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i dunno if someone posted earlier about this album....well, i stumble across this mb so rarely that y`all gonna have to listen to this... this snares album is soo damn gorgeous i cant get enough of it. fucking congrats to aaron funk...and to all the so well known vsnares bashers on this mb....well, just listen up fools! peace ;D |
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great album indeed. but I only listened to the mp3 so now waiting for my copy wchi will arrive soon... then I will know how really good it is |
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i got it yesterday...it's even worse than i thought...i don't think i'll be getting his albums in the future if he's going to continue like this :) |
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I thought it was decent. A 7/10 album for me, but it shows how he is maturing as an artist, and I look forward to what the future brings. Bonivital and Bent Annick are my favourites. |
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ops sorry |
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its quality stuff, didnt really get into it at first but a fat spliff, headphones and the dark soon got me straight. |
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why do you apologize? is you aaron? |
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isn't it kind of too rough to chill to? |
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nah not really, its so absorbing and complex that you just get lost in it. but then i listen to doll doll doll on the bus in the mornign to wake me up for work so anything goes really. |
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got the cd yesterday it's ace, my fav snares together with witboas |
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bonivital, vida, aaron and bezcitny..........damn.....gorgeous tracks. been listening the whole lp since yesterday. WITBOAS was way too dark for me (hence the Misfits cover of she), but this one is just perfect. I even showed it to my kid brother (16) who laughs at me all the time for listening to vsnares....he asked me to give him a copy of it cause he loved the lp too. listen up tolstoyed....cuz if you dislike this album so much i can`t begin to understand how on earth you like some of the rougher tracks of rdj. saludos a mi compañero arquitecto nacho nacmat...nice to see y`are still around dood! |
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I actually like the melodies better than the beats. Oooh! |
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"how on earth you like some of the rougher tracks of rdj." ?? i don't like smojphace, but appart from that there are no other rough tracks i know of...what am i missing here? :) |
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caustic window |
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caustic window= rough? i don't think so...it's a lovely, warm album imo. i like rougher music to venetian snares, it's not that...it's just that the vsnares sound doesn't do it for me anymore. i listened to hccbu today again, and i can listen to it...it's not as bad as i thought after the first listen, but still i like many other artists a whole lot more :) |
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listen to it again and again its an awesome album |
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ok. i've always fucking hated snare. i'm downloading this now, due to your collective gushing. i will listen to it, beginning to end, on my bed, with headphones, in the dark, beginning to end, and then deliver the absolutely final word on snares tomorrow or the day after. quiver in anticipation. |
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mmm I am looking forward to your post |
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Don't he's completely biased. |
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lol this cd is beautiful |
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No it's OK. Good in parts. Everything sounds the same though. He needs to reduce the number of album releases and then mix up the styles on his releases a bit instead of just releasing one particular flavour of track 13 times on the same CD. |
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but I would say that this cd has like two parts really, first half has a diferent mood to the second I prefer the first part... but the album as a whole is sweet in my ears... maybe is my state of mind |
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I only really really like the last track, the rest I didn't mind but I won't go back to again...there is so much better out and available. |
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tesselate: After his considerably light-hearted "Chocolate Wheelchair" album, Aaron Funk returns with the more serious and intricate "Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding". The strange title is fitting: it's an album full of metallic, elaborate and evolving tracks, and is a lot darker and more serious than its predecessor. The opener, "Huge Chrome Peach", sets the scene with a light but unsettling synth backed by sharp drums sequenced in the complex style that has become a trademark of Mr. Snares. It's good to see some new ideas being put into use on this album: some circuit bending of a speak and spell is present on tracks "Keek" and personal favourite "Ion Divvy"; there is definitely an 8-bit feel to a lot of the synths overall. More attention also seems to have been paid to melody, especially on the beatless track "Aaron" which is one of the most sombre efforts I have heard from the snares man so far, or take "Coke Ajax" which contrasts a slow, skittering beat with a noble and bleakly optimistic string backing. The album on the whole is a relatively dark, brooding and sometimes melanchonly piece of work, although not dark in the same way that his earlier stuff is. Where "Doll Doll Doll", for example, used nightmarish spoken word samples to weave its atmosphere, HCCBU uses subtlety and restraint. All of the tracks share the same dark, edgy atmosphere and it is a ittle samey in places, but on the whole it's very enjoyable. There is still the original snares style that fans have grown to love, the brilliantly named "Destroy Glass Castles" for example sounds like a robot attaching a million paperclips to itself and rolling down a mountain made of circuitboards. This is definitely more of a mature sound from Funk and demonstrates his progression technically and musically very well. Although it's easy to be put off by frequency of his releases, this album is well worth checking out if you are interested in this kind of thing. Anyone that liked winter in the belly of a snake is sure to |
