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#1
General Music Talk / Re: What are you listening to?
June 29, 2018, 12:38:03 AM


Godspeed You! Black Emperor has rapidly become my favourite band of all time over these last few months. They are a Canadian post rock collective formed in 1994. This is their only EP, "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada", released in 1999. They've always been a very political band, although their music features no lyrics. Much of what can be interpreted from their music comes from field recordings and voice samples from other media.

The packaging of Slow Riot is very interesting. The band is not referenced anywhere other than the liner notes. The cover features Hebrew text meaning "formless and empty", and the back contains Italian instructions on how to make a Molotov ctail.
Inside the cover, Jer 4:23–27 is written in Hebrew and English.

Slow Riot has two tracks, Moya and Blaise Baily Finnegan III (BBF3). Moya is an instrumental which works mostly to set the "musical context", I guess, for BBF3. It starts with a deep drone, slowly adding more instruments on top of it, and then drops intensity. It rebuilds, and loses it again. The final quarter has it build into somewhat of a march, a call to action, before losing it's power once again as the album transitions into BBF3. Without Moya, BBF3 would lose a lot of its impact.

BBF3 features an interview with a man called Blaise Bailey Finnegan. The interviews have slow and quiet music played over them, weaved in with moments that builds into powerful crescendos with intense violins, and drop as Blaise Bailey begins to speak again. The ramblings of this character mostly have to do with his opinions of America and his problems with the police, government, and judicial system.
"America is a third world country, and people don't recognise it... and I think that that's pretty god damn sad, that they don't recognise their own country as a third world, third rate, third class slum"

The end of the interview features Blaise Bailey reciting a poem which he says he wrote, but is mostly lyrics from the Iron Maiden song "Virus".
After this, another violin crescendo rises, far greater than anything else presented in the album, and to me represents a great deal of agitation, especially given where in the track it is placed. The violin soon drops, and a heavy drum rhythm is played along with a heavily distorted guitar, before introducing the violin again, continuing to build intensity more and more and feeling more and more angry.

The sound once again drops to being slow and hopeless, as BBF3 began.

I obviously can't do this justice writing. The album is far too great to put into words, nor would I have the skill to do so anyways (I'm not a reviewer). But, the only reason I've bothered writing this much is because I want everyone else to listen to it and the rest of GY!BEs discography because they are absolutely amazing.

listen to Slow Riot for Zero Kanada thx

#2
Other / Re: Mass-highlighting vs @everyone
June 14, 2018, 11:20:24 PM
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#3

vv good jam from a shoegaze/math rock band. the whole EP is really good (titled World is Yours)
#4
General Music Talk / Re: What are you listening to?
April 21, 2018, 04:21:45 AM
i've always hated extreme metal but then something happened and for some reason i dig
#5
General Music Talk / Re: What are you listening to?
April 19, 2018, 05:07:30 AM



two favorite albums rn
#6
General Music Talk / Re: What are you listening to?
April 14, 2018, 04:49:02 PM
Going to see Chon, TTNG, Polyphia & tricot in June with a friend. Super excited, absolutely fantastic lineup.






#7
ended up buying the Simgot EN700 Pro, I love them so far :D definitely an upgrade from the cheap sony IEMs I had before
driving them from a Sansa Clip+, might upgrade in the future.

#8
I'm looking for some sub-$200 IEMs that I can wear all day, has detachable cable, and either a neutral or V-shaped sound signature. Right now I'm considering the Pinnacle P1. Any other suggestions?

They'll be driven from an xDuoo x3, so anything with an impedance of up to 100 ohms should be fine. It'd be ideal if I could drive them form my phone or laptop without an amp, though.
#9
Other / Re: TI Nspire SMS Shield
January 29, 2018, 08:54:59 PM
This is really cool. The messaging is fully working, yeah? You should make a demo video for it!

I think someones tried IRC on the nspire before, but it required a separate computer, not just a module stored in the case. I'd like to see this connected to WalrusIRC :walrii:
#10
General Music Talk / Re: What are you listening to?
December 22, 2017, 04:08:17 PM
#11
This game looks pretty spicy - I don't know how I missed this thread when it was posted in March. I look forward to playing it when it's complete :)
#12
General Music Talk / Re: What are you listening to?
August 18, 2017, 04:05:40 AM
my favorite OP from a show ever

audio on youtube is poor but it's on Spotify too, Connect by ClariS
#13
Saw Iron Maiden again, and Metallica a few weeks after
#14
General Music Talk / Re: What are you listening to?
August 11, 2017, 01:26:29 AM
Quote from: _iPhoenix_ on August 01, 2017, 12:47:04 AM
My new song, using new software.
https://soundcloud.com/the-legend-of-iphoenix/energy

Not to mention, That Clip, from That Video.
-snip-[/url]

I opened up this thread and the first thing I saw was That Image, from That Video. This has deeply affected me.
#15
Media Talk / Re: Your favorite YouTube channels
August 09, 2017, 05:02:30 AM
CodysLab - He does a lot of DIY stuff, like beekeeping, playing around with an old mine, and a large scale hydroponics system. I found him through his series where he tried building his own furnace.
[spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_F5jSrd_U[/spoiler]
YouSuckAtCooking - a vv funny cooking channel. I don't quite know how to describe it, but all of its content is insanely creative.
[spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyLncniiJ6Q[/spoiler]
Clickspring - insanely well edited videos about manually creating clockwork related items in his home machine shop. The first series he did was on a clock, now he's working on recreating the Antikythera Mechanism as accurately as he can.
[spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ZGlpDa-0g[/spoiler]
bigclive - The Ashens of Technology. Does lots of teardowns and investigates how all of the crap (and some not-crap) that lands in his hands works. Lots of schematics get drawn.
[spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqJnFhhPAis[/spoiler]
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