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Post by XTRProf on Nov 13, 2012 15:25:15 GMT
Ah, yes, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist turning to abstract synth music ......... I think it's a nice mistake ................ The only song I like from his new album. The full album sampling here: Well, have to have new challenges for him as the rest as usual. What will Ian think of his latest synth effort as he is also into synth?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2012 16:38:47 GMT
I was pointed towards this a while ago after a conversation about the RHCP and their solo projects.
One of Johns that is OK is "Shadows Collide With People".
This new one is deffo not for me. At it's best moments, IMHO, it sounds a little like early The Prodigy but has a terribly old-hat feel and naff SQ.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2012 20:45:25 GMT
I'm afraid I find it a bit boring as well. It's trying to be kind of avant garde and in places, it reminds me of some early King Crimson. (I think it's the Lizard period) Basically, it has lots of rhythms and sequences joined together with live stuff dubbed on top. There's some polyrhythmic stuff going on I suppose where different machines/players are playing in different times at the same time but the sounds on the synth are real retro type sounds. Quite crude and remind me of the techno freaks who get old Game Boys to make noises and pretend that they're musicians playing modern music. For me, it's ice cold and is a dangerous area for music to go since many will be attracted to its mechanical nature and sense of 'perfectness' with the flawed performers overdubbed. I can't really get on with it. It's ok I suppose. For seuencing and pattern manipulation, King Crimson did a wonderful job with 'Discpline' and 'Indiscipline'. One song I remember very well was to do with someone's obsession with something and I remember John Peel introducing it when they played it live on TV. I love that period of King Crimson with the use of the bass stick and Frippy getting into his incessant patterns which he never stopped doing after that. For me, this album is a bit strange!! My guess it's also very easy to compose and perform to be honest. Basically write something and then add wrong notes that blatantly clash in the name of modernism. The only thing that's regular is the phrasing and I absolutely HATE the rapping on 'Ratiug'. Yuk.
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Post by XTRProf on Nov 15, 2012 15:59:09 GMT
, so I'm not indifferent from you guys. Overall, I don't like the album except the Mistakes! But I have to agree that's a nice mistake .............. Sometimes, I just don't know why artistes change, for the sake of so call new directions and challenges, until it's a PITA to listen to their new songs when they already have very successfull formulae. Argghhh, Norah Jones. Now Diana Krall slowly sexying away. Don't need to mention Sade, Depeche Mode and some of Miles Davis. Yeah, even Tom Jones and Laura Fygi! Heh, heh, heh, don't forget Paul McCartney's latest venture! But Paul is still not too bad. Luckily at the end of all this, we still have good musicians like OMD which still composes based on good '80s sound. Good sound is just good sound. There is just no denying that!
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