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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: August 29 2023 at 00:52 |
https://awesomeprog.com/releases/65556 released like 20 hours ago, available on YT and Spotify.
Don't know what to make of it yet - I'm not not liking it
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Deadwing
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Loved it, it's basically "The Flashbulb" with Steven's voice in it. (you guys should check him out) I'm curious with how the electronic drums will sound like in the other songs of the album.
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MikeEnRegalia
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And now the actually video has been released :-)
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MikeEnRegalia
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Well, I'm going to add the tag "trapbeat" to my website. Wouldn't have thought to need to do it for a prog artist ;-)
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Cristi
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is it a trap beat though? It's not like those trap rappers invented the wheel or something.
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MikeEnRegalia
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^ Like it or not, what is commonly called "trap beat" in music production is what we're hearing here, origins in hip hop / rap not withstanding. Trap beats are common in pop music nowadays.
Here's some examples of trap beats, feel free to compare them to the SW track. https://trap-beat.com/downloads/category/guitar-trap/ Edited by MikeEnRegalia - August 29 2023 at 02:28 |
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progaardvark
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I can't quite make out what that thing on the floor they were dancing around was. It looks like something made out of Lego bricks. I can't imagine dancing barefoot on such a hard floor either. Having had plantar fasciitis once in the past, that would be one of the last things I'd do on a hard floor. The music itself reminds me of a humming paragraph which branches out into mailbox blankets, cloudy bookshop spray, and throughput pump etymology. It's the snail snuff astronomy that gets me. Oy!
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Octopus II
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Somebody dumped a lorry load of Lego at the top of our street last night.
The Police don't know what to make of it.
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Cristi
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OK. It seems we're gonna get The Future Bites part 2.
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rushaholic
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was hoping for more raven and less future bites. not going to happen is it?
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MikeEnRegalia
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^ Nope
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Grumpyprogfan
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Bloody awful! And the mix, which Steven is known for, is bad. Main vocal is way too loud, and the drum machine/programming (trap beats) is yuck. Is the whole album going to be trap beats?
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MikeEnRegalia
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^ I doubt that. This just in (on the SW facebook page):
"Next week something completely different, the mostly instrumental 11 minute hybrid of progressive rock, spiritual jazz and electronica that is Impossible Tightrope. I couldn’t be prouder of this album and I think you are going to enjoy it too!" So electronica: yes, but probably more complex than this track. EDIT: There's a 15 second audio snippet in the message, sounds much better. Edited by MikeEnRegalia - August 29 2023 at 07:50 |
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Lewian
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I think this is fine. Not outstanding but fine. I like it more than anything I've heard from Future Bites. (I wasn't that keen on the Raven either to be honest.)
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moshkito
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Hi,
I get the feeling that SW thinks he can do anything he comes up with and wants to do, and ... it won't be an issue ... it will be liked, and folks will get it, not to mention that his live concerts are excellent and a must see. While the vocals are nice, I really think the piece lacks "soul" ... and the dancing has a few interesting parts, but does not feel like it belongs to the song at all ... it's almost like it's there for show, and not to help the song. I was thinking that if this had Kevin Godley directing it might have a better sense of its conceptual entirety, but I think the dancing is not well defined enough to help the song ... it's very NY stylized in modern dance ... a lot of which is very empty and soul'ess. Interesting, and not bad, mind you, but in the end, you won't remember a lot of it later ... it's not like Misha or Rudy, that you remembered those flights through the air for years in your mind and wonder how they did that! Sorry SW ... you have done a lot of great things, but this is not one of them.
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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A description off Burning Shed website........Pre-order was released last night. I ordered the vinyl version of course.
The Harmony Codex - the seventh album by Steven Wilson - is a genre-spanning
collection that represents the apotheosis of a life spent fully absorbed in
music. While The Harmony Codex nods to records from Steven Wilson’s recent past, at times echoing the paranoid rumble of 2008’s Insurgentes, the crystalline electronics of 2021’s The Future Bites and the expansive storytelling of 2013’s The Raven That Refused To Sing (and Other Stories), here he has managed to create something entirely unique, a record that exists outside of the notion of genre. And although The Harmony Codex is a record made with spatial audio in mind, it’s not one that needs an elaborate sound system to lift you out of body - two speakers and an open mind will do just fine. |
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mellotronwave
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think 'i'll spare some bucks
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MikeEnRegalia
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^ Will listen to it on Spotify. I’ll assist SW in his fight against evil consumerism and not spend any money on the release, unless I end up REALLY liking it after several listens.
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progaardvark
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I'm still thinking about that object made out of Lego bricks. Is Steven going to use Legos to get me to buy his album?
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