[Film Scores]

I'll just post my favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:

 

Another great John Williams OST...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS6JyNQepAQ

 

Music at end of this clip...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE2t6Sg_H74

 

Very 80s stuff:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csk4uHLOD5g

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbtVLJJi2M

 

Good electronic stuff:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIuc1_Qg4A8

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlD-9uwHA40

["Chillwave"]

yeah, you probably made a good choice spore. washed out was alright, small black was meh, every other band was laughable. and the one piece of washed out merch was a tour cd-r EP for ten fucking bucks. ten bucks for a CD-R EP with no fucking cover, just a blank sleeve. pft. the high point of the night was beer.

 

Washed Out is playing with Beach House in Austin, I'm pondering the idea of going. CD-R's are lame...it's kind of shock to me because he's big on selling limited edition cassettes with exclusive tracks, which is at least novel.

 

I would assume most of the main names in the chill wave scene live would suck, since there's very little live instrumentation.This looks boooring.

 

Toro Y Moi looks like dull in general.

 

I read Memory Tapes blows live, watched some video of it and agreed. It was him on guitar, a drummer, and a lot of out of key loops. A good live show is apparently Neon Indian's one undeniable strength, probably since he's an experienced musician and not a bedroom producer.

["Chillwave"]

Geez, I guess I'm lucky in the fact that my fiance shares my appreciation for much of the electronic and IDM music I listen to, or at least tolerates it. She also rather listen to something like Apparat than most of the stuff in this thread.

["Chillwave"]

Chill Murray...genius .

 

 

And just for the record, can we not agree Neon Indian sucks? (or is at least immensely overrated)? I've listened to about everything else supposedly related to, um, the "Chill Murry" scene and I can't figure out why the hell he's the most hyped. (I just read he's opening for Massive Attack, which I kind of find insulting. Like Flashbulb opening for, I dunno, Kraftwerk or something...and no I'm not saying Kraftwerk or Massive Attack are equals, for the record)

["Chillwave"]

Indeed, my sonI don't know if I could compare it to dubstep's current state . I'm able to differentiate between the artist in glo-fi little bit more . Each new glo-fi artist brings their own style to the genre , while most dubstep artist are slowly starting to sound the same . I like dubstep a lot and think within time...it will flush itself out and we'll get good shit ( it happen to dnb...hopefully the same will happen to dubstep )As for scene kids ( or hipsters )...eh...they will be here till the end of time. They're like zombies ( if you hear one banging on your boarded up door...expect a horde to surround your home shortly )

 

It's an apples n' oranges comparison for sure. And yeah, scene kids/hipsters will persist for all time, albeit in new forms. Like Dr. Who or that immortal IDM jellyfish.

 

I'm going to take a bunch of DEVO tracks, run them at 66.6% BPM and wash it in reverb. CAll it "DEVOL" and get huge in the chill-fi scene.

 

lolz, sadly you're probably on to something...

["Chillwave"]

If you listen to releases like that of Tori Y Moi (some I consider one of the best figures of the genre) his latest is really well produced, great use of compression and lots of other higher-end studio techniques. It's no 4-track shit. Like I've said "chill wave" and "glo-fi" are hastily made tags by various selfish hipsters who want to seem like they know what's going on before any one else, when really it's potentially crippling progressive ideas. (last thing we need is hundreds of reiterations of the same thing like all other official genres).

 

Yeah, that's what concerns me. That's why I'm always so skeptical of punk or lo-fi. Bands like Wavves or Vivian Girls for example, people defend the hype by saying there songs are catchy. Well fuck that, so are songs by Nickelback, Ke$ha, and P Diddy, and they aren't doing anything new with novel sounds or musical progession and neither is the average hipster band.

 

Yes, the name is extremely cheesy , BUT...I'm really, really lovin' the sounds. It's by far the best thing to happen to music in quite sometime .

 

I like a lot of it, but I can't say the same, because I was thinking the same thing with dubstep years ago and look what happend there: a made up 'scene' of similar music going from from very exciting to extremely predictable with a few exceptions (thank god for the steadfast experimental and independent-thinking artists).

 

Palomo (Neon Indian) said on pitchfork: "I really hope the medium by which someone writes a song isn't the only thing the song has going for it." Well fuck that, he took a formula, crapped some songs out, and it's likely a ton of copycats will do the same. And I'm sorry, if there is better production out there, I prefer it. It's not snobbery either, doing lo-fi shit on purpose is more pretentious than effort in making something sound good, it's not 1980 anymore.

