progressive wrote: New album, "Hurry Up Harry" Free download here: http://www.last.fm/music/Hox+Vox/Hurry+Up+Harry It has some break beat and hip-hop (like "Montego Bay") elements and I think they're very nice. Some people say they are too aggressive genres. But this isn't, and it's binded to that light experimental electronic soundscaping. Also Shpongle comes to my mind (Enchilada Layover). Jazz-fussyon bassing also here and there nicely. "Rusty Nail" is very comfortable song. This album is full of "easy" music. It's a bit like Finnegans Wake's muzak. Nice "rockers", and I like it that tracks are short and continuing to next tracks. The album is some kind of symphony. Also _Harry_ Partch's "Delusion of the Fury" comes to my mind. PS It's strange that almost all the songs aren clocking :00 o'clocks. In this case, album's concept is that songs are little pieces, and it's and working well. But I'm still waiting for bigger pieces. Maybe also more "distortion" and acoustic feel noises, because the music is concentrating much on atmosphere. Also, I have to say that I don't like the instrument that starts at 0:23 in "Cruisin' in El Monte", though it's widely used in Hox Vox's music. My favourites are the songs I mentioned plus "Sabre" and "Chase in Downtown".   - Roni Kantola (http://last.fm/user/Fastro)

Oh finally I hear you satisfied, still I'm by your very cruel votes and comments on RYM, especially about Das Chamaleon.
Well, I appreciate more a hard criticism than a false compliment.
...of course a sincere compliment is well accepted... I'm not masochist!


Edited by Hox - December 21 2009 at 11:42

New album, "Hurry Up Harry"
Free download here: http://www.last.fm/music/Hox+Vox/Hurry+Up+Harry



It has some break beat and hip-hop (like "Montego Bay") elements and I think they're very nice. Some people say they are too aggressive genres. But this isn't, and it's binded to that light experimental electronic soundscaping. Also Shpongle comes to my mind (Enchilada Layover). Jazz-fussyon bassing also here and there nicely. "Rusty Nail" is very comfortable song. This album is full of "easy" music. It's a bit like Finnegans Wake's muzak. Nice "rockers", and I like it that tracks are short and continuing to next tracks. The album is some kind of symphony. Also _Harry_ Partch's "Delusion of the Fury" comes to my mind. PS It's strange that almost all the songs aren clocking :00 o'clocks.

In this case, album's concept is that songs are little pieces, and it's and working well. But I'm still waiting for bigger pieces. Maybe also more "distortion" and acoustic feel noises, because the music is concentrating much on atmosphere. Also, I have to say that I don't like the instrument that starts at 0:23 in "Cruisin' in El Monte", though it's widely used in Hox Vox's music.

My favourites are the songs I mentioned plus "Sabre" and "Chase in Downtown".

 

- Roni Kantola (http://last.fm/user/Fastro)




Edited by progressive - December 16 2009 at 16:24

VanVanVan wrote: Haha, no problem, man! If you've ever got some time on your hands, I have an avant-free project of which all the music can be downloaded here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63189 I'd be interested in hearing what you think, if you have the time.

I'm a already a Plasma Snake Barrel Roll listener (I'm Hoxerijo on Last.FM) look here http://www.last.fm/user/Hoxerijo/tracks.
The rest of comment in PSBR thread.

I'm listening to the music on youtube.  Excellent! I'll pick up the albums later.

I have listened to most of hox vox stuff an must say it's mindblowing.  Well done.

Thank you! ... I was quite convinced no one is interested in my work 

Edited by Hox - November 29 2009 at 11:44

I add a review of the whole Hox Vox discography on Gulf Coast Music.

Genre: Dada-Progressive Rock/Avant Garde Rock/Art Rock/Neo-Dadaist

Influenced by: Dadaist Movement, RIO Movement, Avant Garde Rock

Compared to: Actually no comparison, Hox is Hox and his style is his own!

Before beginning my actual review I feel it is a necessity to give you some background on the type of music that Hox is creating here.

