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Who I am, and how I came to be
| Who I am, and how I came to be | |
| Created by: | chimp_and_zee |
| Tracks: | 6 |
| Length: | 00:21:30 |
| Keywords |
1. nostalgia 2. sentimental 3. growing |
| Created on | 7/22/06 09:39am |
| Level | 7 |
| Points | 3389 |
| Total visitors | 182 |
| Unique visitors | 81 |
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*WARNING!!*ACHTUNG!!*ATTENTION!!*
Please don't rate this mixtape on the tracks it contains, but understand that these songs all have an enourmous signifigance for me in how they changed the way I thought about music and in a way, how I go about my life in general. These are the songs that birthed my love for hearing new sounds, the songs that birthed my love with DIY ethics, the songs that made me shrug off the people that dragged me down and made me take control of myself and be independant. Here are the songs that birthed my love with music in so many forms, and made me who I am today.
Please don't rate this mixtape on the tracks it contains, but understand that these songs all have an enourmous signifigance for me in how they changed the way I thought about music and in a way, how I go about my life in general. These are the songs that birthed my love for hearing new sounds, the songs that birthed my love with DIY ethics, the songs that made me shrug off the people that dragged me down and made me take control of myself and be independant. Here are the songs that birthed my love with music in so many forms, and made me who I am today.
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| 1 | Saetia : Venus And Bacchus |
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This is it, this is where it all began for me. I remember sort of just starting to look for new music, check o [...]
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Track 15 from A Retrospective
Length: 00:03:19 Year: 2001 |
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This is it, this is where it all began for me. I remember sort of just starting to look for new music, check out what I could, and I was cruising fourfa.com or something back then, and for some reason this band's name stuck with me, and I couldnt remember any numbers, so I typed it into Kazaa or whatever I was using at the time, and this was the only result that came up, anyway, by the time it had finished it was pretty late, and I didn't have the time to listen to it, along with a few other things, so I burnt them all to a CD. It was the first day of work experiance the next morning (this program we all had to go throuhg in our 4th year of high-school, I got some crappy primary school and it was a massive walk), and so I slapped my new mix in the CD walkman (still have it, 3 years on, and it still works great) and made the walk there. It was the first track on the mix, but the intro wasnt doing anything for me at the time, so I just skipped past it and listened to the other stuff. However, in some late-night slip, I'd put the track on twice and it came along about 20 minutes later or something, and I thought "what the hell, I'll sit it out". I then listened to that one track, over and over for the next 2 weeks, nothing else. Prior to hearing it, I hated crappy production and screaming in songs, and this had both, but it didn't matter. Hell, it's still some of the worst screaming vocals I can think off (yeah, so sue me), but they just stuck with me. There was something about this song, it was just so... raw, yet somehow honest and passionate, and it birthed my love for music, my realisation that I'll probably get the most satisfaction out of music I have to hunt down to hear, and I can all track it down to just the one line, which was when it really hit me. "The dance, flesh on flesh, has rendered us blind" Best band ever? Best song ever? Hardly, but it doesnt make it any less special. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Circle Takes the Square : Same Shade as Concrete |
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I’m not sure exactly when I first heard this song, but I know it was some time after Saetia, and some t [...]
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Track 2 from As the Roots Undo
Length: 00:04:28 Year: 2004 |
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I’m not sure exactly when I first heard this song, but I know it was some time after Saetia, and some time before I went to see The Mae-Shi, but I do know that this was all I had by them for a while. I checked these guys out after seening a flyer that said “Labelmates with Circle Takes The Square†and I sort of deducted from this that Circle Takes The Square must have been good or something for them to throw such a loose link between the two bands, so I fired up the old P2P to see what I could find, and got this and I didn’t know what to make of it. At the time, it was uter chaos, but in the best and most structured way possible. It just seemed to jump out of my speakers, and attack me before then apologizing and whispering sweet nothings into my ear, only so it could get close and start thrashing me into submission again. I had never heard anything like this, I couldn’t draw any comparisons to anything in any of it, it was something so unique to me, like some kind of rare diamond that shone and sparkled with creativity and passion. The song just seemed to ooze both of these qualities, things I had been looking for and craving. I wanted something pure and raw, but ultimately honest and forward thinking, and I discovered Circle Takes The Square. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Explosions In The Sky... : Snow and Lights |
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So in trying out new music, something that appeared to be hip and cool was this whole “post-rock†[...]
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Track 2 from How Strange, Innocence
Length: 00:08:17 Year: 2000 |
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So in trying out new music, something that appeared to be hip and cool was this whole “post-rock†thing, and while I could never manage to download any GYBE as the tracks were too long for my 56k connection, I did manage to get ahold of some ETIS. This was another totally new thing for me, as the only other instrumental music I’d come across was referred to as Jazz or Classical and at the time, found both tedious and boring. This was different though, it had edge and bite, but also a sort of beautiful glimmering sorrow to it. I sometimes feel that if it wasn’t this song that I heard first as a taste of post rock, it would have taken me a long time to get into it. For a start, it kicked in with something filthy and distorted quick enough, and had enough speed to make me interested from the start, and the strange, slightly off discords in the guitar break that follows intrigued me even more. Then these huge lo-fi drums kicked in, with their thumping bass drum and the strange hissing ride cymbal just floating over the top of everything. It was awe inspiring stuff, music on a huge grandiose scale I’d never encountered before, while at the same time, being so simple and easy to grasp, and essentially, so easy to listen to. Then it really got exciting. I could feel it building up and I went tingly all over, I knew something was coming but I just didn’t know what. Then those drums kicked in. It felt like some sort of storm, thundering away in the distance, not quite out of sight, and fucking loud, loud enough to make you worry even though you knew you weren’t going to get hit by lightning, and the guitars felt like rain, beating down on me, while I crammed my hands in my pockets and the bass was my feet as I scrambled home, eager to get out of the cold. Music had never made me voluntarily conjur up images like these before, and the fact that this is what I was thinking off without stimulus made me feel great, like I’d discovered some kind of super power or something, and I felt fucking great. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | The Mae-Shi : Born For A Short Time |
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So, after a year or so of being the kind of music fan with a modem and some p2p software for a year or so, I d [...]
