I Forgot About Billious Paths

  On 2/18/2011 at 5:47 AM, kaini said:

take them panties off

put them panties on

i had a crazy idea to play that loop to some girl on my bus ride a few years ago. i'd see her everyday on the bus. good thing i didn't but i ... can imagine, the lols and then the slap across the face.

i lovemike's work but this cd leaves me a bit cold

can't really love it

its ok but not demanding of my attention because of the nails on the blackboard harshness?

i loved this album. there are a couple of really exceptional songs on here. like really twisted/fucked up and enjoyable at the same time. i dont really see the vsnares connection tbh. but yes, underrated album.

meinheld is still hecka epic.

If you hate on µ, remember Expert Know Twiddlers. If you hate on that too, die.

wasn't so keen at first but really like Bilous Paths, great album

but for his output with a sort-of similar sound think Hard Love has to be his best

there are some moments of beauty in Bilious Paths as well, Fall of Antioch, and some tracks which start off a bit flat develop into something very interesting to the ears

  On 4/25/2011 at 5:56 PM, tekkeN said:

there are some moments of beauty in Bilious Paths as well, Fall of Antioch, and some tracks which start off a bit flat develop into something very interesting to the ears

yep, these are my thoughts too. just listened again for the first time in uh, 7 years i think? great album and the only breakcore-related stuff i can listen to without cringing..

  On 3/29/2007 at 3:20 PM, weetabix said:

bilious paths was a direct attempt at copying snares and failing

Actually he credits Aaron in the insert on the album. Also I'm pretty sure Midwinter Log on lunatic harness predates most of funks releases making Mike the first person to use that style.. I don't know..

  On 2/9/2012 at 12:58 AM, StephenG said:

  On 3/29/2007 at 3:20 PM, weetabix said:

bilious paths was a direct attempt at copying snares and failing

 

 

Actually he credits Aaron in the insert on the album. Also I'm pretty sure Midwinter Log on lunatic harness predates most of funks releases making Mike the first person to use that style.. I don't know..

At least, predates Funks work that actually made it to release.

not really interesting enough for its own topic but I thought I'd mention how Mike/Aaron must trade samples back and forth because definitely - *bleep-bleep-bleep* sound on Grape Nut Beats 2 + Aanguish from Meathole, and speculation - Meinheld has the choir sample from/direct rip of? Suffocate from WITBOAS

also various jamaican people vocals

  On 2/9/2012 at 12:59 AM, StephenG said:

  On 3/29/2007 at 3:20 PM, weetabix said:

bilious paths was a direct attempt at copying snares and failing

 

 

Actually he credits Aaron in the insert on the album. Also I'm pretty sure Midwinter Log on lunatic harness predates most of funks releases making Mike the first person to use that style.. I don't know..

 

  On 2/9/2012 at 12:58 AM, StephenG said:

  On 3/29/2007 at 3:20 PM, weetabix said:

bilious paths was a direct attempt at copying snares and failing

 

 

Actually he credits Aaron in the insert on the album. Also I'm pretty sure Midwinter Log on lunatic harness predates most of funks releases making Mike the first person to use that style.. I don't know..

 

At least, predates Funks work that actually made it to release.

Kid Spatula - Full Sunken Breaks was released 3 years before Bilious Paths.

Snares was releasing at least as early as '99 cause that's when his split with Stunt Rock came out.

  On 3/2/2012 at 2:13 AM, Ragnar said:

not really interesting enough for its own topic but I thought I'd mention how Mike/Aaron must trade samples back and forth because definitely - *bleep-bleep-bleep* sound on Grape Nut Beats 2 + Aanguish from Meathole, and speculation - Meinheld has the choir sample from/direct rip of? Suffocate from WITBOAS

 

also various jamaican people vocals

they definitely share samples, and they also shared with Keith Fullerton Whitman, because I remember getting Grape Nut Beats Pt.1 from KFW's hotline server and being surprised cause it was a remix of Witch Hunt.

  On 3/2/2012 at 2:35 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 2/9/2012 at 12:59 AM, StephenG said:

  On 3/29/2007 at 3:20 PM, weetabix said:

bilious paths was a direct attempt at copying snares and failing

 

 

Actually he credits Aaron in the insert on the album. Also I'm pretty sure Midwinter Log on lunatic harness predates most of funks releases making Mike the first person to use that style.. I don't know..

 

  On 2/9/2012 at 12:58 AM, StephenG said:

  On 3/29/2007 at 3:20 PM, weetabix said:

bilious paths was a direct attempt at copying snares and failing

 

 

Actually he credits Aaron in the insert on the album. Also I'm pretty sure Midwinter Log on lunatic harness predates most of funks releases making Mike the first person to use that style.. I don't know..

