So I made an album...

Stitch on 1/8/2006 at 14:49

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Shut up and keep animating Flash cartoons, you cretin!

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I got bored halfway through the second track and switched to some Tom Waits.

My first reaction to these tunes was "well those are a nice textures but how about you actually turn them into songs?" Guess I was hoping for more Kevin Shields and less ambient drone.

BUT

Music like this needs to be absorbed properly and I have not yet given it that chance! Ambient isn't really my cup of tea and as such it will take a little longer for me to accept these songs on their own terms.

Also: As honored as I would be to have a physical copy of this CD, given my location I'm perfectly content with my downloaded version. Any chance you'll toss up a higher resolution version of the cover with liner notes, Noid?

Para?noid on 1/8/2006 at 15:07

Ton: Holy shit! Google Image Search Kru.

Henke, Trev, Stitch: The thing is, this isn't meant to be the kind of music that you sit down and listen to; at least, that's not my goal. dvrabel put it nicely when he said that it's the perfect complement to something like programming; the music, as I said earlier, just kind of hangs around in it's own sound world- unobtrusive, but still very much there.

I make this kind of music because I want something quiet in the background as I drift off to sleep. You (well, I) can't fall asleep listening to pop, or rock. You're not really meant to pay attention to the full peice. You just put it on and let it drift around to augment the mood. I see these tracks more like paintings and guestures rather than songs and I plan to keep it that way.

Oh, I don't know, none that really means anything. I just really like this kind of music and that's that I guess

Anyway, this is basically the inside: (http://www.cherrycolouredfunk.co.uk/stuff/spread.pdf)

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Any chance you'll toss up a higher resolution version of the cover with liner notes, Noid?

Carini on 1/8/2006 at 15:38

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the music, as I said earlier, just kind of hangs around in it's own sound world- unobtrusive, but still very much there.

This is going to sound a bit flighty but here goes.

I listened to this on my bike into work today and I kept it at a level that wasn't too loud but loud enough where I could hear it fine and still hear the world around me. I noticed that depending on what was near while I was riding (landscapers, construction, traffic) the sounds of the real world goings on mixed with Noid's "ambient music" and created a music in of itself.

Para?noid on 1/8/2006 at 16:17

Quote Posted by Carini

This is going to sound a bit flighty but here goes.

I listened to this on my bike into work today and I kept it at a level that wasn't too loud but loud enough where I could hear it fine and still hear the world around me. I noticed that depending on what was near while I was riding (landscapers, construction, traffic) the sounds of the real world goings on mixed with the Noid's "ambient music" and created a music in of itself.

It's funny you mention that, because that is exactly why Brian Eno developed and popularised ambient music in the first place. The story goes that he was quite ill after a car accident, tucked away in bed in a weakened state when a friend arrived and brought him a crappy transistor radio for him to hear some music. He or she, however left the volume too low and within the hour one of the speakers failed. Brian was unable to correct this, and laid in bed listening to the faint sounds of classical music merging together with the world outside his window - birds, wind through the trees, e.t.c. The two complemented each other perfectly.

Matthew on 1/8/2006 at 17:55

Noid, I'm liking this so far. If there's still a copy without anyone's name attached, I wouldn't mind getting one (I could forward postage cost to NI also).

SubJeff on 1/8/2006 at 18:19

Yes.

But what about all your other stuff Noid? I know (from IRC) that you don't always rate your own releases (seemingly a while after you release them) but I think you have quite a back catalogue that you could, at least, take a selection of and put out in CD form. Noids greatest hits or something.

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Although you may balk at the idea, to my mind Reticulum is just screaming for some kind of ambient breakbeat going on in the background.

Seconding. But only because I know you can do some nice whacky breakbeat-bass combos that would fit. Not your average beats'n' bass man, man.

doctorfrog on 1/8/2006 at 18:58

If anyone has a better handle on the scene than I, they can write up a better artist bio for Endlessly on Last.fm:
(http://www.last.fm/music/endlessly/+wiki?action=edit)

I've kept it strictly impersonal as I'm not sure how noid would welcome a bio, or links to his downloads.

Incidentally, Last.fm released a pretty neat new player app, available (http://www.last.fm/tools/downloads/) here. Lots of nifty new features. Be warned, though: installing the newest Last.fm Audioscrobbler plugin for your music playing app will require the Last.fm to run in the background, in addition to your music player.

(and yes, paz, it was intentional.)

Paz on 1/8/2006 at 19:13

I have no idea if it was intentional, but this line is lollin' (leave it like that!)

"A collaboration between two artists, Endlessly's first EP, Oroborus, was recorded in the library at Highbullen, which is a library."

sp4f on 1/8/2006 at 21:37

I too would love an original Noid CD :).

Mainly listening to it on a loop while I poke at things in Photoshop and think, awesomely suited for this it is.

Jonesy on 2/8/2006 at 01:55

Noid, you an' I have somewhat similar music interests, but I didn't think I would like this.

Man, I was wrong. Good album. :thumb: