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i absolutely love this album...definitely one of best albums this year for me. it's a mixture of acoustic oriented rock music, rock music and electronica...i think everyone should check this album...honestly :) especially if you like moodier/melancolic stuff! is there no end to brilliant icelandic artists?? :) |
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yes!!! everyone should check out mugision, he's a friend of a friend of mine and he's starting to get pretty big. it's exciting to see others getting into him. it's good music too, people! |
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I like it. |
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tup. it's good! |
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one last bump :) |
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saw him live last night |
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well, i wish i did. was he any good? |
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i met him on thursday after i saw four tet and adem. adem was good but he said that four tet was a bit of a dissapointment and that was what i thought too. |
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was four tet too noisy? |
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well...a bit yes. he fucked up his songs real good. they weren't as sweet as they are on his cd's. |
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but his gig wasn't all bad, wasn't that bad at all maybe but i expected something totally different. |
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you had the same experience as me, then.. only I thought his concert was PURE crap. downloaded some samples before I went to check his concert.. sounded nice.. went to the concert and died of artificial sound-enema. some call it "dancing up the music," I call it not being able to connect wires. however, to the point, mugison sounded nice! another nice album added to my list of "got to get" today. |
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i might have a different experience with four tet...his music sounds a bit too sweet for my likings so perhaps i would prefer the live stuff. that live set i downloaded sounded really good from what i remember.. |
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well, it has some nice parts i guess but overall it could have been better. he didn't play for that long either. i couldn't go to see mugison unfortunately. i'm definately going to the get that niceland soundtrack though. on saturday i was working for a friend of mine driving some band stuff from concert places to their hotels. met bands like keane, the stills, the shins and bravery. don't know much about all of them but those guys were pretty nice. |
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great..you apperantly have quite a music scene upthere.. as for mugison - 'niceland' is awesome and 'lonely mountain' is little less awesome but still very very good! |
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yeah, the liveshow would fit you nicely from what I gather... I think he's done some remix-ish stuff on Smalltown Supersound that probably would be more to your liking as well, but I can't find it... I think he's done something together with or something... |
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another icelandic artist i've heard good things about that you should check out tolstoyed, stafrænn hákon. found out two weeks ago that he's the boyfriend of my friend's sister. |
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yeah, lonely mountain is good but i'm hoping niceland is better and from what you say it probably is. |
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although i was a bit disappointed with four tet, adem was pretty good despite of some sound problems. i have to check their mutual band fridge, don't know if they're any good though but they probably are. |
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mastah, i'll look up for that, cheers! atli, i have stafraenn's 'skvettir edik a ref' and i love it...beautiful stuff. iceland is full of great musicians. btw, when is your album coming out? :) |
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fridge are awesome!! i like it much more than four tet. |
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I think Four Tet is good live. It could have been a bit boring if the music was like on the cd, so I think he is doing right by "dancing up" the music. |
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btw, if you like hakon, you might want to check out a spanish band called balago and their first album 'erm'...it's very similar..perhaps a bit more dark, but one of my favourite albums in this genre! |
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i've only heard a few songs by him but i like him, and his humour. his songtitles and albumtitles are so fucked up. stafrænn hákon means "digital hákon" but hákon isn't but hákon isn't even his name. nice to hear, i'll definately check them out. Heh, my album will be out in a few years i hope :). |
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mortsto..kind of what im thinking...i never like to hear them play same stuff i can hear on records..although from what dm and atli are saying, it sounds like he's quite different live...i'll have to see for myself i think :) |
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i have no idea what those track titles mean...music definitely isn't funny though. oh, and im looking forward to your album :) |
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i have nothing against artist mixing up their stuff live but it's so totally different from his albums and at times i was thinking "what the fuck is he doing!". i'll check out that balago stuff as well. |
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hehe, we'll see if i have any talent, probably not, but you don't know what can happen in a few years :). |
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i don't know about iceland and all that "great artist-thing" though. i think they might get more attention since they're from iceland. doesn't make them less great but somehow i think that the country helps them become better known worldwide. |
