the first time now and it having the same impact it did in the 2000s, even the early stuff. It sounds much less striking and impressive to me than it once did, although it's hard to tell whether that's down to me, him or the time barrier.
naivete. you weren't listening to bernard parmegiani in 2007. i mean, i weren't.
What's your point?
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
It’s similar to iterations of hardcore, jungle and d+b all siphoned via multiple iterations of human ears right as drum programming got pastiched to oblivion
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william_kent
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there was a time ( about 2007? ) when I insisted that Burial may be Blackdown
Burial - Temple Sleeper
this is one of the better later tunes
"Ardkore trance"
yeah, it's not comparable to steve gurley. don't bother.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
You end up wondering if you have heard Burial and it either didn’t register or all blended into a personal background
Part of the mythology was down to the interviews where he somehow perfectly described his own music via jungle tapes and the sound effects from Alien.
Burial: Unedited Transcript - The Wire
www.thewire.co.uk
the more attuned your ear becomes, musically I mean, the more easy it is to see its trappings and where it fails.
Right, that's why I said I wasn't sure whether it was down to me, him or the time barrier. It could be any of the three, or some combination.
I mean I know people who are still mad for Burial. So clearly the time barrier doesn't exist for them. Albeit for me there is music from that era which has dated well. Joker, Autechre, some dBridge stuff, ASC, Shackleton, Coki, Terror Danjah, hyphy,
etc.
Burial: ... I’m not into big intros, because if you’ve got a big intro, the rest of the tune is forever the rest of the tune, and the intro’s forever the intro. You can never get lost in it, you know where you are in most tunes, and that just takes away the only reason a tune should exist to me, I can't relate to grey music. I like tunes that just dive straight in, there’s a jump off and once you’re in it, the awareness that you’re two minutes into a tune, or four minutes into a tune is gone. That’s how I like my tunes. Or something like Robert Hood, just pure presence, shark-like, elements woven together. You can sense them sitting there rolling out the tune.
shakahislop
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where someone or other from CCRU managed to insert themselves into the publicity stuff around the album and put the words in burial's mouth (i'm very convinced about this). amazing how effective that was.Part of the mythology was down to the interviews where he somehow perfectly described his own music via jungle tapes and the sound effects from Alien.
Burial: Unedited Transcript - The Wire
www.thewire.co.uk
mixed_biscuits
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There should be more tunes structured like this now that DJs can mix them together within a couple of bars