Wow, it doesn't get more underground than this. Some impressive stuff happening on this album for 1994. Orko the Psykotik Alien makes another appearance as well. And I got to hear another use of one of the most sampled songs in hip hop.
Thanks for visiting Rocka's sample corner once again.
Vlad Tepes / Belkètre – March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
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Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Jason Lescalleet- The Pilgrim
David Shea - Satyricon
The Last Emperor - The Legend of Bigfoot
Nate Young - Regression Vol. 3 (Other Days)
Darc Mind - Symptomatic Of A Greater Ill
Ojas - The Trance Tape
Karin Krog- Joy
While I do enjoy the Gymnopédies, the rest of the pieces that follow on the Gymnopédies side of the disc, I found to be a little too faint-hearted. That's a first listen, a lot of really gentle music can take some time to stick with me. I was kinda tapping my fingers waiting for them to pass. I don't know what the general consensus is, but the Gnossiennes, to me, are absolutely the superior works here. His use of free time is an astoundingly wonderful dynamic, and especially for pieces that are as memorably melodic and as consonant as they are. I can't think of any other works of music quite like them.
Rogé's playing is masterful. I've known these Satie pieces for a long time (the three Gymnopédies and the first three Gnossiennes, anyways), but I've never gotten around to properly sifting through all the various performers in order to find my favorite. I don't know that his performance of the Gymnopédies is much better than what I'm used to hearing (they're definitely not worse, either), but his interpretation of the Gnossiennes is flawless. I can recall times in the past wanting to listen to the Gnossiennes and going through one recording after another until I found one that worked for me. I didn't pay any attention to who the performer was back then, so it's possible it was Rogé I settled on. I'm not going to crown Rogé just yet, but even if I don't ever get around to making any attempts to look for better performances, I think I'll be alright. I'm gonna have to check out his DeBussy, as well.
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Tha1ChiefRocka's 57 Greatest Music Albums
3. Krzysztof Penderecki: St Luke Passion // Krzysztof Penderecki / National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Warsaw National Philharmonic Chorus
4. Krenek: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae // Marcus Creed / RIAS Kammerchor
5. Canto Ostinato // Simeon Ten Holt
7. Lisbon // Keith Fullerton Whitman
9. Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks // Scion
10. Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo // Jeff Mills
15. Zwölftonspiele // Josef Matthias Hauer / Ensemble Avantgarde
16. 6 // Supersilent
17. Berg: Wozzeck // Christoph Von Dohnányi / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus
18. See It Another Way // Macha
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
Short, fast, loud. 23 songs in 21 minutes! Still this album didn't feel short. I appreciate the experimental sound but it really wasn't a pleasant listen. His voice is a high pitched annoyance with unintelligible lyrics. So as interesting as the song titles are they mean nothing to me in the end. Although it is a well titled band and album. The combination of the trebly synth noises, with it's clicks and whirrs, and the screeching vocals did bring to mind what I imagine the amplified sound of a plague of insects hellbent on destruction might sound like. So it was a unique listen, but a bit samey overall, and really not that enjoyable. 6/10, and 33/35 for 2003.
Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by Tha1ChiefRocka (3 picks)
2. Women by Women
3. Black Eyes by Black Eyes
6. Miss Machine by The Dillinger Escape Plan
7. Drum's Not Dead by Liars
9. The Egg by Shiner
10. Wilderness by Wilderness
11. Freedom's Just Another Word For Never Getting Paid by Gravitar
12. Let's Stay Friend by Les Savy Fav
13. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill by Grouper
15. A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure by Matmos
I like this a great deal, it's like a blend of the Neoclassical Darkwave bands and the more industrial sounding & militaristic stuff of that Alberich album I listened to. It's got atmosphere to spare, and sometimes, that's all I'm really looking for. Sounds like it could be a soundtrack to a darker and less heroic Call of Duty game.
Haha, that' all fair Purple. The band some of the members of The Locust are a part of, "Cattle Decapitation", is even more insane, if you can believe that.
I don't ever get to recommend something from my hometown, so listen to Shiner. They're from Kansas City!
Vlad Tepes / Belkètre – March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Jason Lescalleet- The Pilgrim
David Shea - Satyricon
The Last Emperor - The Legend of Bigfoot
Nate Young - Regression Vol. 3 (Other Days)
Darc Mind - Symptomatic Of A Greater Ill
Ojas - The Trance Tape
Karin Krog- Joy
Blaine L Reninger- Broken Fingers
A solid post-hardcore album with some math rock influences that help keep it interesting.. I really liked the vocalist's authentic, raw, post-grunge type vocals, but ironically I really dug the instrumental. Not a bad song on here, just enough variety while keeping it's sound throughout, and I love a great album closer like Stoned here. A high 7.5/10 and 29/46 for 2001.
Rocka: Blaine L Reninger- Broken Fingers
Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by Tha1ChiefRocka (2 picks)
2. Women by Women
3. Black Eyes by Black Eyes
6. Miss Machine by The Dillinger Escape Plan
7. Drum's Not Dead by Liars
10. Wilderness by Wilderness
11. Freedom's Just Another Word For Never Getting Paid by Gravitar
12. Let's Stay Friend by Les Savy Fav
13. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill by Grouper
15. A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure by Matmos
16. The Obliterati by Mission Of Burma
This was a pretty big change-up from the rest of your chart, Chief, but I guess it does have the same experimental spirit. The gamelan instrumentation is an interesting choice, but I'm gonna say that they missed an opportunity to do something a bit more innovative, like channelling Sonic Youth and tuning their guitars scordatura. They seem to have kept the gamelan slendro or pelog tuning system for the gamelan instruments, but their guitars are tuned standard? But, it's still a pretty cool album. "Until Your Temples Are Pounding" is a killer romp that reminded me of (the much more recent) "Flying Microtonal Banana", "The Nipplegong" is a really nice Pumpkin-esque tune, "Mirrors" is a sweet folksy ballad, and "Between Stranded Sonars" is a nice bit of post-rock texture. The variety is certainly laudable.
3. Krzysztof Penderecki: St Luke Passion // Krzysztof Penderecki / National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Warsaw National Philharmonic Chorus
4. Krenek: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae // Marcus Creed / RIAS Kammerchor
5. Canto Ostinato // Simeon Ten Holt
7. Lisbon // Keith Fullerton Whitman
9. Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks // Scion
10. Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo // Jeff Mills
15. Zwölftonspiele // Josef Matthias Hauer / Ensemble Avantgarde
16. 6 // Supersilent
17. Berg: Wozzeck // Christoph Von Dohnányi / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus
19. Colored Music // Colored Music
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