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jvempire: May 10, 2009

It's got to be an album with the way their teasing it. If it was a single, wouldn't they just release it out of nowhere to surprise everyone? But then again it is Justice... drat it, I'll just hope what ever they release is top quality.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2011 20:51

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 04:59

jvempire: May 10, 2009

The Fresh Prince posted:

Isn't their new song supposed to be called "Civilization"?

fake edit: this sounds nothing like them

real edit: that song sucks hardcore

Yup, it's probably just like all those Tron Legacy soundtrack "leaks" were they just got some random songs and said it was Daft Punk. I mean I'm not going to say that their new album will sound the same as their first one, but really listen to that "Shout it out" then this.

jvempire fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Mar 15, 2011

# ¿ Mar 15, 2011 05:18

jvempire: May 10, 2009

The Fresh Prince posted:

http://www.youtube.com/user/adidas

Has the official ad with the justice track in the background.

Well the ad definitely made me excited for the single and album (for some reason not shoes, weird huh?) Though, I guess the only thing we can really do is just wait and see.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2011 05:08

jvempire: May 10, 2009

The Fresh Prince posted:

No offense to either of them, or gays, but that sounds realllly gay.

The only way I can see it being cool would be if it was like this (replace sand with a tablet) but if they aren't committed to it, it would just be so lame.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2011 01:57

jvempire: May 10, 2009

infinity2005 posted:

Um isn't he basically describing Trance? Not Electro-house...

I don't think he's looking for trance since the 2 example videos were from Portal 2, which has an electro based soundtrack.

So I would definitely agree with Justice and Danger. Only thing else I would add would be Vitalic too.

Ras Het posted:

What the hell did I just read? Are you actually insane?

He's referring to what Xavier de Rosnay once said:

quote:

We stuck to our original idea to make a 2007 opera-disco album, even if we are conscious that some tracks don't sound like proper disco at first listen. The best example is the song �Waters of Nazareth,� which does not sound like disco when you listen to it for the first time. But if you forget that everything is distorted, the bass lines are just really basic disco patterns.[

But what he said about Justice getting him interested into house... well yeah Justice isn't house so I don't know what he's talking about there. Maybe he meant electro-house got him into house.

And this maybe the time to ask, but I really think the OP should be updated to have a list of the most popular artists for suggestions. Because I found out about Boys Noize, Danger and other good artists randomly, when everyone else already knows about them already. Like a master list of sorts.

jvempire fucked around with this message at 01:41 on May 26, 2011

# ¿ May 26, 2011 01:38

jvempire: May 10, 2009

ANTIMISANDRIST posted:

How the gently caress is Justice not house?

I did say electrohouse, but just house would be a bit of a stretch I would say.

ANTIMISANDRIST posted:

I was under the impression that electro house is a kind of house.

Oh that's what you meant, then yes electrohouse is part house. All I meant before when I was talking about QCIC was that Justice isn't just house, but has an electro part to it as well.

jvempire fucked around with this message at 05:56 on May 26, 2011

# ¿ May 26, 2011 03:53

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Looks like Sebastian's album, Total, is out. This pretty much sums up the album, but I think I found two reviews that give a different perspective on it.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2011 05:23

jvempire: May 10, 2009

plogo posted:

listen to real disco as well!

The best way to do this too is to go on whosampled, look up your favorite house artists and listen to the songs they sampled.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2011 21:47

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Vernacular posted:

Man, this is so cool. I love the Dewaeles.

http://radiosoulwax.com/

Have they ever said who does the visuals (editing and animating the covers) for the radio soulwax?

VVVVVVVVVV Thanks! Didn't see that page.

jvempire fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Jun 30, 2011

# ¿ Jun 30, 2011 00:32

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Furnace posted:

2manydjs are the loving best.

I didn't know about this until I checked their forums, but it looks like 6 more hours coming next monday AND they are going to release a new one every week after until they get up to 24 hours (around october).

http://erolalkan.co.uk/?p=6544

# ¿ Jul 1, 2011 21:10

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Longtiem posted:

bringing this thread back to a discussion of MUSIC

Seriously, that entire video is gifable.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2011 20:41

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Stuntastic posted:

I don't know if this has ever been posted here but it's loving hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhyNCLiBtRI

I imagine Threatis watching this and his eye twitching involuntarily

"The URL contained a malformed video ID."
in quotes your url is

code:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#8203;=mhyNCLiBtRI

don't know why though...
I think this should work, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhyNCLiBtRI

I've seen it before, don't know where but I do have a comment on the video, but it's still very funny.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2011 06:24

jvempire: May 10, 2009

melee beats posted:

notice there are no disco house tutorials

Nice try melee! :smug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTwPJ5ffTT4

