Please Recommend Quality Drone

Started by Andrew McIntosh, August 16, 2013, 09:30:36 AM

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jesusfaggotchrist

Quote from: Zeno Marx on September 10, 2013, 08:28:24 PM
How's the Yen Pox - Blood Music 2CD remaster?  A flawless album in its original form.  He moved to a more plastic sound, and I was wondering if the remaster/remix represents that.


just got it today, haven't given it a full listen.

pentd

matt brislawn = brizbomb = hypnotic analog/modular monotones, at times quite thick and heavy. also excellent field recordings

once again i recommend jonatan liljedahl / kymatica, amazing electronix

jesusfaggotchrist

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Where martial ambience meets drone devotional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6HsWQeJlzk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Another good example is Nekyia with their works 'Alchemalady' and 'Attuner Of The Spheres'

Cym


jvc

Not "pure" drone as it has a lot of melodic/harmonic progression, but I've been enjoying Finnish (mainly black metal project) Jumalhämärä's Resitaali-LP a lot and it might be of interest to drone-minded listeners. Waves of pump organ/harmonium droning sound transport at least Scandinavian listeners to their primary school childhood. Abstractly devotional atmosphere.

Only online sample I've found: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18100769/Jumalhamara_Resitaali_sample.mp3

Zeno Marx

Troum - Mare Idiophonika 2010

Are there any other Troum releases like this?  The tribal drumming does it for me.
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.

jadderly

Here are some of my favorites that I don't think were mentioned thus far:

Alan Lamb: Night Passage

Rafael Toral: Violence of Discovery

Aloof Proof: Piano Text

Bloated Slutbag

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Quote from: Zeno Marx on February 10, 2014, 04:46:47 AM
Troum - Mare Idiophonika 2010

Are there any other Troum releases like this?  The tribal drumming does it for me.

Possibly the lengthy, closing, Troum offering on their split/collab with Christian Renou. Though I'd guess you'd already have that. The said offering deals suitably climactic drama to a release that surprises in its soundtrack-y aspirations.

Part 3 of the Tjukurrpa trilogy Rhythms And Pulsations would be the other obvious contender though perhaps only a couple tracks approach the sound you seek. (Still the full trilogy ranks among my favored Troums.) Tribal drumming does seem to be cropping up with increasing regularity in the more recent Troum discography, though again not in a way that dominates a la Mare Idiophonika.

Rhythms (or pulsations) in general certainly feature big in the Troum oeuvre, particularly the more "primitive" sounding recordings to which I gravitate, though these rhythms -better: throbs - are often well submerged and are as likely, to my ear, to contain martial or industrial elements as they are something more tribal. When I'm not reminded of the early, dirgier, CMI catalog, or the more amorphous, oversaturated, S-Core efforts, I hear Vivenza - that name again! - if one were to take the concrete factory machinations, massively overdrive the bass, and smooth everything out into, dark, saturated,  throb-ient, dream textures. (Dreaming Muzak, from 2006, could serve as Troumified outtake from JM's Aerobruitisme Dynamique, but I digress.)

Into this general sphere I'd spin a couple reissues:

Darvê Sh / Ajin
Autopoiesis / Nahtscato

And:

Kapotte Muziek
Framaþeis/ Vār
Ryna

Maeror Tri did this - "primitive, overdriven, throbbient" - from time to time, perhaps increasingly, and rather naturally I suppose, toward the end – check the two part Hypnotikum swansong.
Someone weaker than you should beat you and brag
And take you for a drag

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Quote from: Bloated Slutbag on March 05, 2014, 04:21:11 AM
Quote from: Zeno Marx on February 10, 2014, 04:46:47 AM
Troum - Mare Idiophonika 2010

Are there any other Troum releases like this?  The tribal drumming does it for me.

Part 3 of the Tjukurrpa trilogy Rhythms And Pulsations would be the other obvious contender though perhaps only a couple tracks approach the sound you seek. (Still the full trilogy ranks among my favored Troums.) Tribal drumming does seem to be cropping up with increasing regularity in the more recent Troum discography, though again not in a way that dominates a la Mare Idiophonika.

This, and also the subsequent two parts of the "Power Romantic" trilogy: "Grote Mandrenke" and "Mare Morphosis". However, they are more post-rock influenced, and Tjukurrpa III is still superior in every way. ...Certain tracks off "Eald-Ge-Streon" might be of interest too.

Zeno Marx

Thanks for all the Troum recommendations.
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.

anomalie

Troum is awesome.

Need to mention this one Sigqan (Transgredient Records).


Zeno Marx

Anyone been following the Important/Bertoia Kickstarter campaign?  The bullshit of Kickstarter aside, some good information there.  Also looks like they're planning to sell the box set for $100; nice price for 11 albums of material.  They met their goal, so I'll be really curious to see what that buys them insofar as a transfer station.  They can't buy their own hardware?
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.


Andrew McIntosh

Quote from: Zeno Marx on March 04, 2015, 09:06:47 PMAnyone been following the Important/Bertoia Kickstarter campaign?

Just getting the email updates. I'm all for it, although I'm going to wait until the box set comes out before I start laying money down. There's some cassette of "unreleased" material available too, somehow, if you donate enough. I just hope the packaging isn't like the Eleh releases, where you almost have to damage the cd to pry it out of the damn envelope.
Shikata ga nai.

Zeno Marx

Vance Orchestra...

They tend to be associated with ambient, though they're more of the experimental type than tonal minimalists.  Their track on Bunker Archeology is good, and the Drone Records 7" is also good.  Can anyone recommend anything else from them?
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.