 

At least, predates Funks work that actually made it to release.

Kid Spatula - Full Sunken Breaks was released 3 years before Bilious Paths.

Snares was releasing at least as early as '99 cause that's when his split with Stunt Rock came out.

 

  On 3/2/2012 at 2:13 AM, Ragnar said:

not really interesting enough for its own topic but I thought I'd mention how Mike/Aaron must trade samples back and forth because definitely - *bleep-bleep-bleep* sound on Grape Nut Beats 2 + Aanguish from Meathole, and speculation - Meinheld has the choir sample from/direct rip of? Suffocate from WITBOAS

 

also various jamaican people vocals

they definitely share samples, and they also shared with Keith Fullerton Whitman, because I remember getting Grape Nut Beats Pt.1 from KFW's hotline server and being surprised cause it was a remix of Witch Hunt.

Yes. =)

I love this album, it's amazing. It's not quite like anything else I've heard before. I think it's his best album. It's the sound of pineapples mixed with Twisted Metal.

The sound design is just hard to describe. It has boundless energy, it's itchy, tetchy. All his music is kind of straight forward and soft (but lush), whereas this is a genuine deviation into more weird antagonistic territory. I think it'll remain fresh for me years from now. I think it's a minor masterpiece of sorts, and definitely underrated. It's better than most Venetian Snares albums.

  On 4/4/2012 at 2:34 PM, Suffocate Peon said:

I love this album, it's amazing. It's not quite like anything else I've heard before. I think it's his best album. It's the sound of pineapples mixed with Twisted Metal.

 

The sound design is just hard to describe. It has boundless energy, it's itchy, tetchy. All his music is kind of straight forward and soft (but lush), whereas this is a genuine deviation into more weird antagonistic territory. I think it'll remain fresh for me years from now. I think it's a minor masterpiece of sorts, and definitely underrated. It's better than most Venetian Snares albums.

interestingly enough it says on the insert that a special thanks goes to aaron funk for all his help with the album.

Necroing this post because I just randomly saw this album pop up in my library and it's better than I remember. It actually aged really well.

siege of antioch is one of my fav tracks ever... tru dustbin-core

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  On 7/30/2017 at 9:09 PM, MIXL2 said:

recently re-listened to bilious paths, I rarely see these two tracks mentioned, love 'em! thanks mike!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWJTA4Wr2Q

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lp4YTkir78

Underrated gem that's in my top 3 albums of his defo

Johnny Mastricht, Meinheld, On/Off, Silk Ties, AEC Merlin, Grape nut Beats.... The list goes on, they are all so great

Yeah sick record. Especially the first tune.

Went looking for the most appropriate topic to bump to express my love for AEC MERLIN
 

The hyper-detailed programming, those lush processed hi-hats underneath the glitchy beat, the woozy detuned BOCish synths (bit of an Iced Cooly vibe for me), the off kilter beat, angular bassline and strange harmonies... Everything is so delicate but so lively, and just abrasive enough to give it a bit of an edge.  Just an incredibly masterful track.  This whole album feels almost obsessively meticulous, like you can really hear the effort that went into it (typical of IDM at the time and is something I really valued in music back then as well), it's amazing that he said at the time that it would be his last - It does seem like it was his last in this particular style tho.  Anyway, today is a day to celebrate AEC Merlin, bright and sunny fall day, will be going out for a walk down a Bilious Path somewhere

hes apparently going back to breaks on magic pony ride...

i hope that certain featured artists realize that digital is and always was the way to go to melt phaces using musix (ceephax not included ofc)

also does any1 know the story behind this vid? very pretty and one of my favs from the album

(fav being seige of antioch)

I think there's some good songs on here but often it does feel like a challenge of trying out about 50 effects on drum samples. It sounds restless and wanting to create something sonically exciting without much 'song craft' in there, which I think is something he has returned to in a big way in recent releases and which I am so happy about. New album with Mrs. Jynx is a great example of that. 

  On 3/29/2007 at 3:20 PM, not_vikur said:

bilious paths was a direct attempt at copying snares and failing

I would guess a lot of inspiration came from Hellfish & The DJ Producer

Siege Of Antioch is an absolutely perfect track and I just wanna know how he made it (edit: the percussion in particular, I dont know where to start to make it sound so.. alien?)

Was happy to see this thread pop up as I'm on a Paradinas kick currently and never gave this one enough listens. KTHX