# ¿ Jul 18, 2011 01:03

jvempire: May 10, 2009

melee beats posted:

haha, with chic no less!

edit: oh god this is a horrible tutorial. please don't do this if you want to get into disco house

Don't worry, I don't plan on it.

melee beats posted:

This would work well with those "This isn't normal, but on meth it is" PSA's.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2011 02:01

jvempire: May 10, 2009

cubicle gangster posted:

I know your post wasnt directed at me, but I think it's poo poo too. so...
It's soulless, and feels like many of the decisions within the track have been made because they're expected to be there, rather than they're there because it's right.
I dont feel theres any life to it. It's just a bunch of noises arranged in a way that fits in with a genre with enough variation to not be boring. It's born straight out of the era of music where it's now almost too cheap and easy to make professional sounding electronic music and it shows. Thats just how it makes me feel though, I find a lot of dubstep like that - maybe because it's still relativly new as far as a real genre is concerned, it's the cool thing to make (every music production forum is saturated with poo poo dubstep now), and theres relatively few people with massive amounts of experience making it.

New talent does exist, especially in house music. It's the best it's been for a very long time, and theres so much amazing stuff coming out all over the place at the moment.

This is how I feel about the Skrillex dubstep that everyone does(I know there's more dubstep than this, I'm just talking about the one that's done to death). It's predictable and uninspiring, and like you said it seems like those dubstep songs sound like they are only trying to sound like dubstep. This is what they do: Fast pace wobble song or slow song is played into a fast pace wobble drop. It's like those electro house songs (example) that are all about the drop, except while the formulas the same they at least can sound different. And it doesn't even make sense to me, why do they build up to the wobble, wouldn't it make more sense to build up by using the wobble?

Although an artist who has used the wobble interestingly is Siriusmo. Speaking of him, has anyone listened to the Pearls and Embarrassments albums? I want to hear some opinions on it.

TheJetCityFix posted:

Alright, so a few of my friends and I decided we wanted to make some club music, and we know pretty much nothing about dance music. We made this track, and I was hoping to get some critique from you guys.

I'm no music pro but the problem with the song sounds like it's not finished. I think you should head over to this thread for some advice and help if you haven't already.

jvempire fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jul 24, 2011

# ¿ Jul 24, 2011 18:12

jvempire: May 10, 2009

x TOMMYBOY x posted:

Thanks for the answer.

As for the compilation part, I only bought it because I was looking for Deadmau5 4x4=12 and it was unfortunately not there.

No most of their stuff does sound like house, but every once in a while a random track like this one will come on and just raise some questions.

Honestly I'm trying to do some more personal listening so I don't have to be berated on forums but sometimes I wanna hear a reply from a more experienced listener/connoisseur/whatever. If you find the questions so hilarious you really don't have to answer.

If you start diving more into house music you'll figure out why people find your comments about not knowing if Daft Punk is house music funny. (An example of house music)

The reasons you may find some of those Daft Punk songs "experimental" is because house music is very diverse in how it can sound (there's a lot of subgenres of house too). Just compare how each Daft Punk album sounds and you'll get what I mean. Now if you're wonder what a house song is it's hard to give a specific answer, but at its basics it's "Sample a song, and then funkify it".

# ¿ Jul 30, 2011 18:43

jvempire: May 10, 2009

28 Gun Bad Boy posted:

Except House neither needs to sample another song, nor funkify it. Just to add more confusion into the mix there. Really I'd label stuff House by the time honoured tradition of tempo. House will generally be around 120-130bpm give or take. And in general it'll have a four-to-the-floor drum pattern. Except the odd occasion when it doesn't. Oh my.

Yeah it doesn't need sample or funk, and what you say there is true. But I think maybe the best way to help know how house music sounds (for x TOMMYBOY x atleast) is to listen to a bunch of house music and he'll probably figure it out. Though I guess that's true for most music anyways :v:

# ¿ Jul 30, 2011 20:19

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Finnish Flasher posted:

sorry to bump this from waaaay back but what video is this from?

Que que.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFZ-WWtzivk

# ¿ Aug 2, 2011 01:37

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Dono posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAdMc_e3MpU

hahaha discuss. I expect nothing short of this poo poo from his performance

One of four CDj's being used? hmm

Maybe he's like a comedian and this is a skit. Or a professional clown.

All I know is that he's doing the jesus pose for most of the video.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2011 00:19

jvempire: May 10, 2009

My favorite Deadmau5 songs are the ones he made for minecraft, no jokes! If only he just made ambient songs, since that's where his best stuff is.

Tommyboy you might like Siriusmo. He loves genre-mixing and sometimes he does like to mess around with dubstep. So I recommend checking out his album Mosaik. Although just as a warning some of the songs maybe a bit out there, but there are good songs on there.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2011 01:40

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Helix makes me more hopeful for the album, and I'm fine with not being a "banger". Changing things up is fine, and hopefully the album is filled with some fun tracks.

