personal rediscovery of the year (sounds division)

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more inspired by mitch's thread than michaelangelos (sorry buddy), but...

what sounds did you rediscover (or discover for the first time) this year that you became obsessed with, were among yr favorites, made you think about things in new ways?

― jess, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fr instance, mine: the clipped and shuffling snare patterns in the first minute of dj dms' remix of acen's evergreen "window in the sky." it probably dates from 93 or 94, but it IS breakbeat garage ala stanton warriors, etc.

(musical highlight of year was discovering the acen album in a used bin in philly for three bucks after FOUR YEARS of searching for it.)

― jess, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

joan of arc's live in chicago blew me away last week...it was a nice feeling.

― Geoff, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Reich "Four Organs", The Cars first LP, The Story of the Clash.

― Gage-o, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sounds people. we're talking SOUNDS here. bits and pieces of songs or records. take yr albums over to matos' thread lest he becomes sad. ;)

― jess, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone else think Donnacha Costello's "ri2.2" is the best song on clicks+cuts 2, and even one of the best songs of the year? It's just one big long sound, and almost all the music I've tried to make since I've heard it has been a sad attempt to recapture it.

― Keiko, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the mysterious billowing, burbling at the start of piano magic's 'for engineers aa', and then the weird rumble and clanking noises which make it sound like you're trapped in some huge steam-powered mechanised monstrosity.

― clive, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shuggie Otis and Neil Young.

― helen, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never mind Shuggie, that was just a discovery. Neil Young I re-discovered. FIrst thought he was crapola, then realized he's more than a whiner. heh!

― helen, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rediscovered how much Kid Dynamite kicks my butt.

2001 is the year i discovered the mass amounts of electronic music. favs being MoM, Fennesz, yar yar.

― Brock K., Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

23 Skidoo 'Seven Songs', a cheap vinyl copy found in a second-hand store around the time the CD reissues were getting props. Dark percussive funk, thick bass, space, found sounds. Eerie, very beautiful and quite unlike anything I've heard before. Must pick up 'Urban Gamelan'.

― stevo, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ben Folds and Stephen Merritt . Odetta and Joan Baez.

― anthony, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ah, the sound of ILM not paying attention..

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How long can the sound be and still count as just a "sound"?

― DeRayMi, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I listened to a bunch of new-to-me electronica this summer and I had an MRI in October. I thought some of the sounds during the MRI were more interesting than of the electronica recordings I heard this summer. My favorite were these slow-paced sounds in the MRI which reminded me of Japanese music, or made me think of some sort of slow moving Japanese zen samurai ritual. There was also a loud science ficition laser attack sound.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"How long can the sound be and still count as just a "sound"? "

--I think about 250milliseconds, depending on the ADSR of the sound. ba dumdum

― Gage-o, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the second song on 'Endless Summer', when the higher glitches drop out, leaving the heart-tugging bed of lower bleeps and bloops below... wondrous!

― Clarke B., Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, well, Jess, in a sense it is a different thread than mine...what with the "re" in front of "discovery" and all....

― M. Matos, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

goddamn it! it's not my fault people can't seem to fucking read around here! bah!

12:12 am. merry xmas all.

― jess, Tuesday, 25 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

[With apologies if this has already gone through - my computer's a bit odd]. A Certain Ratio sound fresher than ever. Also, King Sunny Ade's Synchro System came into my life again, many years after I had lost my tape copy. Sweeeeeeeeet!

― Daniel, Tuesday, 25 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

erm, yeah, sorry about that. Happy Christmas everyone.

― stevo, Tuesday, 25 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the way the banjo sounds in Neil Young's "For the Turnstiles". It's the gloomiest banjo I've ever heard. I rediscover the breaking glass in C-Bank's "One More Shot" every year. Are there any other records that feature broken glass percussion so prominently?

The sound of someone yelling "remix" in a remix really annoyed me this year. Is this so commonplace that it's not really annoying to everyone else? And I just never noticed it before?

This question is too hard, Jess. I'm sure I'll think of something else when I'm back in

― Xmas Dum Dum in CT, Tuesday, 25 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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