I did a search and couldn't believe there was no thread yet.
Alright, so new VSnares, Detrimentalist, is great. We've all established that it's a throwback to his older dnb... and yet it still sounds fresh.
Anyways, not only would I liek to hear some opinions on the new album, but what is your favorite release by Venetian Snares? I'd say my favorite release would be A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine. It may only be one 15 minute track, but everything about the track blows me away (I'm trying to explain why, I put on the track, and it's too overwhelming to actually explain).
My Top 5 Vsnares Releases: 5. Winter in the Belly of a Snake (2002) 4. Moonglow / This Bitter Earth (2004) 3. The Chocolate Wheelchair Album (2003) 2. Doll Doll Doll (2001) 1. Rossz csillag alatt született (2005)
Originally posted by Filmore Mescalito Holmes: My Top 5 Vsnares Releases: 2. Doll Doll Doll (2001)
I fncking love that album!
"Dollmaker" is still my alltime fave track of his. The jazzy intro breaking down into visious rap infused jungle and a hip-hop outro to the answering maching from the Jon Benet Ramsey help line? Insanity.
Originally posted by Filmore Mescalito Holmes: My Top 5 Vsnares Releases: 2. Doll Doll Doll (2001)
I fncking love that album!
"Dollmaker" is still my alltime fave track of his. The jazzy intro breaking down into visious rap infused jungle and a hip-hop outro to the answering maching from the Jon Benet Ramsey help line? Insanity.
Agreed.
"I Rent the Ocean" and "Dollmaker" make a really nice back-to-backer, me thinks.
I haven't responded back because I'm still trying to come up with my list of favorites (Doll Doll Doll, the single track release A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine, Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms, Find Candace (which is one of the most disturbing albums I've heard)... are what I've come up with off the top of my head).
I will say that while it's the most known, Rossz Csillag... is not in my top 5 of his releases (although it would be top 10).
Is it just me, or does VSnares make some of the creepiest shit ever? It either sounds like an alien invasion or a creepy circus or the soundtrack to a futuristic murderer, etc.
I have wet dreams about Aaron Funk doing the soundtrack to some disturbing and incomprehensible Slavic horror movie. It would be in black and white, I think, and there would be no dialog, or at least no subtitles.
Originally posted by odysseyandoracle: I have wet dreams about Aaron Funk doing the soundtrack to some disturbing and incomprehensible Slavic horror movie. It would be in black and white, I think, and there would be no dialog, or at least no subtitles.
Oh god. I'm trying to think of a director but Czech New Wave directors probably wouldn't work... that seriously needs to happen.
I'm surprised he hasn't done any soundtrack work yet. Was anyone else disappointed to find out that My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) wasn't really one?
After I heard My Downfall I was actually quite revealed that it wasn't a real soundtrack. Music of that scale would not actually fit too well into a movie in my opinion. The music would probably take too much attention and the movie would be hard to follow, or the other way around, so that the move takes up too much of your attention to actually focus on the music.
Hard to tell what albums I like best though.. Will have to dwell on it for a while.
Posts: 9 | Location: Norway | Registered: 13 August 2008
I've never listened to any Venetian Snares. Sounds like I should remedy that as soon as possible.
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Posts: 298 | Location: Down the Spirit Hole | Registered: 17 June 2007
Rossz csillag alatt született is my favorite. I haven't heard much of the older stuff, but after My Downfall it seemed like a lot of the beat slicing stuff was getting pretty repetitive/uninventive. Is that true of earlier stuff?
Also check out Bela Bartok's 1st string quartet, 3rd movement. It's hugely sampled on (and really well!) on the track Hajnal, and the original is pretty mind-blowing stuff too.
Posts: 9 | Location: London, England | Registered: 15 October 2008
Detrimentalist was the Metacritic Forum's #95 album of 2008. I think that's the only list it made. Critics these days have no taste. They like what everyone else says is okay to like. As such, every publications' best albums list is the same, and all they suck. Nobody will remember Fleet Foxes and Vampire Weekend in five years.
