Nathan Michel's "The Beast"

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Is it just me, or is this some new kind of music that simply hasn't been put forth before?

Brilliant Jon Brion/Jim O'Rourke takes on Bacharach/Van Dyke Parks ornate pop filtered through Max/MSP.

And I've been lead to believe Michel played virtually every instrument. The melodies, arrangements and sonic fuckery are unbounded!

What says other listeners?

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

great record! check out "the dirty projectors" if you like nathan michel!

― NeilsCorgahessen, Friday, 7 October 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

This is a really brilliant record. "Status Dive"- what a tune!

I liked "Dear Bicycle" but this just surpasses it.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

If you like Nathan, you might like Nathan's taste.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah this is really great

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Nathan's music is outstanding...The Beast is one of the greatest records of the last few years...no question.

― bobby lasers, Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

i second/third/etc this record. its great. nathan is awesome, too.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

max... tundra

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

does he have a new record out? what has he done since "Mixed by Guy at the exchange"?

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

oh I'm not sure about max tundra... I was just making a flippant comparison. in spots this record reminds me of max tundra, jim o'rourke, the badlands OST, and lots of other max msp style avant pop.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Max Tundra was all good and well, but he doesn't have a shred of the musical invention or melodic flair that Nathan Michel is exhibiting on this here "The Beast".

The more I listen to it, the more I get really excited by the Robert Wyatt influence and the completely bizarre odd-time signatures and clattery percussion.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

what the hell happened to nathan michel?

he was cute and made great music!!

― czn, Thursday, 8 May 2008 08:20 (seventeen years ago)

no one cares : (

― czn, Thursday, 8 May 2008 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

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