Guest White Mask Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Who knows? ;) I listened to some new stuff in progress in his studio today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Who knows? ;) I listened to some new stuff in progress in his studio today. Niiice. And what about your stuff? That going to surface at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 i picture the studio being a room stacked full of VHS tapes like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest White Mask Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Edit: Chassis wrote: "Niiice. And what about your stuff? That going to surface at all?" Nothing concrete, not really had time to work on stuff recently: my GF had major surgery last month and I'm working 7 days a week at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Sorry to hear man. Hope all gets back on track soon. Chin up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest White Mask Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 i picture the studio being a room stacked full of VHS tapes like this That's pretty much what his front room looks like, his studio is tidier, there's a picture floating around on FB of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 i picture the studio being a room stacked full of VHS tapes like this That's pretty much what his front room looks like, his studio is tidier, there's a picture floating around on FB of it. hahaha i love it when internet preconceptions are confirmed like this. in all fairness i spose it couldn't really be any other way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 that acid line at about 17:30 in the mix is beamed straight from heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Backson Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Edit: Chassis wrote: "Niiice. And what about your stuff? That going to surface at all?" Nothing concrete, not really had time to work on stuff recently: my GF had major surgery last month and I'm working 7 days a week at the moment Sorry to hear about that, hope she's doing okay. I would love to see you and Neil physically release a couple of tracks. Dare I dream of a split EP... I would definitely by that 12" / CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinski Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 :squeeeeeee: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 VHS Head was a good reminder for me to think back when I started to make some tunes years ago. I was using old tapes my mother recorded for me on german television when I was young. They were full of rather happy series about animals and disney-related movies but at some points overwritten by movies she recorded later when the tapes were used for her own videoprogramming. I was recording the bits of the tape who really warbled dued to age and storage (near the tv- no wonder they crippled in quality) but I failed to get interesting things out of it. I wasn't aware of BOC and well, VHS Head not existed at this time. I later messed around with some samples I derived from an old videogame. I stumbled on a recording several months ago and it turned out as a boring ambient monster- you know: one sample and a 5-minute reverb on top Today I use tapes very carefully as a citation. I often get dictaphone tapes from friends I can slaughter for my music which I use as a source material but not only. I'm really into VHS Head. Maybe because we share the same background a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 http://www.infectious.com/laptop-skins/hollisbrownthornton/vhs-heroes/999 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 http://www.infectiou.../vhs-heroes/999 That's funny. Really nice to have that. I try to order it next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dissolvedpaul Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Spent a bit of time with this one again in the last month, Brilliant release deserving of a bump I think. After the amazing "trademark ribbons of gold" I think some of the negative comments towards "Midnight Section" aren't that surprising, music this intense can bring on listening fatigue if over played. I know I had to eventually spend some time away from TROG simply because I was starting to kill it for myself. Anyway, perhaps not as instantly accessable as the last album but has some amazing moments throughout and it does get better on repeated plays. VHS Head just clicks for me, for similar reasons someone else already mentioned. I spent a lot of my early days in music, creating collages and sampling from tape sources, old Pre Cert tapes so I think it was inevtiable his music would appeal. I have a lot of fun trying to sample spot in his music. Noted this one recently. The opening jingle in "Midnight Section" is sampled from the Intro Ident from the UK Video company EIV. It's messed about with throughout but you can hear it at the very start and at 1: 01 to 1: 02 most clearly, repeating through the rest of the track. http://youtu.be/tpM6Z-fal-A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us1N-GlsYZY You'll have to skip past the two trailers to get to the EIV Ident but it starts at about 8.26. I'm also trying to ID the end synth sample on "Death Dimension", From about 3.50 onwards. It's doing my head in because I recognised it instantly but can't quite place it yet. I was sure it was Goblin from the Argento cut of "Dawn of the Dead" but I'm mistaken, it's definitely an Italian horror though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Spent a bit of time with this one again in the last month, Brilliant release deserving of a bump I think. After the amazing "trademark ribbons of gold" I think some of the negative comments towards "Midnight Section" aren't that surprising, music this intense can bring on listening fatigue if over played. I know I had to eventually spend some time away from TROG simply because I was starting to kill it for myself. Anyway, perhaps not as instantly accessable as the last album but has some amazing moments throughout and it does get better on repeated plays. VHS Head just clicks for me, for similar reasons someone else already mentioned. I spent a lot of my early days in music, creating collages and sampling from tape sources, old Pre Cert tapes so I think it was inevtiable his music would appeal. I have a lot of fun trying to sample spot in his music. Noted this one recently. The opening jingle in "Midnight Section" is sampled from the Intro Ident from the UK Video company EIV. It's messed about with throughout but you can hear it at the very start and at 1: 01 to 1: 02 most clearly, repeating through the rest of the track. You'll have to skip past the two trailers to get to the EIV Ident but it starts at about 8.26. I'm also trying to ID the end synth sample on "Death Dimension", From about 3.50 onwards. It's doing my head in because I recognised it instantly but can't quite place it yet. I was sure it was Goblin from the Argento cut of "Dawn of the Dead" but I'm mistaken, it's definitely an Italian horror though. Wow. Did you find that by accident? If not, very good detective work. Good luck finding the Death Dimension sample. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dissolvedpaul Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Wow. Did you find that by accident? If not, very good detective work. Good luck finding the Death Dimension sample. Thanks, I'm hoping it will come to me eventually, It'll be a case of sitting through a few movies I think it could be from but I know it's out there. : ) The midnight section sample: I'm a big film fan, particularly horror films and always had a large VHS collection back in the day. I owned quite a few tapes on that particular label and had the release of "Rosemary's Killer" (Aka The Prowler) which the youtube video is taken from so I was pretty familiar with the Ident. It just dawned on me the other day when I was listening to the EP and I thought, "Surely not", it was literally that little bit of 2 second tone that sparked the memory. So I did the comparison and was happy to see it was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Kris Blacow pointed out a nice Sunset Everett Remix. http://soundcloud.com/azuresunmusic/kold-kold-sun-vhs-head-remix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Isn't that just the same as the original, just resampled at a slower pitch EDIT: Though I do like the time stretched ending section ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Yeah, it's not that amazing but like you, I like the ending minute or so especially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 Isn't that just the same as the original, just resampled at a slower pitch EDIT: Though I do like the time stretched ending section ! hmmm there's other stuff going on in there, some pads with reverb by the sounds of it. gotta say - not liking it. completely detracts from the rawness of the original. each to their own though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmanyo Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I bought this EP right as it came out. Too bad it's just an EP, though. I liked it how it has a different feel, moving more into the Red Lens Effect kind of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmanyo Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 i picture the studio being a room stacked full of VHS tapes like this That's pretty much what his front room looks like, his studio is tidier, there's a picture floating around on FB of it. There's a picture that he posted on FB of it. It's actually pretty organized. He said he has a bunch of synths somewhere that he hasn't touched in ages, and I suggested that he give them to me, but he didn't respond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polymershapes Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 forgive me if this has been posted already, but wow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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