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Track 2 from Heartbeeps
Length: 00:01:04 Year: 2005 |
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So, after a year or so of being the kind of music fan with a modem and some p2p software for a year or so, I decided that I was going to go out and try and see some gigs and the Mae-Shi were the first band I ever went to see in a DIY enviroment. Really, it should have been Transistor Transistor, but at the time I was still self-concious and didn't want to go to any gigs by myself, and I only went along to this, because a friend's band was playing so three of us went along. The other two did not enjoy them atall but I was love struck. The angular sounds jerking and thrusting themselves out of the speakers and the sparse audience, who were dwarfed by the size of the notably small venue, pulling and contorting themselves into shapes in this kind of free form dance, where it just didn't matter, so long as it felt good. I joined in, and afterwards my two friends asked "What was all that dancing about man? You looked like a twat!", I just smiled, because it didn't matter, it was the most fun I'd ever had. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Orchid : Le Descordre Cest Moi |
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Maybe a month or two passed between seeing the Mae Shi and my next DIY outing, which was to see The Fiction. P [...]
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Track 1 from Chaos Is Me
Length: 00:01:58 Year: 0000 |
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Maybe a month or two passed between seeing the Mae Shi and my next DIY outing, which was to see The Fiction. Personally, while I thought they were ok, they didn’t make that much of an impact on me, but they did have one absolutely enormous distro with them, and inside it were hundreds of bands I’d never heard of, one band I had heard of though, but not heard yet, were Orchid. I had never come across anything by Orchid atall, so at the time I thought it was rare or something (hah!) and snapped it up. It cost me £6, and I didn’t even have a record player yet, but I had just sat some exams, and I had kind of managed to kid my parents that I had revised really hard, and then I pulled one on them and threw their “It’s the effort that counts†comment right back at them, and since I come from a pretty middle-class suburban family, I was to get a reward for my exams. Two weeks or so passed maybe before I finally got the turntable, and all this time I had been yearning to play that prize possesion of mine that was my first vinyl record, and then I finally got to listen to it. My dad tought me about setting speeds on the record player, how to set up the weight on the arm properly, how to tell where the gaps between tracks were, and finally, how to drop the needle onto the record itself. I don’t think there could have been a more perfect record for a my first as I had no idea what Orchid sounded like atall, and this intro just escalated the tension even more, bringing me to some kind of anticipation climax and then “CLING!â€. A smack of the ride bell and it all errupted. “Are you sure you’re playing this at the right speed?†“I don’t know dad, but it still love it†(I was, just so you know) SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Raein : The King Is Dead |
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It think two gigs or so passed after The Fiction and then this one was up next. Raein with Louise Cyphre. I ha [...]
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Track 2 from Il N'y A Pass De Orchestre
Length: 00:02:24 Year: 2003 |
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It think two gigs or so passed after The Fiction and then this one was up next. Raein with Louise Cyphre. I hadn’t heard either of the bands atall, but a few people were talking about it on an internet message board, and saying how amazing this one was going to be. I was really eager to go to this, I had the feeling it was going to be really, really good, but I couldn’t find anyone to go with. Also, to make matters worse my friend was throwing a party at her house, and a lot of people I wasn’t that keen on were going to be there, tripping over themselves and being cunts in the way only underage drunks can be and I really didn’t want to go. So basically, that clinched it, I was going to go to this gig, even if I had nobody to go with and it didn’t matter. It was pretty packed in comparison to my experience of DIY gigs around Edinburgh and there was some weird anticipation in the air as Raein took to the stage. They tuned up, I shuffled a bit closer to the front, in want of a good view, then they checked levels, I moved a bit closer to the centre, then they started to play. Everyone went crazy in a way I’d never known before. Arms pointing to the sky, spasaming in time to the furious drumming and it felt less like a room full of people, more like one enormous shapless mass throbbing and pulsing with the music. I’m not sure when they played this song exactly, maybe third or forth if I was to take a guess, possibly even second, but I think it was quite early, but it stuck out the most by far. Those unaccompanied drums thrashing out as a man I was almost face to face with screamed into a microphone with this kind of energy I had never felt before. He was living for this moment, this was everything to him, it was everything to all of us, we were all living for it together, and I realised in those few seconds that it was within rooms like these, with these people, wheter I knew their names or the ney new mine, or neither of us knew either, that I would have some of the best times of my life. SHOW LESS
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Wow, the description for Venus and Bacchus is just, wow. I think it was exactly the same for me. I despised anything with screaming or bad production, but when I first head it, I was blown away. Great mix.
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