It’s another Globes of Venus tune…
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ExaptationThis is the sort of thing that Buzz is especially good at:
This is something it’s quite coincidentally very handy for. The basic procedure is as follows:
Devise some minimal chord progression or repeating sequence that can be layered over itself at various pitches and tempos.
Get an instrument, or bank of instruments, to play it into some [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SonataMore Globes of Venus, for your amusement.
If you like this sort of thing, and I suppose there might always be someone out there who does, you might also enjoy the collected works of Tin Ear Enterprises (me again).
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Globes Of VenusSince everyone and his maiden aunt is doing electropop now, I thought I might have a go. Here’s a Red House Painters tune given the treatment.
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TenterhooksVenomenology begins…
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Reductio Ad AbsurdamTwo laps of the cycle of fifths.
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Black HousesI think it was Neil Kulkarni, reviewing the second full Wu-Tang release in Melody Maker, who concluded an admiring survey of the Clan’s ever-evolving group mythology with: “they’ve thought about this”. Certainly a large part of the appeal, to me, of GZA’s Liquid Swords lay in its ability to sustain the listener’s sense that its [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Polish the fork and stick the fork in himHaintology is done, with “Insidious Reconstruction” the closer.
“Ontology of Violence” will follow. After that, I may come up with a title without an “ology” in it. Or, I may not.
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Paint The Devil On The WallSome elements of Xasthur’s sonic world will be familiar to anyone who’s ever plugged an electric guitar directly into the line-in socket of a PC: the aural murk and imbalance of 2006’s Subliminal Genocide are as much artifacts of the recording technology as they are a reflection of the dreary hatefulness of creator Malefic’s inner [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Paint The Devil On The WallSome elements of Xasthur’s sonic world will be familiar to anyone who’s ever plugged an electric guitar directly into the line-in socket of a PC: the aural murk and imbalance of 2006’s Subliminal Genocide are as much artifacts of the recording technology as they are a reflection of the dreary hatefulness of creator Malefic’s inner [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Paint The Devil On The WallSome elements of Xasthur’s sonic world will be familiar to anyone who’s ever plugged an electric guitar directly into the line-in socket of a PC: the aural murk and imbalance of 2006’s Subliminal Genocide are as much artifacts of the recording technology as they are a reflection of the dreary hatefulness of creator Malefic’s inner [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Paint The Devil On The WallSome elements of Xasthur’s sonic world will be familiar to anyone who’s ever plugged an electric guitar directly into the line-in socket of a PC: the aural murk and imbalance of 2006’s Subliminal Genocide are as much artifacts of the recording technology as they are a reflection of the dreary hatefulness of creator Malefic’s inner [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website