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like this one. end |
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Then I guessed right. Me = satisfied. |
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me, really loved it since first listen but liking it more and more with the new listenings |
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planbmag: For Aaron Funk’s 11th long-player he finally creates a fluidly coherent album. Whereas past releases tended to contain that bastard ‘stand-out-track’ germ, Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding is designed to Gaudi-esque perfection. And what a monstrous affair it is, from the brutality of ‘Coke Ajax’ with its army of mechanical toads ribbiting in cinematic freestyle to the kinder toy-tronics of ‘Oida’, this is one brilliantly disturbing album. It is un-relentless, unforgiving, and completely absorbing. As powerful an electronica album heard in a long-time (since Squarepusher’s Big Loada or The Richard D. James Album at least), it’s filled with grotesque rhythmic belches, industrial accident noises and emphaceemic ravers using their own throat-boxes as whistles, chugging up rusted Jolly Ranchers in painful reverie (Mugwump style). Sound, texture and rhythm are blended into one abrasive attack formation. It is, as all great indulgences are, a very guilty pleasure. |
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wherehouse: The flowering of digitally processed origami on the cover of Aaron Funk's seventh Venetian Snares full-length for Planet Mu signals that Autechre is a reference point for the music inside. Far from being a slavish imitator, though, Funk is not only able to crunch the same high-volume numbers as Autechre (something few producers can manage), but also create tracks that expand the duo's straitjacket-tight musical aesthetic. Like Autechre, Funk's productions quicken or slow according to an internal rhythm, and he creates his productions from innumerable byte-size chunks of toneless digital percussion that together sound as though they've been sampled from thousands of different sources. There's always at least one line to hold the production together, functioning as a melody (sort of) and allowing the rest of the production to move as far afield as possible without deserting form entirely. Lengthening Funk's impressive track record on Planet Mu, Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding is the best recording Autechre never made, and it's better even than most of the ones Autechre have made. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide |
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"Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding" ("HCCBU" to his mates) is, believe it or not, the 11th album from Aaron Funk's Venetian Snares project. Stylistically closest to the "Winter in the Belly of a Snake" album, this latest excusrion finds mr Snares compiling a complex arrangement of algorythms and mathematical equations brought to life on an inhuman array of digital tools and ice-cold toys, mutilated and mangled with a little more consideration and thoughtfulness than last year's "Chocolate Wheelchair" set. Think Drukqs-era Aphex crossed with Confield era Ae for an idea, or maybe even the scholarly digital emissions of Richard Devine and the special needs mishaps of Otto Von Schirach. There's an added dimension on offer here though, lots of interwoven melodies and reflective stretches that imbue the album with a more "mature" presence, without neglecting the crazy-assed beats for the kids. Ace. boomkat |
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what do you get out of this album? i prefer emotional music atm...something to make me feel even more sad than i already am :) |
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for me this album is pure beauty deeply emotional... and really sad... epic in many ways its not dark as witboas... or scaring as findcandance... its beautiful in a sad emotional way or maybe its just me "fucking brokenhearted idiot=nacmat" |
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anyway I must say I dont agree with these reviews... I just thought they would be of interesting discussion |
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hmm...dunno how you manage to find emotions in this...hmm, surely im missing something... |
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i've bought the album coz of that review...so obiously i don't agree with it either :) |
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Maybe boredom is an emotion... Ho ho. |
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you are not missing anything its just that people have diferent taste in everything allt the time but this is all about music talking and by the way, I want to say that talking with you is always a good thing to do |
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touche |
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ohh, man...if only you were a girl... |
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hahahaha if only.... I would be touching my breasts all day |
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that comment goes great with aarons music actually... |
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This album is a total headfuck at first but it's quality. Probably the best Snares I've heard. You can come home from work, put it on and just get lost in it. Definatelly not music to work to though. |
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I find it fits perfectly with my mood these last days its my life soundtrack of last week I am noew listening to higgins ultra, and really he has evolved in many ways |
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think higgins era snares is still my favourite. some of the tunes off that and 2370894 and well solid. there's a lot more variety in those albums as well, which i like. |
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I couldnt choose an era.... and really its only 5 years since he started releasing cds worldwide... but I can see my favourites being really spread over the years: songs about my cats and doll doll doll from 2001 witboas and giant alien... in 2002 find candance in 2003 hccbu in 2004 |
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oh look |
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enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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