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    this blog post nails it, for me

     

    Untrue on the 42

     

    What is it about the night time that leaves us so exposed to music?

     

    I sometimes think that nothing else on earth can be as affecting as listening to a good record alone, at night, on a bus or driving in your car. Yet I’m never sure if it’s the records I listen to that provoke these “night feelings” or if it’s night itself which changes how they sound. I wish I could answer these kind of questions more succinctly.

     

    Of course, the record that has got me thinking about all of this, and everyone else too it seems, is Burial’s “Untrue”. Last week I listened to it for the second time on a bus into Dublin’s city centre, with practically nobody else on board. The view from a bus at night is one of the weirdest ways of looking at familiar places, as you trundle along in a cocoon of light, barely able to see anything but the reflections of the inside unless you really press right up against the glass. I think I enjoy listening to music in a moving vehicle more than in any other place (barring a good nightclub, possibly.)

     

    But it’s this particular zone, when it’s night time and quiet and cold, that I find myself feeling pretty polemical about the music I like. Last week I had a moment like this, somewhere in the middle of Untrue. I thought: “isn’t this the greatest music in the world?”, and simultaneously felt like the bus journey actually was now significant, because I’d listened to the record. By “this music” I guess I mean “dub”, in which I’d include most of the house and techno discussed here.

     

    That might seem a bit rich to some, but I think it’d be wrong to say that dubstep is the only dance genre indebted to dub. As such I can’t help but feel that the reason Untrue is getting such effusive praise in the mainstream is that it is one of the first records I can think of to bring the jaw-dropping solemnity and melancholy of electronic dub, the backbone of so much brilliant electronic music, to people in a really direct and accessible way.

     

    Anyone who has listened to a lot of dance music might wonder what all the fuss about Burial is, at least in terms of how “new” this sound is. I base that purely on the fact that this album seemed so instantly familiar to me, and seemed to hit so many of the same buttons as the house and techno I listen to. Plus it’s worth mentioning how out of this world really bass heavy dub can sound. I mean, hell, if I’m at a festival and they’re playing old Jamaican stuff on a huge system I still kind of think “holy shit” at how intense some of it is.

     

    So if you’ve listened to Basic Channel or other dubstep (I’m dubstep illiterate) or deep house or minimal or tons of other styles, you may already feel accustomed to some of the feelings Untrue provokes (the opening of “Dog Shelter” reminds me of “Heroin” by Superpitcher) That’s not to say you won’t love it though.

     

    I’ve taken to it pretty instantly. It’s a brilliantly poppy take on some of the biggest ideas that electronic music has to offer. It makes things I thought were unique to house or techno seem universal and essential, and seems to have allowed these qualities to crossover in a way that house and techno albums have been largely failing to do.

     

    If you’re looking for one of those records that spins your thoughts out into space and lets them breathe (am I the only one who needs a good DJ mix to help me pay attention to my book when on a busy train or bus?) then Untrue is the one for you. It makes me glad to be on public transport (now my praise has gone too far!)

     

    PS: Call me an Irish alcoholic but if you’re going on a night out, a bottle of beer plus this record plus the bus is like some zen level of mental preparation. Just don’t shove the bottle in the corner of the seat afterwards! HIAF recommends Hoegaarden and Kronenberg 1664 Blanc.

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    yeah i like martyn

     

     

    http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/48667/

     

    new york mag

    good ref for the wiki

    although

     

    Dubstep, the U.K.’s fledgling dance music,

     

    LOL

     

    oh my good lord, reading it, it is heavily based in places on the wiki article i mostly wrote with P4K and zeibura including structure and even exact wording in the odd occasion. hahahaha this is so weird.

     

    such is the nature of the GFD license!

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    new burial about apparently:

     

    Commix - Be True (Burial Remix) (Metalheadz, 2008)

     

     

     

    no linkage as yet

     

    as for me, i fell in love with/at a girl at joanna newsom and i like to cuddle aftar. feminine side ok

     

    i dunno why bass is considered masculine anyway

    i think clouds have a nice, slightly mental feminine edge

     

    can''t say i'm a big fan of that reminissin trk

     

    cos i'm not

     

    i hate anything even remotely house diva-esque

    although np: V by distance. it's metal, lol

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    i kinda know why people are giving out about losing the shuffle.

     

    the shuffle was one of the things that made me listen to this. i remember telling my mate about this new album by a chap called burial that 'had beats that made me walk funny on phones. no, not funny like autechre beats do. different' what seems like a long time ago

     

    i guess the shuffle comes from garage more than anything else, and i love it, but i can also see why some producers have grown a bit weary of exploring the possibilities of a delayed snare on the 2 and 4 or whatever...

     

    there was a benga track in silly time sigs that skream was dropping for a while in sets which i thought kinda stretched it to its natural conclusion, which i have mentioned loadsa times. at this stage will probably never see the light of day :(

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    for kaini.......

     

    Lasering Wonky Bass Ballz!

     

    Starkey destructified this track but I love it.....

     

    lol, he stomps all over the original

     

    i like the 80s ryuichi sakamoto pads in the beginning and at 3:20 as much as the bass (which has sorta stopped being bass really, lol)

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    check out caspa and rusko - fabric mix (37? (live?) ) for more stuff like that, cody - it's where i first heard the track

     

    it's a bit fucking ravey - listening to various shackleton now as a palate-cleanser

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    anyway i know that this track is comedy bass

     

    i know that shit like this is dragging dubstep into arguably gatecrasher territory

     

    at least there's no

    {ethnic sample

    {wobbler

    {drop}}}

    archetype

     

    jesus did i just use k&r notation to describe a drop? :cry:

     

    but nevertheless the first time i heard this track i was all wtf is this. fun bassline and no denying it

     

    caspa & rusko - gone 2 far

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    caspa and rusko - bread get bun

    pure cheese, and not exactly new but i love nonetheless

     

    the fabric mix is a bit frothy but not in a bad way (but not in a bad way - see the volume of dubstep allstars mixed by n-type to see this gone wrong). the fabric mix is the sort of thing i would play to people to get em askin what that wobbly sound is, lol.

     

    i am fond of the cockney stylings of caspa and rusko

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    holy crap caspa versioning AoN!

    think i have it in a mix but think dubplate only but if anyone wants to contradict me....

     

    my holy grail is a copy of the benga dub that is usually known as 'mental time sig' :D

    it made me dance like a pirate

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