Tim Hecker - Infinity Pool (OST)

  On 2/2/2023 at 1:11 AM, hello spiral said:

I'm like 20yrs older than you. I've forgotten more ambient than you've heard.

 

Sorry, it's bad.

Least pretencious post on WATMM

  On 2/2/2023 at 3:49 AM, chemick said:

But what about this soundtrack? Can someone who doesn't hate him weigh in?

None of his stuff after Harmony in Ultraviolet did much for me, but I really like everything up to it.

The soundtrack does not work very well as a standalone album. My guess is that it's great as a soundtrack to the film. 

For other recent output, I would recommend The North Water OST. Great soundtrack to a great TV series. I also enjoyed Konoyo, including the gagaku-flutes. My (not so) humble opinion is that he releases solid albums almost every time (not a big fan of Instrumental Tourist and Love Streams) and that people should stop taking a dump in threads of artist they don't appreciate.

  On 2/2/2023 at 1:11 AM, hello spiral said:

I'm like 20yrs older than you. I've forgotten more ambient than you've heard.

 

Sorry, it's bad.

I'm like 20 years older than you.  I've forgotten more ambient than you haven't heard.

  On 2/5/2023 at 3:33 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

I'm like 20 years older than you.  I've forgotten more ambient than you haven't heard.

well yeah, at that age I'm surprised u remember ur watmm login :^)

  On 2/5/2023 at 5:04 PM, hello spiral said:

well yeah, at that age I'm surprised u remember ur watmm login :^)

Cookies are a god send

The Tim Hecker Love Streams post is the best thing that Tim Hecker hasn't done.

electronic musicians face essential temptations against which few can remain chaste:

1. dj sets

2. modular

3. vocals

4. soundtracks

5. redoing their hits

there are others..

Similar energy:

  On 2/2/2023 at 12:17 AM, logakght said:

Ravedeath was his peak.

I love Ravedeath, North Water and this new soundtrack Infinity Pool. Surprised Spiral's so anti Hecker I thought he had good taste in music

Nah he likes Hecker ... just more the Florian kind

The track in the first post sounds quite different from his previous stuff, sounds more akin to something by Ben Frost. Am I right in thinking they collabed in the past, maybe he borrowed some composing tips !

This is my favourite of his, much less crunchy and lots of lovely field recordings and other found sound snippets

  On 2/3/2023 at 8:27 AM, scumtron said:

My (not so) humble opinion is that he releases solid albums almost every time (not a big fan of Instrumental Tourist and Love Streams) and that people should stop taking a dump in threads of artist they don't appreciate.

I'm convinced a lot of the backlash has to do with Pitchfork successfully co-opting TH in the 00s, holding him up as a bastion to say "here, this is where electronic ambient IS AT," pulling him into their echo chamber, all the while having fuck all.biz to be arbiters of any technos whatsoever.  Then the machine becomes self-aware that it's a Pitchfork darling and suddenly the art get watered down in a broth of based-deer/hoof-hunters and sufjan stevens flacid penis in lana del rays mouth while lil wayne watches & jerks off in the corner

  On 2/5/2023 at 6:32 PM, Alcofribas said:

electronic musicians face essential temptations against which few can remain chaste:

1. dj sets

2. modular

3. vocals

4. soundtracks

5. redoing their hits

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This post made Chris Clark look up from a hooker's ass, face full of coke

Probably doesn't help with his interviews, his music is  “pagan music that dances on the ashes of a burnt church”, or “an electronic version of the Nordic desecrations of Christian sites” apparently. That and his rakish beenie hat. 

But... I still rate a lot of his stuff. Harmony in Ultraviolet in particular is a great album. 

@danshoebridge Tounge in cheek, right? Those quotes?

  On 2/7/2023 at 10:56 PM, scumtron said:

@danshoebridge Tounge in cheek, right? Those quotes?

He seems serious.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/05/tim-hecker-sacred-music-ambient-electronica-4ad

  On 2/5/2023 at 8:54 PM, mcbpete said:

Similar energy:

 

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Limmy!

Saw Tim Hecker live in cool Brooklyn last year. sound was amazing but the set didnt leave a lasting impression