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  1. ganus

    Cheetah EP

    Agree with fxbip. Bach comparison seems relevant to me, because Bach was totally groundbreaking in music composition, but he didnt have to continually reinvent the style he created to be an original and meaningful artist... That would be counterproductive. But to create a history of classical music that doesn't cite the I importance of Bach would be to miss a huge piece of the picture. And I think this status is a reason people are so harsh about AFX's music. Folks are expecting to be wowed with genius and guided to the next style, or otherwise looking for justification of the massive hype... all that we find is musician happily perfecting their craft- and a record company playing up the hype to make money. folks need to just chill out and enjoy the music as it comes. And if you dont like it, post about something you do like instead of wasting your breath... metaphorically speaking.
  2. ganus

    Cheetah EP

    Some of Syro's tracks are quite old, and that's only based on when Richard started playing them live - CHEETAH7 is similarly a track created some time ago.Sure, we know 180db is old, and I think a few tracks such as PAPAT could very well have been finished years ago, but my guess is that he was still finishing up XMAS and a few of the other recognizable live tracks in 2010-2014. I have not heard the full 10 minutes of that track in a live recording, but the last chunk of the track has a similar feel to some of the Cirklon/Circlont tracks, which I thought he said in the noizelab interview were recent tracks... What's your source for the age of Cheetah 7? Just curious about the timeline.
  3. ganus

    Cheetah EP

    Don't understand the thought that Cirklon 3 or anything on this EP is "old". Didn't AFX say he had a few tracks he was planning to put on Syro that weren't ready by the deadline? I always assumed this was supposed to be on there, hoping this EP is a follow-up of sorts.
  4. ganus