But more importantly, Mr Oizo's new album better blow my mind. It's apparently going to be released very soon. HYPE.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2011 07:06

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

Honestly, the only DJ Mehdi track I've ever heard is "Signatune [Thomas Bangalter Edit]", but goddamn that track ruled. That really sucks. He was only 34, too

R.I.P., dude.

I would say I wasn't that big of a fan of him, but Pocket Piano rules, and Carte Blanche has some great songs too. I think it was just a case that his music career wasn't done yet, or well I guess it is now :smith:

# ¿ Sep 14, 2011 00:19

jvempire: May 10, 2009

OniKun posted:

(But seriously, is this what passes nowadays? People accept this as a remix?)

Your answer is in the youtube comments, "I'll tell you what im waiting for, The loving drop!!!"

# ¿ Sep 23, 2011 23:56

jvempire: May 10, 2009

jimmyjams posted:

I really, really wish "Audio, Video, Disco" was more Planisphere than it was Cross part deux.

I'd say the songs we have heard from the preview are more Planisphere lite than Cross.

I think the new Justice style has grown on me. While the songs aren't "bangers", they seem very relaxing to listen to. Although

Oh yeah here's a few interesting and recent interviews by Art of Noize:
Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7WMss-Fbvw
Danger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6W65vyhFg8
Feed Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUJY5GTL3iI

# ¿ Oct 9, 2011 17:38

jvempire: May 10, 2009

WickedIcon posted:

I've been getting really into Kavinsky lately, is there anything out there that's really like what he does?

Something tells me you came here from Drive. I need to see that movie... But to answer your question, from the same movie too, College seems to do the fake 80s movie soundtrack really well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86vEuoTUYMc

# ¿ Oct 10, 2011 05:29

jvempire: May 10, 2009

CubistK2 posted:

Heyo this goes out to all the Danger Fans, Can anyone explain what is going on here?

Recently An old unreleased track (13h40) has been revealed here: http://www.stopthenoise.fr/2011/11/06/danger-13h40-et-ses-projets/

It sounds RAD TO THE MAX and echoes the older 2007-08 Danger, although there's no clear way of telling it's real...

More importantly, if you read the article and look at the comments, the first post by a Jos� is this little gem : http://i.imgur.com/BwWT7.png
Looks like a whole catalogue of Danger tracks, of course how could any of this be real?

Sure enough, in a later post Jos� uploads another Danger Track (Sounding a lot less finished) :
http://soundcloud.com/emmanuelderouge/21h34

I've tried to sherlock holmes this, but to no avail, can anyone shed any light? Or have any other theories?
13h40 sounds pretty convincingly like Danger, But I think this Jos� is a load of BS

The Jose guy is probably completely BS, but the 13h40 (or there's no official name for that track really) is confirmed to be real. Danger has played it live and it is part of this mix: http://www.inthemix.com.au/fm/50241/Danger_ITMFM_exclusive_mix

# ¿ Nov 8, 2011 06:41

jvempire: May 10, 2009

CubistK2 posted:

I believe you, and I agree that Jose's probably pullin everyone's leg.

But I've listened to the ITM mix and 13H40 isn't played in in it, unless I completely missed it somewhere.

Are you sure it contains this song? - http://soundcloud.com/stopthenoise/danger-13h40-old-unreleased

Oh I thought you were talking about the first song on that page. Now that song I don't know about. It could easily be a song revived from Danger's recycle bin, but you may never know.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2011 17:21

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Firaga posted:

Funkineven was playing some wicked acid.

Speaking of acid, I've been listening to a lot of modern acid techno and house, lots of Turbo. Where can I find more of this stuff? I love the retro but modern production sounds, and some of the acid people are producing right now is great. Doesn't have to be full on squelching acid, influences, old school sounds, a bit of acid, a lot of acid, it all goes I just want acid!

Anyone wanna recommend me some artists and labels?

edit/note: I LOVE BNR but I'm looking for some deeper sounds.

Well it's not technically new, but Radio Soulwax has a few hours that deal with acid. Jack in the Box and This Is Belgium Part One.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2011 02:52

jvempire: May 10, 2009

notMordecai posted:

It's definitely a weird song. Lambs Anger was tough to get into (this is coming from a guy who liked Moustache (Half a Scissor)) but I'm hoping that I can play a lot more of these tracks in my car without my friends begging me to turn off all the distorted noise tracks Lambs Anger had.

I listened to a few songs from the leak and it's way better than Lambs Anger. It definitely seems like there are more enjoyable songs than random distorted noise songs compared to his previous albums.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2011 01:04

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Stade 2 is pretty much Mr Oizo noticing people like Positif and making an album based around that. That may sound mediocre, but hey in a funny way that's oizo's style.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2011 04:04

jvempire: May 10, 2009

The Fresh Prince posted:

Also Thoogsby, that song sucks balls. It honestly sounds like a parody of dubstep.

