Topic: The Music Thread

Has anyone else heard Deathprod's 'Occulting Disk' yet? If so, what are your thoughts and feelings about the record? What would Deathprod afficionados recommend from his early catalogue? Or, what is a good record for a new fan to start with?

@kyleforrester87 Do you like any Bossk? If not, I would highly recommend them to you because you're a post rock fan. Start with I, then II, then finish with Audio Noir and you'll have heard all their stuff. If you don't like I, then feel free to move on. Let me know what you think if you do check them out.

One of my favourite songs, such a chilled out vibe with amazing singing and production.

If you haven't heard any of Frank Ocean and like this song I heavily recommend to listen to his albums Blonde and Channel Orange.

One of the greatest songs of all time for me from my favourite band.

@Solea What are you listening to these days? I'm digging John Zorn's Painkiller project on vinyl. I've also been listening to earlier Deathprod stuff on Spotify, do you think you will explore his back catalogue as well?

Hey everyone. If you haven't had a look yet, please go and vote in the Push Square community run screenshot of the year competition, there are a few hours left for the public vote and you can find all of the pictures and information in the forum post 😁

Every year I spend hours crafting a pointless best music of whatever year it is playlist on Spotify that is like 14 hours long. So if you have 14 hours spare and your taste in music is exactly the same as mine then you'll like this. Pretty specific demographic, all told.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ucyb5kzqmdxIFtftdHQFW?si=5...

@Solea Thanks, I'll be sure to pick up John Zorn's split with Napalm Death. Did he do anything else with them?

Any other Nels Cline fans on here? Besides Dirty Baby, the Andrew Hill album, Lovers, Currents, Constellations, the John Coltrane covers album and Destroy All Nels Cline, what are the best albums from his diverse catalog? (Vinyl is preferable.)

Also, can anyone recommend any other free jazz guitarists? (I like Sonny Sharrock and Otomo Yoshihide besides him.)

@Kidfried OMG YES I adore her music! MAGDALENE is one of my favourite albums of the year.

And Frank and Radiohead definitely make my top 5 for sure, what else you into?

I am a huge Suffocation fan, I want to know are any of their post-Doug Cerrito albums worth buying? Edit: Recently I've been listening to a lot of non-metal stuff. Gary Clark Jr. is excellent.

Edit: I have now more or less given up on rock and it's related sub-genres altogether, save for the sound of the electric guitar on some jazz recordings. Has anyone else made a complete left-turn and sacrificed the music of their yesteryear for something new and intriguing?

What is everyone's top 10 albums of the 2010s?

My top ten:

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
2. Blonde - Frank Ocean
3. Flowerboy - Tyler, The Creator
4. IGOR - Tyler, The Creator
5. Currents - Tame Impala
6. A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
7. Yeezus - Kanye West
8. Lemonade - Beyonce
9. The Life Of Pablo - Kanye West
10. Once in a Long, Long While... - Low Roar

Honourable Mentions: TPAB (Kendrick Lamar), Channel Orange (Frank Ocean), 22 A Million (Bon Iver), Magdalene (FKA Twigs), Multi Love (Unknown Mortal Orchestra), Lonerism (Tame Impala), ANTI (Rihanna), Melodrama (Lorde), Ye (Kanye West), KSG (Kanye West & Others), 2014 Forest Hills Drive (J Cole), Anima (Thom Yorke), Assume Form (James Blake).

@DonJorginho Ooh, not done one of these yet.

1. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
2. Minecraft: Volume Alpha - C418 (yes really)
3. Time n Place - Kero Kero Bonito
4. 무너지기 (Crumbling) - Mid-Air Thief
5. Come In - Weatherday
6. Visions - Grimes
7. Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides - SOPHIE
8. Leak 04-13 - Jai Paul
9. Replica - Oneohtrix Point Never
10. Igor - Tyler the Creator

Shoutout to Orpheus by Hermit and the Recluse, Bonito Generation by KKB and Magdalene by FKA Twigs, who just missed out.

@nessisonett My honourable mentions were TPAB, Magdalene, 21 A Million, Multilove and Anti.

Your list is great, respect the C418 Soundtrack as that is amazing.

@LN78 Never been a big fan of Oasis but Definitely Maybe is a great album. WTSMG has a few truly great songs but it’s not as consistent. I’m more of a Pulp and Blur fan when it comes to Britpop but it’s not exactly the most coherent genre considering those 3 bands aren’t massively similar other than the fact they’re English.

@DonJorginho I really do not listen to enough albums to justify putting together a top 10, but I can say that my personal favourite would be Jessie J's R.O.S.E. I doubt I'll find any people who share the same view here, considering it appears everyone's music tastes are dramatically different than mine! I suppose female pop is not the norm here, haha. Just an incredible album with all memorable songs that fit together really well. Great themes throughout with top notch production and vocals. It's definitely the album I've listened to that I come back to most often.

@Tjuz Female pop’s perfectly acceptable, Grimes, FKA Twigs, Lana Del Rey etc. I just don’t think I’d give a Jessie J album a go because I still remember her music from back in the day, which is rather bad of me. Maybe I’ll like it, eh?

@nessisonett That's understandable. I personally love her music from back in the day as well, but in all fairness, the album R.O.S.E. is entirely different. It's with a new label and everything, and even touches on the struggles she had with her old label to make the music she really wanted to make. It's very much R&B rather than the pop she's known for, and unlike her old music, it feels like it's coming straight from the heart. I'd recommend giving it a shot since it's so different! You might be able to enjoy her new sound if you enjoy simplistic production with a focus on vocals.

Did my own edit of one of my favourite Kanye leaks, Cash To Burn

Changes:

• Mixing Changes
• Rearranged how the song is laid out
• Incorporated parts of each version to leak so far
• Added some little bits to the instrumental to flesh it out

Let me know what you think! I do a lot of these edits and do my own beats so might post more in future.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QktFjVfNLGtoyEadc4zOWa1zzBYB...

@Kidfried I do loads of it, I just love making music and make my own stuff too, I use Logic Pro X on my mac in my own studio in my bedroom, luckily my room is big enough to have walk in wardrobe that serves as a booth to record, then have a quarter of the room dedicated to the work desk to do the actually programming and keyboard playing, then sit on the couch and plug it into to my surround to hear how it all sounds.

I just am passionate for music and creating my own stuff, I usually do a lot of audio cutting, EQ mixing, using my keyboard to sample, and include parts of my own sounds into the music to make it really sound new.