    Cheetah EP

    Right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw7TY-zPaas
  5. ganus

    Cheetah EP

    Yeah, please don't troll about the video... Dude, I wish I had done anything as good as that when I was 12. Whole thing made me smile, and there were some genuinely awesome moments.
  6. I stopped listening to it as much because it makes me depressed. I appreciate the melancholy in his music, and I love OPN more than most artists, but... It's not a good headspace to dwell in. I do not like the garbled horror vocals or the lyrics. I think a big thing for me is that OPN just looks way worse each time I see him, and the music carries that as well. When I was listening to this album daily or several times a week, I felt unhealthy and felt like I was going down this uncanny rabbit hole with him. I can listen to and enjoy Ezra, Freaky Eyes, and No Good, which I love, or other select tracks, but if I go through the whole thing, I get into that headspace. Electronic music for me is all about emotions and mental states, and this is a harsh one. Feel me?
  7. I think there are downsides to Garden of Delete, and I agree with that review in parts, but how many other currently active avant garde/experimental music artists are there that have as wide of a scope, push boundaries as much, or have as much influence? Dude, after R+7, those sounds he dredged up were popping up in top 40 music and all over the spectrum. His music is always worth digging into, even if you don't love it and treasure it in the long run
  8. Yeah, that's why I think it's not an unlikely release date. It's the perfect way to make it official.
  9. It trips me out this album meshes so many styles together without sounding forced, and also just bizzare as fuck Freaky Eyes sounds like Claude Larson's style at 1:30, and then in the middle there's what sounds like a kanye west sample that morphs into the returnal voice... I just, this album is ??? and I can't share it with anyone, as much as I might like to. It's too far down the rabbit hole Also, anyone recognize the end of Mutant Standard as sounding like the Metz track? Sounded especially so live. Or the phexy synth that's being talkboxed over?
  10. I am enjoying this a lot as an album at least! On the first listen, I was hearing a lot of references, on my second I heard someone trying to make a very modern record. Now I am just digging in and letting it grow on me. I like more than R+7. Just a mention in case people are seeking out music with a similar vibe, Vaervaf is worth checking out. http://vaervaf.bandcamp.com I was listening to "Hearttrip" and GOD back to back all day today, good combo of weird
  11. Yeah, I'm sure balcony would have been a little better. Distance was helpful, I was in the back for a bit and that was better. It was largely just overstimulating, I have been overworked and not getting lots of sleep, and this was absolutely the wrong show. Re: crap 3d visuals; I realize that is the point, but it is very similar to the R+7 visuals, and does not seem to be saying anything new or worthwhile. 5 minutes of a 20 second loop of a weird vacuum cleaner thing behind a poorly rendered couch? All I'm saying is, I've seen way better crap 3d art by basically anonymous people on youtube, not impressed by Nate Boyce, would have enjoyed just lights and background visuals a lot more. Felt like it was trying too hard for sure
  12. I went to the show in Seattle last night. I have not heard the album, as I was hoping to enjoy it live first. Not a fun time! The strobes and the looping video (god dammit, Nate Boyce visuals) and the voice filter were all very unpleasant and distracting. The voice filter was used to tune and morph his voice during a few tracks, and was really well utilized then. However it was kept on the whole show, and for much of the rest of the show, the voice was louder than the track behind it, and was tuned to an horrible vibrating monotone. You know the low pitched growling noises in the end of Sticky Drama, and the processed vocals in the Kaoss Edge demos? That, super loud, through all of I Bite Through It and Sticky Drama, and in the onstage chatter between tracks! The visuals were repetitive, and having large TVs going the whole show was disassociating and obnoxious. Few nice things, mostly ugly 3d crap very similar to R+7. Not really interested in Nate Boyce's art. I had invited a friend and he clearly was very tense and not having a good time, so we hung out in the bar, and I enjoyed the music a lot more from the other room... Just not a happy atmosphere in that show. Fun parts were very quickly eclipsed by painful distorted bits and mid-bass in unpleasant ranges turned up too high. Overall basically the opposite of cathartic, which is why I go to shows I will be happy to listen to the album in safety where I can set the volume and the listening environment
  13. Not to disparage R+7. Lots of good music, and talented artists involved in the promo of that. Just more excited for GOD...
  14. I agree in the marketing part, I think that for this album it became really stupid and "uh su randum" shit, while R+7 was less but better. Disagree... Loptain has been consistent with the themes here, the Sticky Drama video isn't perfect, but it picks up from the cryptic 'story' that was set up with the Ezra livejournal posts, the interviews, the PDF document about Ezra, etc...I'm not going to write an academic post about how the Nickelodeon-style music video connects with the theme of awkward adolescence, but I have been enjoying the lightheartedness and the little easter egg hunts in the promo around this album, and I think OPN has a stronger concept than he did with R+7. I just find it more enjoyable and accessible than what... post-post-modern furniture music in a virtual environment, or whatever that was?
  15. Oh my god, OPN with a budget. Reminds of so many bad Sci-Fi Channel original movies, episodes of Goosebumps... Thanks Warp. Thwarp.
  16. I like the comparison, but I think they are both so different, and so creative, its not worth saying who's better. People who like this album should definitely check out Lauren Bousfield/Neros Day At Disneyland
  17. He will be playing in Seattle w/ James Ferraro close to my birthday and the album's release, so I will wait. Should be fun. Saw R+7 liveset like a year and a half or so after album release, did not do it for me.
  18. Oh wait, I guess all shapes are code. it's just a matter of the way they are generated (gui with underlying code vs. coding directly) and the file format/programming framework, yeah? I don't know anything about doing Phys Mod from code or otherwise engineering it. Kaivo is disappointing so far because the physical models are all preset, don't know how I would modify them
  19. This page is the highlight for me, although I am not actually sure the exact method they use to generate the instruments. Upon reading the site over again, the method they use may be similar to other Phys Mod algorithms (seems like they code the shapes, not based on models?) Anyhow, cool samples: http://www.ness-music.eu/target-systems/modular-environments The one long form piece they have available is good too http://www.ness-music.eu/music/ashes-to-ashes
  20. RE: using 3d models to generate sound, pretty sure it's been possible for a while, they did some of that here with interesting results: http://www.ness-music.eu/overview/physical-modeling-synthesis Good site to explore, although I wish they would share some source code. Shows some interesting possibilities
  21. I tried to download Paul Lansky flacs off of slsk, thanked the person offering the flacs, and computer proceeded to flip out, with peerblock crashing, slsk not responding. Default reaction was to force shutdown. have since been afraid to take it out of safe mode. Garden of Delete as fuck
  22. y'all need to stop bringing OT shit into this thread. Why is derailment the fate of every OPN topic. I just rediscovered my favorite thing from the R+7 thread
  23. I'm into it. OPN getting raw is going to be weird and enjoyable. I love the OPN interview and R+7 review on the KAOSSED blog, the adolescent pictures of him set the tone for this shit lol. All the livejournal style posts are cringy and accurate. Also, is it just me, or does he look a lot like Charlie Day in the promo pic they've been using?
  24. The more I listen to Cheetah3, the more I am into it. Something this has that's missing from Syro, although I can imagine why it wasn't included on Syro, or Cheetah EP (?) Super catchy. The prospect of more new, funky afx is awesome
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