its mid line music isn't it? not warped enough to satisfy the head and not physical enough to satisfy the body.I've only listened to a bit of Burial, after reading Fisher's essay about crackle, and I can't recall my feelings about it. I can report back, at some point.
It's interesting that his music, as you say, amounts to (you might say) failed "attempts" at replicating sounds: first garage now rave. (That's if you take the interviews as genuine and it wasn't a deliberately arty project from day one.)I dont agree but I can sympathise with you thinking its a mess. Because he is capable of rhythmic tension and precision, thinking of pirates, wounder, southern comfort, gutted off the first album. sometimes the sketchier ramshackle breaks feel a bit pinned on
all the best bits since untrue have been the ambient love story bits tucked between attempts at rave, and some of them even surpass untrue. come down to us, nightmarket, middle bits of truant, end of rival dealer
This sounds like Burial's origin story tbhIt all felt massively anti climatic. I'd taken a cocktail of drugs which as usual just meant they cancelled each other out and it didn't feel much of anything. Watching the waves roll in, totally indifferent to the new millennium. Once it turned midnight people started hugging each other and that so I had to run away. Gross.
It's interesting that his music, as you say, amounts to (you might say) failed "attempts" at replicating sounds: first garage now rave. (That's if you take the interviews as genuine and it wasn't a deliberately arty project from day one.)
And of course, when modern producers succeed at making garage and hardcore pastiches it's always a bit hollow and underwhelming.
Tim and Pete were kind enough to point me in the direction of superior examples of the form
And I must say this chap Phineus II does blast away my hackles
It's like a perfect combo of the period-precise replication so uncanny it's like time-travel, but with a degree of intricacy that befits this obsessive-compulsive age.
As Pete says:
"it's jungle, classic sounding jungle, made on Amigas and Akais with 90s synths and nothing that would tip you off to it being made 25 years later. But the level of detail to the tracks is just so intense, you'd be hard pressed to find many (any?) actual 93-95s release with that amount of work. People simply didn't have time to do all that back then, since the scene was changing so fast. They didn't have 10,12,15, however many years Mikey [Phineus II] has been doing this to really dig into a particular style, figure out all the rules, and then cheekily start messing with them. At the same time, it still has that 100% rugged bedroom studio feel to it, not some overpolished aseptic "mastery" of a genre."