Ride the Sky: The Music of Flight

[WashYourHands]

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[WashYourHands]

I can’t do this thread, it’s either too little or too much

a tune @Leo referenced might be more suited, multiple rewinds first exposure rushin, it comes on like clean cocaine and eases off as quickly too

 

[mixed_biscuits]

 

[version]

 

[version]

This one's always sounded to me like flying at night, low to the ground. Witches on broomsticks rushing the motorways of England.

 

[linebaugh]

Your standing in the back of a convertible going 60 mph on the highway pointing at the passing cars

 

[blissblogger]

This really takes off around the 20 minute mark and goes into perpetual-ascent mode - I don't know if it's exactly "the music of flight" but it's some kind of Icarus-rock.


(I guess the bit I'm talking about is "track 3" - really more like a phase in one giant double-album-length piece. Represented by a pictogram ♡ instead of a title)

Prior to this I found the Boredoms really irritating, that sort of splatterily eclectic splurge-purge, attention-deficit-disorder jump-cut frenzy thing. Memories of seeing them live and thinking "what a waste of energy". And underneath the "craziness", just as much a product of Tokyo's legendarily amazing record shops as the daintier stuff coming out of Japan (Pizzicato Five, Cornelius) - just that here, as with other Japanoise types, it's extremes-of-music--oriented record shopping that was getting reconfigured as music-making.

But then they seemed overnight to ... not exactly "grow up' but decide that they wanted to be in the business of elevation.

 

[version]

This one's always sounded like spiraling out into space to me. It's floaty, but has a propulsion to it. We're way beyond the clouds at this point.



And this one's almost Biblical, like being beamed up in a column of sunlight.



Our old favourite.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[thirdform]

jungle i always think as of train music rather than music of the skies

 

[thirdform]

some of the more cluster type japanese noise really hits it.

 

[thirdform]

sometimes its less about speed but more about gliding and floating.

 

[thirdform]

I guess the whole genre of trance is about that but I never get the flying through cyberspace feeling people talk about, with some rare exceptions.

flashcore on the other hand

 

[chava]

This one's always sounded like spiraling out into space to me. It's floaty, but has a propulsion to it. We're way beyond the clouds at this point.

all solid tracks, but this one need an extra mention as this is one of my all time favorites and that's rare as it's not from the 90s. Nearly sublime, weightless vibe and sounds like it was made without effort whatsoever

 

[version]

There's a distinction between not just floating and flying, but also ascending. There are guitar solos that sound like the guitarist's about to start levitating and take off into the stratosphere, but they have no horizontal momentum. It's a different kind of flight, like an angel or rocket rather than a plane.

Vertical -- 18:50



Horizontal -- 1:09

 

[chava]

floating quietly over city flickering lights:

 

[Benny Bunter]

The ascending strings in this:

 

[WashYourHands]

sound of Berkshire air rushing through your hair and a few different illicit compounds coalescing

 

[Benny Bunter]

Whoooo!

 

[other_life]

why is flight harder to capture in music than locomotion/the highway?