murcof

its lovely.

Much respect for Track 6 though. The chord/mood change at ~1:00 is one of the most amazing moments in electronica.

thoughts, listening critically for the first time in a while: he's not adventurous enough. There's one sound which starts as a little blippy popping noise and spins up granular-synthesis-fashion until it becomes a solid tone, then tails off as two short tones spaced two beats apart... the rhythm of the tail-off blips is too mundane. If I was writing this track I'd do more interesting things with them.

i quite like murcof, though i think he needs to push his style forward on the next release. fax, similarly, is doing almost-great stuff, but relies too much on the pinging pads. he needs to get out of the mono-chromatic, mono-harmonic trap.

the sutekh remix of murcof's "utopia" is one of my favorite tracks of the year.

http://www.posteverything.com/2005/09/15/11228/bay47cd_328.jpg

Question: does Murcof have a Cunning Plan? He started with song titles beginning with 'm' and has now just got to 'c' with the last track on Remembranza. Is he going to retire once he exhausts 'f'?

What IS good, as in really, REALLY good, is this mix.

cosmos?

I'm listening to "Cosmos II" from Cosmos and having very strong Blade Runner flashbacks. A coupla things on it are kinda cheesy (e.g. the bits that sound like an operatic soprano on the first track), but this album seems somewhat slept on, no?

Yes!

Also, the anal retentive in me is happy that the Cunning Plan is still on track.

anyone else seeing him in bristol planetarium come june?

bought cosmos on the strength of his mix for MAH that was replayed as part of her christmas show (and which i only got around to listening to around april)

is here (along with 6 of her other fave mixes of 2007, all rather good...):
http://core.thomaslaupstad.com/mary-anne-hobbs-experimental-2007-12-19-christmas-special-favorite-mixes-and-live-sets/

cosmos a lot quieter than i was expecting, barely anything there at times.

I saw him play most of 'cosmos' live at last year's SF Electronic Music Festival, and the dynamic range was very wide -- most of the piece, whisperingly quiet, then a long long build to a staggeringly huge, blazing suspended major chord roar. as noted above, harkening more towards Vangelis & 70's space than Feldman / Arvo Pärt loops.

the CD still has that sense of range, but I'll never forget that concert.

I keep waiting for him to merge projects, an album that managed to combine Terrestre & Murcof pieces would be tricky to pull off, but if he could do it, it'd be something

Ha, I was hoping to bump this out of nowhere, but it seems like I wasn't the only one. Had "Cosmos" since January and it's a fucking monster, one of the massiest albums I've heard in a long time.

Special shout-out to the closing track, "Oort": it's without doubt the most terrifying song to listen to while falling asleep I think anyone's ever devised. Turn it all the way up and see what I'm talking about. Dreamy, foreboding drifty outer-space bleeps, and then SHIT your heart-rate trebles, you sweat buckets and you cling to the pillow for dear life. Honestly, just like that.

Hey everybody, it's the MURCOF TERROR CHALLENGE!

The challenge is thus:

Listen to the song 'Oort' alone, on headphones, in the dark, without freaking out.

You Will Fail!

DARE you subject yourself to

the MURCOF TERROR CHALLENGE?

How is La Sangre Illuminada?