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you can't read a review about icelandic music unless it's partially about either björk, sigur rós or volcanos, hot springs and glaciers. i'm getting a bit tired of that kind of reviews. |
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Ok.. I'll go into more detail about his liveshow for you.. he had two laptops and a sampler. he put on his regular tracks (split up into loops on his sampler and laptops so he could switch on and off the different sounds, so that part of the show was mostly playback-ish.. then, what he actually did live was to put on some static, twist the knobs of the sampler so that the loop-time/pitch of the samples was upped to the unrecogniseable and turned into a squeaking noise that my right ear still has nightmares about (when I manage to ignore the tinnitus and get some sleep). however, it seems his liveshow is always the same, and it's always only 30 minutes long... the sample on his homepage is almost identical to what I heard, and from what Atli is saying, I think he did the same stuff there.. he plays the normal stuff, and then goes off into oblivion with noise that'll blast your eardrums. |
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yeah, same thing as for Bergen a while back (just a bit less international)... everything that came out of here turned into hits on the radio... even though it was all the same uniform shit like Sgt Petter and St. Thomas. It was crap, and I'm glad that æra is past. |
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that's exactly what he did here, and his show was only 30 minutes long too. and yeah, he did this uncomfortable squeaking noise as well a few times. |
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you think? because i have no idea they're from iceland untill i check out album..though it's true i see them mentioned and therefore decide to check them out. perhaps they have a real good distribution and promotors or something - i wish other countries would have that, if that really is the case. i live in a pretty small country as well, but it's still like 5 times bigger than iceland (2 mio citizens), and i haven't heard a band i'd really like - honestly. as for balago - i just gave it a listen again, and it is superb stuff - if you can check out these two songs in particula; 'maccabea' and 'pendulos'...amazing music. |
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yeah, so you know exactly what i'm talking about. that kind of thing gets irritating fast. |
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that last was a followup to drunken mastah of course :) |
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hmm, that's sounds kinda lame, but still, if he comes my way i'll go see him :) |
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you should definately check him out and see if it's something that you like. we only have about 280.000 people here so slovenia is probably 10x bigger population wise :) |
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i went there this summer by the way. just drove through though. the part where i went through was pretty simular to croatia and that whole istria area, which was nice. |
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there's really not much more to it :) i mean, you drove through half of slovenia.. |
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well, maybe, but i didn't go to lubljana. |
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you must have passed it though, since there's only one other road bus could go from the airport to istria :) unless you wen't through italy..but that'd be silly. ljubljana only has about 300.000 citizens so it's pretty small anyway...it's about 20 kms from the airport, so if you'd look to your left when you were driving to istria you'd notice it, unless the weather was shitty.. |
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me and my brother almost did there first video on the hand sown album! but i got really sick and couldnt travell! damned food poisening |
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we landed in italy, drove through slovenia and stayed in croatia for two weeks and drove back to italy again. i didn't notice any big city or anything but it was pretty dark when we landed and when we were leaving i sat on the left side of the bus. i might have missed it but i doubt it :). well... reykjavÃk is only 1/3 of that size but it's the biggest place around here. there's nothing special to it either imo. |
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not sure i get it...could you tell a bit more? |
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well...we were going to croatia but we landed in an airport in italy. to get to croatia we had to drive through the slovenian boarder on our way to croatia. when we went home we had to drive the same way back. |
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oh i see...you landed on trieste airport (ronchi)..i thought it was brnik. you only saw very little of slovenia then - and not particulary good part either..especially in the peek of the tourist season :) you must have passed trieste though, and that's a pretty big city - it was one of bigger european cities a century ago...plenty stories about that city - im really intrigued by it and am surely going to look into all those books one day..it's kind of misterious to me for some reason.. |
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actually that above was a reply to dingle berry...i could understand you perfectly :) |
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yeah, we landed in and passed trieste but didn't see much of that one either, unfortunately, because it was very dark when we landed. on our way back home everybody were in such a hurry so we didn't have a chance then either. i bet the balkan nations hate the tourist time :) |
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hehe, had to be. i thought i had explained myself perfectly and thought it was strange you didn't get it :). i didn't get dingle berry's comment either, didn't know which band he was talking about. damnit...gotta go back to class, thanks for the talk. |
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