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check it and hollah back :) |
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more like EP |
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20 tracks, 37 minutes.. maaaybe, its officially an album tho ;( |
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it's officially fucking horrible, thanks for this |
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Great news that it's back from the MP3 pressing plant and that the album is officially launched on the label "My own website", those shakey pictures of the mock up album sleeve are also great. |
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its pressed in 50000 copies dog_belch and is shipped worldwide today. |
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That's right, dear. |
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please give a track-by-review of this album, i want a classic dog_belch moment right in my livingroom (which is not a livingroom). |
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i cant stop to laugh |
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Lydia by Coax Finally released worldwide in a modest edition of 50,000 copies, Coax's latest retail release album "Lydia", is both an artistic triumph and an almost "punk rock" approach to light cod-classical, packing 20 whole into a mere 37 massive minutes. Think of Drukqs without the good tracks. "Norweigen Blood Waltz", the deceptively titled opening track, is a waltz. Syntethic strings tethered to a traditional structure boldly announce that this album could possibly be much like the muzak you hear in supermarkets, or even a collection of those well-loved demo tracks that come with new synthesizers. Either way, the listener knows that their hard spent Euro's on this commercially released album on a real label, have not been wasted in vain. Second track, "Paris", is like incidental music from an episode of "Cheers", perhaps the one where "Coach" (no relation) died. At 1:41 it's over before you can say "Why am I listening to this?". But then track three gives you back this opportunity as it's almost exactly the same. This goes for the remaing 17 tracks, apart from the ones that sound like the first track. "Amelie" is the sound of someone idly playing the piano. "Solitude" is the sound of someone playing the piano, possibly on their own. "Hello There" addresses the standard set by Squarepusher's "Hello Everything" by simply playing the piano again. "Clocks" as the title might suggest, has little to do with clocks, but it does have a fairly steady rhythm and I found myself looking at a clock waiting for it to finish. "Theme for Isolde" conjurs all the mystery and intrigue of Isolde, all that we can possibly know of Isolde is contained in the strings and deftly caressed piano, which is bugger all. "Waltz of the North" takes us back to budget supermarket Lidl where we stock up on Greek toilet paper and watered down orange coloured juice. The bombast of the crashing cymbals echoes round the roo |
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... The bombast of the crashing cymbals echoes round the room as I hit the "Next" button. As the remaing tracks plink on and on, you get a sense of the suffocating atmosphere of being trapped in Coax's bedroom as he insists on playing these harmless, yet insufferable and interminable vignettes. The 37 minutes, appearing so brief at the outset, now looms long and arduous. You look at the track counter and check your pulse as you get set to put up with another 5 tracks. And in they come, tiddly dee.. conjuring images as diverse as a piano, someone playing the piano, the toilet bleach aisle, incidental music in a TV programme about jam production in Dusseldorf, and someone playing a keyboard. Available worldwide on the *cough cough mumble mumble* label, this album is an ESSENTIAL purchase if you run a Shopping Mall, you commission music for Film & Arts or you'd just listen to anything. |
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lol :( |
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lydia is out! |
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hahahhahh thank you so much |
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Checking this out after the comments you made on my work, thanks again! |
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lol, I quite like it despite what dog belch said. I noticed the digipak: are you signed or did you just get it manufactured nicely? |
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thanks! self released.. my parents did it.. 500 copies atm :s |
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ok, i don't want to be horrible, but really this is absolutely fucking shite. I listened to Multiples by Keith Fullerton-Whitman earlier today. Go and listen to I think track 4, the yamaha disklavier piano track, then listen to this EP, then perhaps apologise to your parents for wasting their money. Perhaps that's a harsh comparison, but tough, that's what my brain/ears combo had to endure, so why should I be alone in that. I'm going to go and listen to Hergest Ridge and Incantations to try and purge my brain of this. Sorry to be quite negative, but I don't lie to people. |
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"its pressed in 50000 copies dog_belch and is shipped worldwide today." "self released.. my parents did it.. 500 copies atm :s" ..something ain't right here |
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This can only be explained by the paradoxical phenomena that cx is in fact his own dupe. |
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dave thats one of my favorite tracks.. thanks for your honesty though. |
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guys, you gotta remember that this (at least what he's given us on internets) is FREE, it's not as though you've wasted money on this. ok, you may have wasted a bit of time, but to be honest I don't find that that matters. I spend a lot of time going thru stuff that I find shit. |
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Oh that makes it perfectly alright then. BEST ALBUM EVER. Come on Mr and Mrs Coax, only another 49,500 CD-Rs to burn. |
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you may spend a lot of time sifting through shit, but do you have to enjoy it? |
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I like this album because theres nothing wrong with it. I downloaded it, listened to it, and enjoyed what it set out to convey. cx obviously put effort into this, but at the first sign of his excitement you beat him down. I think thats a bit rude. and dog belch, you're as heartless as you are humorous :p |
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Excellent review! I think you are very, very brave. |
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please pick on someone your own size ill dl |
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I thought I'd suffered no damaging side effects as a consequence of listening to the globally available, commercial release "Lydia". My hearing seemed fine, ability to concentrate unaffected, full control retained of bowels, no perceptible alteration of mood. But I did just found out that listening to 20 inoffensive piano musings, sprinkled with cheap wedding style synth waltzes, has rendered me impotent. |
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i think it's pretty cute, the sounds aren't too great, even the piano sounds a bit muffled, is the piano live? |
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not live no, all on the computer. |
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:s |
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well, at least it's a tad better then the trance shit you spammed here earlier. |
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which song was that again? |
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Ok, for reasons I'm not going into, I was in a terrible mood yesterday, so my comments were perhaps a bit harsh. I've listened to some of it again and it's not that bad but it's really not that good either. I just find it so bland and generic, but I guess not everyone has the same tastes. Good luck with it anyway. |
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I wouldn't worry about it, with cx's shit hot marketing this baby will have already sold out and c0ax's retired to the Bahamas to get his head together to write "Lydia II", with a filler of "Lydia Outtakes" relpackaged with the original "Lydia" around Christmas. |
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Yeah.. Well I can say that my favorite tracks are clocks, isolde, waltz of the north, dreamer, highworth road and alice. In retrospect I do want to change a lot on the album, but I'd keep those songs the same. |
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I had a listen to the album in its entirety. I think there's promise in here; moments were enjoyable (for example, "Norwegian Blood Waltz") in the same way a happy Nintendo tune might be, which is no bad thing (some videogame music is most excellentey). It's when it takes itself too seriously, maybe, that things become less enjoyable. Also, I really think that in general it's best to use a real piano and real strings with capable instrumentalists if you're going to do music like this. Don't give up, though.! I've heard some other stuff you've been up to, including that collaboration with another forum memeber, and that material was pretty damn good great. |
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you build a theme well, and the timing of the notes sounds right... but the melody never crystallizes. there's no hook to it. practice making much shorter melodies before you try to stretch your skills over the long ones. |
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i never meant for it to take itself too seriously.. which songs would you say do that? and yeah i agree with you about the real instrument thing, although i've been such a fan of orchestral and piano stuff for so long i wanted to make it myself. just wanted to capture a mood, with the waltzes especially. i know people will automatically take it less seriously if they think im trying to emulate, which im not, just capturing a moment i had when making it.. what im working on atm will be all synths and drum machines though, ill go back to piano after awhile. chaos; thanks.. yeah hooks are damn hard to do hehe.. ill work on that though. |
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who said synths, drum machines AND piano couldn't work together? try recording some live piano and glitching it out, it's great. |
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