Cool Songs

[andrewwerdna]

Broaching this subject of dreams, he becomes animated and talks a long streak. "This album is really specific," he says, "because 70 percent of it is done from lucid dreaming... To have lucid dreams is to be conscious of being in a dream state, even to be capable of directing the action while still in a dream. I've been able to do it since I was little," Richard explains. "I taught myself how to do it and it's my most precious thing. Through the years, I've done everything that you can do, including talking and shagging with anyone you feel that takes your fancy."...

"About a year and a half ago," he says, "I badly wanted to dream tracks. Like imagine I'm in the studio and write a track in my sleep, wake up and then write it in the real world with real instruments. I couldn't do it at first. The main problem was just remembering it. Melodies were easy to remember. I'd go to sleep in my studio. I'd go to sleep for ten minutes and write three tracks - only small segments, not l00 percent finished tracks. I'd wake up and I'd only been asleep for ten minutes. That's quite mental.

"I vary the way I do it, dreaming either I'm in my studio, entirely the way it is, or all kinds of variations. The hardest thing is getting the sounds the same. It's never the same. It doesn't really come close to it. When you have a nightmare or a weird dream, you wake up and tell someone about it and it sounds really shit. It's the same for sounds, roughly. When I imagine sounds, they are in dream form. As you get better at doing it, you can get closer and closer to the actual sounds. But that's only 70 percent of it."

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[kaptaincarbon]

I was not a fan of the second album nor the idea of Zak De La Rocha being a guest on a song but this whole album is similar to the first which is really fun hip hop that seems to be accessible to even non hip hop fans since it harkens back to the in your face style of 90's hip hop. I think aside from metal and electronic music, hip hop is one that I am fascinated with since it was always a mystery to me for the longest time. That second track with Danny Brown is hot just because anything with Danny Brown is an instant party. 

[andrewwerdna]

These Run the Jewels tracks are pretty cool. I knew it was only a matter of time before rap made it's way into this thread, but I wasn't expecting it this soon. I don't listen to much rap, but I can appreciate it at times (smoking certainly helps).

[Ananoriel]

I am into a Wardruna period again.

[thekeeper]

Under-rated martial ambient (popular in the capacity that it can be, I guess, but still...)

[andrewwerdna]

I've heard the name Wardruna a bunch but never listened, but I clearly need to change that because this UruR track is great.

Exode: interesting, not my cup of tea. Whatever that is on the cover is cool. Imagine if something like that came with the album, haha. You'd be cursed until the end of your days.

[thekeeper]

Dec 31, 2016 7:07:30 GMT -5 andrewwerdna said:

Exode: interesting, not my cup of tea. Whatever that is on the cover is cool. Imagine if something like that came with the album, haha. You'd be cursed until the end of your days.

It did, actually, now referred to as the 'coffin box'. Includes some weird French card things (almost like travel documents) and wheat. Goes for a ton of money now. Exode is a weird track, darkest on the album. Other tracks are a little different. Worth checking out.

[naeron]

Hiroshi Yoshimura — Water Copy
from Music for Nine Postcards


The Fourth-World Japan scene is special to me like DS for similar reasons. Some aesthetic cohesion between artists, but all attempts to create an otherworldly, meditative space. Not much unlike DS.

[andrewwerdna]

I like this, nice and relaxing. But what is the "Fourth-World Japan scene?"

Dec 31, 2016 13:16:25 GMT -5 thekeeper said:

Dec 31, 2016 7:07:30 GMT -5 andrewwerdna said:

Exode: interesting, not my cup of tea. Whatever that is on the cover is cool. Imagine if something like that came with the album, haha. You'd be cursed until the end of your days.

It did, actually, now referred to as the 'coffin box'. Includes some weird French card things (almost like travel documents) and wheat. Goes for a ton of money now. Exode is a weird track, darkest on the album. Other tracks are a little different. Worth checking out.

Really? That's awesome. Music memorabilia isn't much of an interest of mine these days, but I would definitely make something like that a very visible decoration. Were you able to get one before it became too expensive?

[nahadoth]

Dec 29, 2016 22:34:25 GMT -5 kaptaincarbon said:

I was not a fan of the second album nor the idea of Zak De La Rocha being a guest on a song but this whole album is similar to the first which is really fun hip hop that seems to be accessible to even non hip hop fans since it harkens back to the in your face style of 90's hip hop. I think aside from metal and electronic music, hip hop is one that I am fascinated with since it was always a mystery to me for the longest time. 

 If you like 90's hip hop, Definitely check out the new Tribe Called Quest album - their first in almost 20 years. It's extraordinary.

[andrewwerdna]

Here's an interesting little oddity, which might even count as dungeon synth in a loose way. The image on the video and the video description are incorrect, it wasn't actually on the Devil's Songs EP but a Cold Meat Industry compilation called The Absolute Supper, released in 1998.

[naeron]

Jan 1, 2017 7:13:39 GMT -5 andrewwerdna said:

I like this, nice and relaxing. But what is the "Fourth-World Japan scene?"

Here's a good collage + explanation:

rateyourmusic.com/list/hovering/fourth-world-japan/

Spencer Doran compiled a great mix for root strata with some of the best:

rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=3706

[andrewwerdna]

Sounds interesting.