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haha i mentioned something similar once. also, legowelt and ceephax took kinda similar trajectories imo. the've both made loads of gems but can't be bothered anymore to make significant efforts with their music, now they're just in the game for fun it seems. which results in unsignificant semi-shitty music imo. the paranormal soul album was nice though. I've said that about Ceephax for years now but people think I'm just hattin'. He overcooks everything he does now, the melodies start nice, nice hooks, nice atmosphere then the melodies shift into this ultra cheesy and I hate to say it but it really does sound like elevator music, or better yet, the idea of what I think elevator music would sound like. Then he has to use the freaking 303 of course since he's the acid protégé, his drums are getting worse and worse, too many X0X drum-machines. Listen to probey live, sounds way better without those annoying cheesy interludes. Although I love those retro sounds, I do have the impression that he has milked that cow plenty. More of those retro sounds add nothing. And I must admit I quite like his new tunes as well. To my ears he has a fuller and broader soundpalette nowadays. It's more accessible, but not necessarily in a bad way, imo. Less Kraftwerk, and more ...euh... Quincy Jones!? That's fair but he's been doing the "woolly esoteric techno" for years too, he just switched from something that took effort and imagination to something easy that sounds nice enough. I just scratched him off the list to the point that I don't even check his new tracks to see if he's back Ontrackv2.
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2003 release, classic Legowelt, funky, groovy stuff: http://www.discogs.com/Gladio-Slave-Of-Rome/master/387009 2007 release, esoteric trash: http://www.discogs.com/Gladio-Hadrians-Wall-EP/master/11189 2005 was already losing the juice but he still had it: http://www.discogs.com/Chicago-Shags-Chicago-Shags/master/398223 By 2011... Orgue is another one, I don't get the Chicago influence in their later stuff: http://www.discogs.com/Chicago-Shags-Lost-In-A-Blue-Night/release/2889452 What the fuck is this shit honestly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmP2DsqzMVk#t=179 And this, you're telling me he put any effort into this drivel? http://www.discogs.com/Legowelt-Vatos-Locos/master/64179 A candle that burned too fast, also you act like Xosar doesn't exist, which I might add makes better house/techno/ambient tracks than him now. I suspect he makes the tracks that he makes now partially to impress her, his old tracks sounded like he was trying to find the girl, now he has the girl. Either way Legowelt should stick to what he does best and that's electro-disco and italo traxxx. How can anyone deny that this is way better than anything he put out since? http://www.discogs.com/Squadra-Blanco-Night-Of-The-Illuminati/master/15289
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So, basically he shouldn't try to impress anyone and just do his own thing but only if that thing is to just release the same Italo influenced stuff he already mastered 15 years ago? And if he should try to do this, isn't he just trying to impress the vasio mong on the watmm forum :)? I agree though that not all of those 'raw / live' tracks are overwhelming in quality and effort, especially with his earlier Strange Life albums, but he himself claims admits to have a low quality barrier too, but that wasn't different before 2005. He also admits working a lot longer on proper Legowelt tracks, as opposed to other aliases, and I can really hear that in for example that recent Clone album (The Paranormal Soul). I don't prefer anything (just good music), live or programmed to hell, but I'd rather have him change his sound / studio every now and then. He still releases EP's with tracks that are hit or miss, but when it hits... Always worth the experiment instead of playing safe by just bashing out the same albums like some Motorhead-style album factory. The way I see it, he's doing his own thing more than anyone else in that scene these days. He was serving gourmet dishes time and time again, now he's serving leftovers and dishes prepared with "mystical" ingredients that he thinks only he can extract the flavors but in reality just taste like mud. So what if he mastered that sound? What kind of retard argument is that? I would prefer if Dillinja used the apache break on every single track if it meant that he was still producing tracks with the same quality as his mid 90's work. I would prefer if Gerald Donald was still using the Computer World template than the boring stuff he is producing since 2007, using the same exact sounds every single time, he's being remixing and redoing the same track over and over. Legowelt said that before he would slave over a track and that he had a big mixing desk and that now he just makes the tracks in a few hours... guess what? It shows. It's pure drivel with no focus, concept or imagination, makes every synth sound the same, he suxxx.