The Dada movement began around the time of World War One, approximately 1915 and ran until about 1930 or so. A group of visual artists, poets and musicians, mainly in Europe, banded together to oppose the war specifically and society in general. They felt that if the world could participate in just a horrendous war, it was not worthy of true fine art and they set about creating their own versions of “faux art”. In the visual arts they produced absurd, surrealistic works, introducing elements that were totally out place with the main image. The Dadaists totally disregarded the norms of the day regarding art, literature and music theory. The goal of the Dadaists at that time was to poke fun at and destroy true art and replace it with their faux art.

In poetry, they would interject whistles, duck calls and multiple voices into their readings. Music wasn’t much better. Dissonance played a big role in this early “protest music”. Most Dada music becomes almost unbearable after more than a minute or two.

Dadaist concepts, in one form or another, have resurfaced over the years as a form of protesting injustices in the world of fine art. Some modern day examples would include the Beatnik era of the 1950s and the R.I.O. (Rock In Opposition) movement of the seventies which was in protest of the major record producers failure to recognize those artists who specialized in avant garde, improvisational and experimental rock music. The R.I.O. movement was lead by Henry Cow and included such artists as guitarist Fred Frith, percussionist Chris Cutler, John Zorn and Frank Zappa. The original intent was to form an organization to promote their style of music.

Once R.I.O. disbanded as an organization, it moved into the public domain as a musical genre. Groups associated with R.I.O. as a genre include 5uu’s, Guapo, Present and Thinking Plague. Today, RIO has become synonymous with avnt garde rock(avant-rock) and. experimental rock. As you will see shortly, some RIO music wasn’t very pleasant to listen to, either!

It is from this background that Hox and The Hox Vox Project has arisen. Hox says he is seeking a broader musical language, to better convey vast and ever changing moods in music. To do this, Hox must protest and totally disregard the boundaries and norms set by today’s accepted music theory.

He finds no problem with odd time signatures, such as 5/4 time, ambient noises, changing rhythms and/or genre in mid-song, irony and making fun of established norms and many other techniques.

The major difference between Hox’s music and past attempts to do this is that Hox has skillfully blended the techniques of Dadaist, RIO and Avant/Rock into enjoyable, easy to listen to, music! His music challenges and encourages us to “think out of the box” of the establishment. As a final affront to the established music world of today, Hox gives his music away absolutely FREE. Just visit his website, agree to the Creative Commons Deed and the music is yours! In short, if you have an eclectic taste for music, enjoy the unusual, want a conversation starter, or just want some FREE music, visit Hox’s website and download his four albums, you’ll be pleasantly surprised! I give Hox 9 out of 10 and a “thumbs up” for his remarkable music!

First, let me say I found it very difficult to choose tracks for this post as they are all great and convey different aspects of Hox’s music. Just as I finished my list I re-visited Hox’s website and found two more single tracks which I also included. The first is his treatment of Mama from The Spice Girls album by the same name and the second is Complete Control from the first album released by the group Clash. I also included, for comparison, an original Dadaist recording from 1914 and an improvisation from the RIO period. That way you can see exactly how great Hox’s music is! After the audio tracks is a short video Hox produced about a Hippie on Peyote set to his Belief:Greed from his Outskirts Album. I included this one because I grew up in the Hippie era!

Bill Dwyer, Gulf Coast Music Review

Thank you very much progkidjoel!, and excuse me you too for this mess, but really I still don't understand how it happened. Maybe my Firefox webmaster tools apply some macro to copy and paste if there is PHP/redirect code into (or maybe it's a Progarchive trick to avoid hacker code into messages, who knows?).

Thanks again, I hope you'll enjoy the tunes!

I don't know why I paste a link to download a record ... and if you click it you are sent directly to download directory, which has no direct access (?).

Anyway, I rewrite here links by hand instead of copy and paste, I hope this solve the problem.


Etoile

http://www.missero.it/hoxvox/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=15&Itemid=86

Das Chamaleon

http://www.missero.it/hoxvox/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=6&Itemid=86

Outskirt

http://www.missero.it/hoxvox/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=5&Itemid=86

Eight-Bit Deboned

http://www.missero.it/hoxvox/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=2&Itemid=86