["Chillwave"]

So, it's also being called, get this, "Glo-fi". I'm coming out of the denial stage with this thing; I heard a Soundpool track and I liked it a little...but the hipster blogs are gonna move on from this thing after a while, who remembers that whole Valerie "dreamwave" thing? lol

 

Here's Simon Reynold's take on it. He hits on something that I thought I'd been enjoying selfishly by myself and that is the straight line that you can draw from Krautrock to New Age (eg: the Innovative Communication label, like you mentioned Software in another thread Glass Plate).

 

edit: apathy for me thank you very much.

 

I'm always interested in Simon Reynold's take on anything, thanks for the link. So the Wire calls it hypnagogic pop and I think hipsterrunoff called it chillwave. I have no idea who added to the pile of shit with the "glo-fi" term. And I will note my use of any term is for discussion purposes only.

["Chillwave"]

Chillwave LOL I've been laughing at this shit for awhile now. The Washed Out song I heard was enjoyable and I'm sure there is some other decent stuff, but come ON! Chillwave? That's ridiculous. It's the sound of Indie rockers discovering Boards of Canada and worshiping Ariel Pink. The Neon Indian I heard was garbo.

 

o jeezboc ripoffs have a genre name now?

 

I'm in agreement about the genre name and supposed scene. It's another example of a genre label which probably started as a smart ass comment amd turned into a destructive template.

 

Personally, I actually like a lot of Memory Tapes/Cassette/whatever because it's in the same vein as BoC without emulating the same method of beat-making or sampling. Like, it touches on the same emotions that BoC does for me, but it's a different musical palette. I don't think it's any of these are really BoC ripoffs.

 

And lastly, I'm relieved at the general dismissal of Neon Indian. Here's why:

 

I've known about him for awhile in the Denton and Austin TX scenes. He's only the most popular (judging that by last.fm) because he was on Jimmy Fallon and NPR. Personally, I think he jumped in on this bandwagon because other projects, Ghosthustler (some cheesy, Nintendo homage 8-bit electro stuff) and VEGA, didn't quite blow up after being buzzed on various sits and blogs. Hell, Ghosthustler literally appeared after this band called dance-punk duo called Ghostland Observatory (of Austin, TX) almost blew up in 2007.

 

I think he's an opportunist; Washed Out and Memory Tapes were bedroom projects that were recorded long before they were properly released in 09, and Neon Indian, with a backing band and all, showed up right after they began getting hyped. Supposedly he's better live...but I think that's irrelevant when every other "chillwave" artist simply sounds better produced.

["Chillwave"]

So this genre/scene has been hyped on all the indie blogs, at mega-music fest SXSW, and seems on the verge of imploding into true fad status or exploding into some shitty dubstep-esque sea of crappy bandwagon artists. It's already have become an in-joke amongst hipsters. Here's a supposed list of chillwave artists. And, even though it's introverted, nostalgic indie pop, they all seem to have themes of beaches, acid, and shitty 80s synth-pop. And some of it just kind of reminds me of Black Moth Super Rainbow...

 

That said I actually like what I've heard so far, with some exceptions. I really like Memory Tapes/Cassette, whose kind of the first guy to get hyped and easily makes the best composed stuff. I've enjoyed what I've heard from Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, and MillionYoung. I don't like Neon Indian for some reason...the tracks are alright but I have a feeling it's a bit forced with the lo-fi sound and that he's the first guy to make stuff to fit the genre.

 

Enough of my ranting though, anyone else here check this stuff out at all? I'm curious what WATMM thinks...

[Ghost Box Subforum]

now you need the advisory circle's other channels and belbury's the owl's map (infinitely superior to from an ancient star imo)

and if you like fucked-up loops, everything the focus group (my favourite gbx) have released

also go read some arthur machen and lovecraft, it helps

You are a wise man

 

Agreed.

[Ghost Box Subforum]

I really dug Belbury Poly's from An Ancient Star. Great label, I read the last book from C.S. Lewis's space trilogy, which has a locale called Belbury, before I started checking it out. Before that I read some pitchfork review about the Ghost Box compilation.

[video game music thread]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM3MwpkVYKQ&feature=PlayList&p=8C524D44E4CD9203&index=0

 

Great game and great OST.

[Worst songs ever..]

Any Will.i.am.

[post pics of your cat(s)]

[post pics of your cat(s)]

[A Bad Plus cover of "Flim"]

It was the use of "kinda" that killed me.

[The Aphex Twin Music on TV]

A Top Gear Episode 2 weeks ago featured the beginning of Windowlicker while they were showcasing some new Aston Martin GT car. You'd think they could use a more recent song. I know I shouldn't of expected another song, but any analord or tuss song would of been cool. Damn production crew.