The current state of metal

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[!--QuoteBegin-KRS+Aug 18 2002, 08:26 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(KRS @ Aug 18 2002, 08:26 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]I mostly listen to Heavy Metal, Trash Metal and other melodic metal. Some hardrock. And some electronic stuff.[/quote]
I tried to listen some electronic stuff but honestly I failed, I don't like it at all.

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I mean electronic stuff like Drum 'n' Bass and Jungle, and breakbeats and some techno. Not Popol Vul stuff!!
 
I don't really class drum 'n' as electronic, as drum 'n' bass is 19th century gospel music sped up. All the drum 'n' bass samples were made on normal instruments, and later altered via the electronic styles, unless you include the crap 1995-2000 period, when it was all created on computers and drum machines.

Popol Vou and Tangerine Dream are, on the whole, 100% original electronic music, originally played on synths such as the VSC 3 (1973) and the Moog (1971) and several early keyboards and pianos with built in effects. All the music is played by three people, the main one being Edgar Froese, who plays every instrument you can imagine.

I think I'll shut up now.
 
Well. I listen to the 'crap' drum 'n' bass, made with drummachines and computers. Ganja Kru, Future Cut, Goldie and stuff like that.
 
I find that stuff too soft. The bass annoys me a bit in that as well. I like the stuff done on vinyl to vinyl. Some computer stuff is good (Squarepusher if you can class that as music) but on the whole, I just can't enjoy the computer stuff.

The best beats are those which were manipulated on the late 1980's drum machines used by KLF, Prodigy, Orb, Orbital and several others. All the most famous beats were made on it (the most famous being the 1920s Amen break). These were pressed onto vinyl, sent out to DJs and messed with. This was back in 1989, and this was mostly carried on until 1994, when this style of music died. The computers pretty much killed the music scene. Just my opinion.
 
I'm not really in to the experimental stuff like Squarepusher. Although I find Big Loads a very good song. Drum 'n' Bass just needs a good bass line, deep bass, and uplifting beats.
 
I know where you're coming from. I don't like the stuff with that stupid quacking noise over it, and I don't like that stupid bassline that a lot of recent tunes have. I like the music dark, scary, moving and with talent.
 
Come on man. That track 'My Fuckin Sound' it's cool. But you don't need to have talent to make something like that.
 
I think you do to an extent. Every single sample on that is about 1-2 seconds long, and he's put every single one down individually, and structured it well. Few samples appear more than once. It may not be talent as some see it, but there's many 12\" singles out there which are nothing but a 10 second beat with a stupid quacking melody and bass over it looped for 4 minutes. That, as I see it, is not talent.
 
You're right, there's a lot of crap like that nowadays. But there's still some good drum 'n' bass, and not all the drummachine/computer made d'n'b is bad. But there's totally no structure in tracks as My Fucking Sound. Dance tracks need that, you've got to be able to dance on it. To play it in a disco. That's where it's made for.
 
I can totally see where you're coming from, but I think Squarepusher is designed to be impossible to dance to. It's the old argument \"What do you call this if it isn't it?\" A clear example is Lois Bounel taking a urinal, signing it and putting it in an art exhibition. It's in the gallery, but if it's not art, what is it? SP is the same. He's putting random beeps together for 7 minutes and saying \"If it isn't music, what is it?\"

I think good drum 'n' bass has to be danced to, but some music is impossible to dance to. Try dancing to Kid Koala's Nerdball, where he does 4 scratches a second. Some stuff is impossible to dance to, and it's good to listen to it every so often (or put it on when people are drunk to watch them trying to dance to it)

On the whole, I agree with you, but there is a structure on My Fuckin Sound. But it's very hard to notice.
 
Alright, settled. [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
We're discussing Drum 'n' Bass in a topic called The current state of metal, but that's OK I guess. [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]

Anyway, I'm searching for music from the movie The Piano now, it's a bit folkish, what you hear when they walk over the beach. Would you by any chance know the name?
 
I don't know, I saw this movie this night, The Piano, and it has a very good soundtrack. I already downloaded the theme song. But I'm actually searching for a kind of folky thing, which you also hear in that movie. But I can't find it!
 
I recon coyte ugly would have a good soundtrark

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT FOR?
 
[!--QuoteBegin-The Ancient Mariner+Aug 18 2002, 11:57 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(The Ancient Mariner @ Aug 18 2002, 11:57 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]The best soundtrack album ever is "Trumpton Songs"[/quote]
best sound track is

The Last of The Mohicans and

The Rock
 
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