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Legowelt was great up till 2005 then he started to try to impress the mongs on the old Cybernetic Broadcasting System forum and his tracks and style went to shit. I hate this idea that if a track is made "in one go on the live" that it's better because it retains a certain energy, the result just shows lack of effort and sounds lazy in my opinion. Also if Legovelt is reading this, please stop pretending you're a black guy from Chicago and go back at pretending you're a fat italian.
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This guy is also incredible, sounds straight out of '95: https://soundcloud.com/dwarde/feel-something
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Some modern jungle: https://soundcloud.com/sixteenarmedjack/badboy-business https://soundcloud.com/chopemdownsound/rudi-ragga-2-sounds-go-to-war-b-man-diode-revised
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Million Dollar Extreme's Youtube account got pulled down
awesomeperson replied to gmanyo's topic in General Banter
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I knew from the first kick it wasn't RDJ. This is just another guy trying to bank on Steinvord's fan appeal.
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The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)
awesomeperson replied to Rubin Farr's topic in General Banter
The video-game is a lot better than the show, not only is it better written but the way it plays and how there's a lot of variants makes it really entertaining. -
i dont know anymore, I listened to Go Plastic on a train ride recently and while it is masterful in parts some of it hasn't aged too well. The production/engineering on the album leaves a lot to be desired. Sequencing and arrangement wise it's still one of the best out there, but the way the breaks are eq'd and mixed sounds very thin and sort of light weight compared to Steinvord. If Tom is involved in Steinvord I doubt that he had much to do with the final mix, the breaks are just much more beefy and aurally satisfying sounding. That's just the way he processes breaks, in Hello Everything they're even thinner, I don't think there's any issue with the way the breaks sound in Go Plastic, you might want to check different sources/rips and of course there's only one way to listen to it and that's with headphones, the sound is so 3D and synesthetic. Squarepusher tracks just lack that deep bass, still the drop in Greenways Trajectory is absolutely massive, specially the last part.
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Sick breaks or sick choppage would be more appropriate terms to use here, never heard amenry but that fits VSnares well because his breaks sound cheap and boring. This is different from the typical VS garbage amens. Either way it doesn't change what I said, Go Plastic is miles ahead of anything on the Steinvord EP, it's too timid when it comes to the SP side hence why I think it's just someone emulating him on some tracks but the Aphex side is spot on imo.
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StephenG you can't tell if a track has the amen break, gtfo.
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http://youtu.be/6ddzcYjgNZY?t=3m19s This is what Squarepusher was doing way back in 2000-1, he can do everything imaginable with a couple of breaks and a bunch of samples, nothing in the Steinvord EP is comparable.
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https://soundcloud.com/uncledugs/dugsremarc If you're looking for more Remarc unreleased tunes.
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There's no way that Squarepusher is involved in any of the tracks, the breaks are way too clumsy to be his work.
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Is there any doubt that this isn't 100% RDJ? Even the breaks are programmed in typical Aphex fashion, yes even in Syro. This on the other hand is a lot harder to tell: http://youtu.be/eb2Da2vGEFA?list=PLon73z-YBBS7AGKtHp7AG_OYPN66ez_ZO This could almost be on the Syria album:
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I think it's all RDJ too, he probably got obsessed with Go Plastic.
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Steinvord is the bat-signal for pissflaps, just mention it and here he comes.
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Here you can see footage of his 2000 studio (as well as a photo of his 1995 studio): http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/06/video-premiere-squarepusher-talk
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What about him using a Boss DR-660 as a sequencer when everyone else was using an Atari with Cubase or Notator? Is it hard to believe as well?
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Apparently done by Source Direct but to me sounds like they got a little help from Rupert. [youtubehd]p_G1aiMlO5E[/youtubehd]
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The whole video is hilarious; [youtubehd]1BxRYIoKMJU[/youtubehd]
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Yeah it's very similar to the drop in "my fucking sound". The rooster cowbell is something I could only see RDJ doing, it's those little touches.
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Untitled 9 sounds more AFX than AFX, if it's another clone like that guy that makes Tuss copycats for Rephlex then well done, you're the first person to make a legit Aphex track that could fool the most cynic listener. I was thinking of Photodementia that was one of the new Rephlex guys not Steinvord. I still think it's a "for fun" Squarepusher/AFX collab.
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This seems legit.
