How has burial dated for you?
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shakahislop
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there's absolutely no point in listening to burial unless you need these little beams of empathy he shoots out, that's what it's for
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
It’s shit being old of course I need empathy, you get cold earlier, you have a hot water bottle, people think you smell of piss and it’s not you it’s all the 80+ year olds having a knees up across the nation built up to levels where we’ve collectively forgotten that Britain smells of piss
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WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
anyway, so this Burial lad, where did it go wrong?
It was wrong from the outset. the middle class aestheticisation of shabbiness and failure.
jungle was always technical, labour intensive music. right from the days of 4hero and reinforced. The difference is in the development of synthetic basslines. Early jungle had labor intensive beat editing and sample placement with simple 808 or sampler tone basslines, whereas in later techy dnb the basslines were modulated and moving, and just do not sound good juxtaposed with crushing breaks. It's the same reason why there are relatively few examples of acid based breakbeat tunes, because the whole point of the best acid house is playing the same thing over and over again, whilst modulating it. It's why Charanjit Singh was quite bemused when people from the grauniad showed him Phuture - Acid Trax. He said it had nothing to do with 10 ragas, and he was right.
shakahislop
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one thing where it went very right i think is that he has totally shunned exploiting his semi-fame. hard to think of others who have done it so fully. specifically refusing to release an 'album' since 2007 and never ever playing live. i've always been impressed by that. leaving the money on the table.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
moments passing, time, time passing, reflecting on the new old new
i mean as cachet, one moment you’re the next big thing, next people have found TikTok
i mean as cachet, one moment you’re the next big thing, next people have found TikTok
william_kent
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first track on the second album
this was his peak:
Burial - Arcangel
all downhill after this
Of the later tunes, I think 'Loner', 'Truant', 'Rough Sleeper', 'Rival Dealer', 'Chemz' and 'Claustro' are the best. Basically, the stuff where it's moodier, rougher or dancier.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Tell you had an arc - Noah @mixed_biscuits
El-B said it's not really a choice. He just can't overcome his anxiety, stage fright, whatever, to be able to do it, even when festivals are chucking money at him. I think it's also not really his thing, but that's apparently a big part of it.
shakahislop
Well-known member
zero magazine articles since 2007, zero podcasts, and so on
that's assuming he really exists and is not an alter ego of kode nine or four tet.
mixed_biscuits
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Biotic recs tunes featured a fair bit of acidy twiddling, to great effect:
nah I mean there are quite a few
sampled, not played in of course.
this one is a bit more modulated but the breaks aren't chopped and its got a 4-4 undergirding it.
shakahislop
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didn't we already go through this? he's greg rusedski it's so obvious i can't believe this is still a discussion
