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| rubez |
tried to bump an old thread, said i didn't have permission :o
been listening to this recently... got to say, it stands up today very nicely - 12 years old. a mighty fine artist album.
seems everyone was banging on about bloodlock in its day, but i don't care for it. seems like a cheap andy moor warble affair - may be the weakest on the album.
this track though, i have had on repeat - seems to have gotten no love - it's ing sublime!
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| Vector A |
Yeah, I still listen to tracks off this one. That pad sound on the end of "Golden Arm" and beginning of "Wavy Gravy" is beautiful.
At some point I came across the origin of the album's title, from Macbeth:
| quote: | This is the very painting of your fear:
This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,
Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,
Impostors to true fear, would well become
A woman's story at a winter's fire,
Authorized by her grandam. |
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| Kilixpree |
oh lol, tbh bloodlock was always my fav track of the album, with mr tiddles tt
whatever, love this album. The ambient/sublime/proggy fusion is something special.
and looks like back in the day djs don't used to play tracks of this album. why? (with exceptions, ofc) |
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| Guest |
| rubez really liking Golden Arm. Never heard it before. Can hear bits and pieces from the Xpander LP in there. |
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| Lews |
| Go listen to the whole album right now, Mark :mad: |
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| Innocence Lost |
| Thankfully the whole album was cut down for stems to make remixes, thanks to sasha. Wavy Gravy is my fav track to remix and its really simple. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kilixpree
oh lol, tbh bloodlock was always my fav track of the album, with mr tiddles tt
whatever, love this album. The ambient/sublime/proggy fusion is something special.
and looks like back in the day djs don't used to play tracks of this album. why? (with exceptions, ofc) |
To me Airdrawndagger is mostly headphone music, I wouldn't play the tracks out either. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
I've played Wavy Gravy out before.
At the time this album was something of a critical and commercial disappointment. Sasha had been "making" this album for the best part of a decade to the point it had become a running joke, especially as he often blamed no-shows at clubs on being locked in the studio working on an album that never materialised. The album could never live up to that level of expectation. |
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| evo8 |
I think it will go down as a masterpiece - such a lush sounding record. The way Golden Arm runs into Wavy Gravy is beautiful
I actually really liked Bloodlock, has that trademark early 00s Holden sound |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I've played Wavy Gravy out before.
At the time this album was something of a critical and commercial disappointment. Sasha had been "making" this album for the best part of a decade to the point it had become a running joke, especially as he often blamed no-shows at clubs on being locked in the studio working on an album that never materialised. The album could never live up to that level of expectation. |
I didn't really get it at all initially either, but now I find myself listening to it far more often than most other albums released around that time. |
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| Kilixpree |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I've played Wavy Gravy out before.
At the time this album was something of a critical and commercial disappointment. Sasha had been "making" this album for the best part of a decade to the point it had become a running joke, especially as he often blamed no-shows at clubs on being locked in the studio working on an album that never materialised. The album could never live up to that level of expectation. |
Interesting (I already had read some reviews @discogs and yeah, looks like it was hardly criticized). But i had in my mind that this happened because the album is more a fusion of ambient/proggy/sublime sounds, and maybe people was expecting just progressive (like what holden did in his early 2000'ish releases).
Whatever, i agree: the album is more 'headphone music', not too much club friendly. But some tracks work well in sets, as fillers or openers. I just consider weird that almost every track in the 'Xpander' EP were heavily played by djs back in the day, and 'Airdrawndagger' don't (actually not that weird, 'xpander' is a lot better, but love boths so...). |
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| Lagrangian |
Mighty fine? :stongue:
Honky. |
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