VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

[mcbpete]

Anyone in the UK remember this? Only available if you knew the guy who ran the video shop.

 

http://www.filmsamling.se/instick/Xtro_UK.jpg

According to the BBFC it's been reclassified as an 15 now so it couldn't have been too bad. Looks like an awesome cover though

[Guest disparaissant]

this album just reminds me of a period of a few years when i was a teen, i lived near a video store that had 25 cent VHS rentals (family video! ironically, they had porn!) and they didn't mind that i was underaged and me and my friends would get massively stoned and watch terrible terrible movies all night im a bit younger than you fumi but its the same feeling - i half-recognize TONS of samples and it's just very nice.

[Guest chax]

For all the glitch and whatnot on this album it is remarkably funkless and flat. It's a bad pop album. Never liked the ED Banger label, compressed to high fuck big bass pseudo hipster electro-clash- dance tunes. Never liked the Merck label either, lacked balls, sterile, formulaic , boring IDM sound. I do agree with you that there isn't much coming out these days that reaks of innovation or interesting ideas though hence why I'm becoming less and less keen on current fads and going back to the truly innovational sounds of people like Todd Dockstader, Zoviet France, SPK, artists alot more dynamic with fusing source material (VHS tapes or otherwise) into a musical pallete of commendable genius.

 

i'm sorry to say that this album and type of music is just not for you. i'm sure there are going to be a lot of people who just don't 'get' vhs head, or are turned off by this amazing amount of genius music. i've listened to the entire album probably 10 times now

 

this album just reminds me of a period of a few years when i was a teen, i lived near a video store that had 25 cent VHS rentals (family video! ironically, they had porn!) and they didn't mind that i was underaged and me and my friends would get massively stoned and watch terrible terrible movies all night im a bit younger than you fumi but its the same feeling - i half-recognize TONS of samples and it's just very nice.

 

Yes! same with me, there was a Video Update right by my house that had 47cent VHS movie rentals and i'd rent 6 horror b-movies at a time, lots of memories from that time period

[futureimage]

Too many good new releases

+ Not enough money

= FUCK.

Edited September 1, 2010 by futureimage

[Guest chax]

Too many good new releases

+ Not enough money

= FUCK.

 

pawn your furniture, sell everything you own

Edited September 1, 2010 by chax

[six]

Very cool album, much better than the EP in my opinion, which I wasn't that into. Pretty original stuff, very glitchy at times but there's enough interesting ideas to hold it all together. And I love all the half remembered movie samples. Just finished my first listen, excited to give it another play later now that I'm more familiar.

[Ego]

Like a lot of people here, listened to this maybe 10-15 times. And what a grower it is too. The Murder Cycles is epic! Loads of fantastic tracks really.

[awepittance]

has anybody actually identified any samples yet? I keep thinking i'm hearing hints of things but im not sure

[Ethel]

Completely gave in just couldn't wait for the vinyl to arrive...

No fucks given on not waiting.

[Guest disparaissant]

the vocal sample from "movies that never were" is from this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF1o5iYYB7w&feature=related

as are quite a few of the music samples im sure, that movie is just full of bad music.

 

honestly most of the samples are so fractured i doubt i'll ever get much more than half-recognition out of them, which is actually pretty okay by me.

[Guest disparaissant]

that particular vocal sample is 9 minutes into part 2/10 on youtube.

god what an awful awful turd of a movie. i probably have not seen this since i was like 8 and i should definitely keep it that way.

[sidewinder]

I'm excited to hear this, and that there are so many movie/vocal samples in it. That is what attracted me to artists like Meat Beat Manifesto and Skinny Puppy in the early 90s, and Prefuse 10 years later.

[Guest wake]

Found a picture of Adrian Blacow aka VHS Head.

 

[Guest wake]

And Kris Blacow.

 

 

 

 

 

edit: Wait... is VHS Head Burial?

 

Edited September 2, 2010 by wake

[karmakramer]

HOLY SHIT I JUST CREAMED

[Guest Backson]

Found a picture of Adrian Blacow aka VHS Head.

 

looks like I know who mummbles alot.

 

also, did Jaffa compare this to Ed Banger, Pop music, and hipster electro-clash? WTF? It seems like god decided to balance out all the love for this album in the form of one critic.

[o00o]

I still can't decide weather its awesome or just some sliced shit

[Jaffa]

Found a picture of Adrian Blacow aka VHS Head.

 

looks like I know who mummbles alot.

 

also, did Jaffa compare this to Ed Banger, Pop music, and hipster electro-clash? WTF? It seems like god decided to balance out all the love for this album in the form of one critic.

 

No.

I said it was a bad pop album, it's a novelty record, which it is. I didn't compare it to Ed Banger records. Ed Banger records=Hipster electro clash. Wish people could fucking read. The Ed Banger reference was in response to Awepittance's mention of said label not in regards to VHS Head directly.

Edited September 2, 2010 by Jaffa

[Guest disparaissant]

lol bad pop hahahha

im cool with people having their opinions, but that's just 'tarded.

[Jaffa]

It's the sound of daytime television being assfucked by dblue glitch.

[Guest disparaissant]

It's the sound of daytime television being assfucked by dblue glitch.

i never saw any troma films on daytime television but even so, how does that equate to bad pop?

 

at this point you're just trolling, i think.

[Guest wake]

It's the sound of daytime television being assfucked by dblue glitch.

 

As has been said before by other people, it's not glitch, it's cut up.

[Jaffa]

It's the sound of daytime television being assfucked by dblue glitch.

 

As has been said before by other people, it's not glitch, it's cut up.

 

Lol. Use your ears. The cut ups have glitch wank all over them.

[Guest disparaissant]

fuckin hell guy we get it, it's not your thing. move on already.

[Blir]

Hah! Why is it people who don't like something others like try to be extra loud? As if they feel they have to counter all the praise with a large slice of hate...

 

I'm looking forward to the CD arriving. Hate that Boomkat released it early! Come on Skam!

 

So, it's better than the EP then? I like the EP, nothing special but it's great fun.