I wouldn't say a parody, but more of just following the same exact formula of every single brostep/skrillex song. Mellow -> wob wob -> repeat.

But now for something a little more festive. Holiday On Ice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXgzsNBKcww
For people who don't know, Le Knight Club is one half of Daft Punk. The beat from Around The World can be clearly heard, and this has led some people to believe that Holiday On Ice is an Around The World beta. It's hard to tell though, since both songs were released in 1997, meaning who knows which song was being worked on first. Either way I think it's a great song, along with all the others on the Crydamoure label, and it goes really well with the winter mood.

Also somewhat unrelated, but this song is just funny to me (it's christmasy too!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0n9btRB7tw

# ¿ Dec 19, 2011 22:23

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Kerk posted:

Seconding this statement. Can there be a Crydamoure Appreciation thread?

I would be interested as well, especially if someone knows a lot of information about the various artists on it and where they are now. Although it could be short lived since I don't think anything else has been released from Crydamoure since Waves 1 and 2.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2011 20:39

jvempire: May 10, 2009

The Fresh Prince posted:

http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/paris-hilton-to-make-house-music

Hope she samples this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5T0nLnKFzQ

# ¿ Jan 11, 2012 06:20

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Kerk posted:

The Rustie essential mix is a game changer... seriously might be one of my fave EMs I've heard. Definitely worth checking it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?36ngbey7j4vzr3d

Very interesting use of Legend of Zelda sound clips.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2012 19:31

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Baauer - Harlem Shake, from that Rustie Essential Mix that was posted a while ago, was just released today! It's a free download too.
http://soundcloud.com/maddecent/sets/baauer-harlem-shake-jeff118/

incoherent posted:

For whatever reason that show is getting pushed insanely hard by goldenvoice. Does he have a new ep/album yet?

The plan by Danger is to release the EP and then the album soon after. What I'm assuming is after all of his tours that will happen.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 00:36

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Mr.Bond posted:

Madeon put up another teaser for a new song, and holy poo poo, it's amazing

Speaking of kids, Ego Troopers and Transistorcake are doing a collab. Here's a preview of it:
http://soundcloud.com/egotroopers/ego-trooper-ft-transistorcake

# ¿ Jun 2, 2012 00:10

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Dopo posted:

Mods, can we get the thread title changed to "Bloghouse 2007: A Retrospective"? Thanks!

Seriously though, if that is what people want then maybe we should just have a new NMD House thread or incorporate it into the new Techno/Tech House one. We're obviously not speaking the same language here.

I don't get it, what's wrong with discussion? I mean there's barely any posts in this thread anyways, so it's not like it will get into the way of link dumps.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2012 20:33

jvempire: May 10, 2009

zerojake posted:

that's not what acid house means. this track is cybergoth garbage. anime convention rave trax. music to spin glowy poi to.

I will have to mend the hole that dude made.... TRAX TRAX TRAX
Shadow Dancer - Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEmECvmjcY8

# ¿ Jun 11, 2012 22:06

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Dopo posted:

I'm no authority but generally acid doesn't have long buildups and drops like this. This tune is definitely inspired by acid but pulls a lot from modern electro-house and earlier BNR type stuff as well.

Now this. This is Acid:
http://youtu.be/ius0C32Uw2M

Yes it's definitely not a full on acid trax, but does it really need to be? I'm fine with a modern approach to acid. I mean this stuff is great:
http://youtu.be/X77pgyNqfkc
http://youtu.be/f-7gr7SHTCY
But when people interpret acid house in different ways, like in these New Beat songs:
http://youtu.be/tGB1PTWqcRg
http://youtu.be/QsK2mfaIMrI
it's still pretty great.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2012 02:22

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 04:59

jvempire: May 10, 2009

Longtiem posted:

http://soundcloud.com/theotheraphextwin

I'm well versed in all things musical. My compositional process takes quite a bit of time though yes, first I write all of my pieces on staff paper, carefully layering out each note and percussion hit, then I must write the vocal arrangements and condense my vast array of intellectual foresight into simple lyrics anyone could understand, once this is done the recording process begins, I begin by recording the drum tracks, with my Akai-MPC3000, slowly but surely making sure every hit is precise, then I begin to think of other instruments and effects to take on to the piece, usually taking weeks in it's own, then I'll begin to record the vocal arrangement, but with a delicate voice like mine I must be careful and do many takes. I do not simply play on a computer."

Hahaha reminds me of the drum n bass parody channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0wosrVq7M

# ¿ Jun 19, 2012 20:09

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