Have some music

[petronia]

Been remiss on the mp3 front. Also the blogging front. Throw in the commenting front while you're at it.

Some days ago I promised still_circee goth/rave club music over on bb_shousetsu. This post isn't... precisely... it, but close. XD

Superpitcher - Baby's On Fire (Westbam Remix): electrohouse Eno cover, repost for jokersama. There are a number of mixes but this one is the best.

William Orbit - Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante Défunte (Single Version Edit): posted the rave-y Ferry Corsten remix some time ago. This is the mid-tempo original for reference, single edit because it really doesn't need to run longer than 3:20. XD Sounds like "pleasant afternoon in the park" anime/drama BGM.

Three Imaginary Boys - Nobody's Sayin' (Original Mix): does anyone else have these moments where you realise Nobuo Uematsu has ruined entire chords for you...? This is pretty recent IIRC; am glad this sort of Erlend Oye/Kelley Polar/Junior Boys-grafted-onto-Jori Hulkkonnen emodisco is still being made, since I love it and all.

Lawrence - Along the Wire (Superpitcher Remix) (15MB): "Is it... by any chance... microtrance?"

...Actually if anything qualifies as such this track should. The buildups and breakdowns of "proper" trance has always reminded me of jeux d'eau, tall white fountain plumes and spraying jets and coloured lights; this is analogous but more intimate, streams of air bubbles tumbling upward in a column of water (as Cis said). Plus it passes my heuristic test for minimalism as ideology, i.e. at first it seems like nothing is happening but the more you play it the more subtly epic it sounds, until everything else jars by its hamfisted brashness. I love it to pieces. XD

Somewhere on carnet I wrote that if Chopin were alive today he'd be making techno. [1] This is hyperbole but I do think Lawrence, Superpitcher, etc. fall temperamentally within a certain tradition of... sad European night music?... of which Chopin is the patron saint. Chopin didn't compose symphonies, he wrote self-contained melodies with arpeggiated basslines and way-high treble. When I try to imagine quote playing unquote "Along the Wire" I get a distinct sense memory of spreading hands over the keyboard, trying to get octave jumps in.

ACIDMAN - Sekitou: Japanese rock, not too heavy, fairly poppy. ...When asked to talk about rock precision straightaway deserts me, and most of you probably have this besides. Which doesn't change the fact that I really like it. XD It's not a groundbreaking sound but I honestly can't think of any reference to situate it other than The Yellow Monkey, of whom I've always been fond.

Caetano Veloso - Michelangelo Antonioni: the ending theme to Eros, that short film triple-bill with Soderbergh and Wong Kar Wai. Halfway through the credits roll I realised I knew and had the song, which as noted is actually about Antonioni - a sort of word-sketch of his films, in Italian.

Visione del silenzio
Angolo vuoto
Pagina senza parole
Una lettera scritta sopra un viso
Di pietra e vapore
Amore
Inutile finestra


[1] FRANZ LISZT'S HAIRCUT IS THE SYMBOL OF EVERYTHING WRONG WITH DANCE MUSIC TODAY

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In other news, I've finally caught up with Ouran High School Host Club! Except for how I'm not, still have eps 18-19 to go. XD

Comments

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the downloads! Music from your end is always welcome. X3

Ouran Host Club is the kind of series one watches in order to set the world right again. Look forward to 18-19.