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does every single boomkat review praise the shit out of the release, no matter what it is or how crap it is. perhaps im not looking hard enough, but i cant find a single negative comment. i know its just a marketing thing, and most other places do it too, but its a little pointless having a review in the first place if you know every single review is just claiming its the album of the year. |
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I think they may be trying to only sell music they seem to support. |
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I've spotted a few negative reviews. The ones I can think of: Tycho Bonobo Funkstorung And I think Taxidermist is right. You very rarely see any funky house/club related stuff on boomkat. They just list the genres they like, and try to find the positive aspects of each release. They provide samples anyway, so you can always make up your own mind. Boomkat is great. |
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so? they're trying to make money. i dont blame them for putting spin on everything. maybe you could do a bit of background research about a release. read reviews on other sites, d/l a few tracks of slsk or something. or listen to the actual samples on boomkat itself. they offer a good service, but are a shop, not a review site, so of course they will have a bias. |
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yeah yeah i know. i know theyre a shop not a reveiw site, and i know theyre just trying to sell records. i didnt really considered that they only sell things they like. i dunno, i guess im not blaming them it just got on me nerves browsing about. blablabla, i'll stop posting pointless topics now. |
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also they put up samples wich say more than any review..but yeah, like people say, they sell music they actually like. |
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they wrote a kind of a bad review of the Freq_out2 cd (Ash international) but i liked the sample & bought it and.... in fact it's very good, its just a bit weird & static : droney/ambient music feat. Bjnilsen & much of the touch/ash smala. |
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see (funny review btw): http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=19846 |
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You occassionally get neutralish ones of certain tracks in a release, but even then, always praise for the rest of it too. The worst I've seen was they (rightly) described Skreams album as having too much filler, but then went on to say, something along the lines of, "but the other tracks are so absolutely amazing that this doesn't matter at all." |
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samples can bugger you, though. I remember the samples of Dick Devine's "Cautella" sounding amazing, while the record itself isn't that interesting at all. |
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Yeah, I find it's fairly rare, I had the same thing with Library Tapes - Feelings For Something Lost. One of the 2 samples was good, so I bought it, but then all the other tracks were rubbish and even that track wasn't much cop in full length. |
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sometimes, sure. i think i learnt quite well of what to expect through listening to samples. |
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& that's what is missing from warpmart (besides their own releases) |
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I agree that in the vast majority of cases they are a massive help and 80% of my recent music purchases have been directly as a result of listening to boomkat samples. |
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the campfire headphase review wasnt that kind. |
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Yep, and at the end puts an equivalent to "buy this shit". |
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I never read that dismissive Tycho review before, EXCELLENT. |
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" TYCHO - Past Is Prologue Merck CD // £12.99 TYCHO - Past Is Prologue, Merck New on Merck. A fleshed out re-issue of Tycho’s first widely available album ‘Sunrise Projector’, ‘Past is Prologue’ comes bundled with groovy new artwork and three exclusive remixes from Dusty Brown, Chachi Jones and Planet Mu’s Nautilis. As Merck begins to wind down it’s been releasing some of the most interesting titles on it’s books yet, sadly this isn’t one of them and is possibly one of the most unashamed Boards of Canada pastiches I have ever heard. It’s not even that the music is unpleasant, it really isn’t – but it just makes me want to root out for the real thing. Using synths that sound like they’ve actually been sampled from the Hi-Scores EP and even resorting to lo-fi vocal samples underneath the dusty drum samples there seems to be no stone left unturned. I know a lot of artists get compared to BoC, they’ve become the typical genre comparison – you make electronic music and use nice melodies, well you sound like BoC, but that aside, ‘Past is Prologue’ really DOES sound like our Scottish friends. I guess people will lap this up (it already sold 5000 on the Grammafon label), especially after the disappointment of ‘The Campfire Headphase’ but I don’t know how much more low-slung loops and pretty analogue melodies I can take before I reach total saturation. Even an awesome remix from Nautilis doesn’t save this one I’m afraid – bored of Canada? I think so. " |
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it seems kind of obvious, but apparently it needs to be said. |
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did anyone get that weird mail from steedie? |
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i remembered this one in particular, they were right too, it was crap. Incredibly messy new album from Michael Fackesch and Chris De Luca, making that ‘difficult’ transition to more adult-orientated acoustic electronica. It’s a sanitised, sterile version of what fat studio executives imagine leftfield music must sound like. Vocal contributions come from Lamb’s Louise Rhodes, Tes and some newcommers who give it their best shot, but the over-production and lack of new ideas is somehow hugely irritating and present throughout each of the 14 tracks on offer. The album veers from re-configuerd digi-hiphopisms, to “mature” and endlessly pretentious downtempo studio pieces giving it the acoustic treatment with all the raw emotion and integrity you could expect from someone like Seal or the aforementioned Finley Quaye. The cd comes with a glossy postcard for each of the tracks on board, shame that the extravagence didn’t stretch to accommodate some new ideas or a desire to take music further out and into new terrain. “Disconnected” is the perfect album to grow old to, thrusting you into middle age with the safety of dull, famililiar surroundings while giving you the feeling that you’re still somehow in the know. Excellent artwork though. |
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oh, i forgot to put: Funkstorung - Disconnected. |
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ok i take back what i said : ) |
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You were right though. I think it was dog_belch who said when Boomkat criticises something you know it is personal. |
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i like: "people who bought this also bought..." never seen this work as perfect as on this site... i dislike: just creditcards accepted (innit?) +samples could be longer or taken from the middle of the track great mailorder for great music but i only order there if i cant find it in germany and then i have to bugger someone with a creditcard... |
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i didn't like last bonobo and boc. must be i have same taste as whoever writes those reviews. |
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It'll be more than one person I assume. It's really nothing to do with taste either, the reviews just list a number of generally agreed presumptions about a release and exaggerate them, always in a positive way. |
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"i have to bugger someone with a creditcard"... You do know what "bugger" means, don't you? Please tell me its a mistake and you don't fuck arses for vinyl. |
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hahahahah, that leads me to a question... IF fucking arses would be the only way to get vinyl... would you do it? |
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Free vinyl can only be a good thing. |
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