The Black Dog - Music For Real Airports

  On 5/4/2010 at 12:32 AM, Caretstik said:

It's a great album. If they wanted to capture alienation and paranoia they succeeded for me. Also an unpredictable move after the last two albums (which I also love). I take it Thee Lounge is in the same vein?

yeah, similar style tracks. i've already played the album a few times since receiving it

i took the whole thing in w/ my tea this morning. Thee Lounge is a nice companion piece.

it really was better than Music For Airports, and i like that it's a departure (there's the pun) from the road they've been on for a bit. never did get Further Vexations but i'll go completist on it soon.

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:31 AM, SPD² said:

never did get Further Vexations but i'll go completist on it soon.

 

you should get it, it's a great album (at least i think so)

  On 5/4/2010 at 11:01 AM, oscillik said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:31 AM, SPD² said:

never did get Further Vexations but i'll go completist on it soon.

 

you should get it, it's a great album (at least i think so)

Yes, FV is a great album, go on and get it now.

I've been reading this thread and I dont know if I should go get this.

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:35 PM, chassis said:

I've been reading this thread and I dont know if I should go get this.

There's a preview of every track here - http://www.duststoredigital.com and it's only like 6 quid. If you still can't decide, then I really worry how you get on in life

i think this album is fucking brilliant. as someone who was recently stranded in an airport, because of that volcano explosion, i can definitely relate to the feeling of this music.

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:40 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:35 PM, chassis said:

I've been reading this thread and I dont know if I should go get this.

There's a preview of every track here - http://www.duststoredigital.com and it's only like 6 quid. If you still can't decide, then I really worry how you get on in life

6 quid that as a student I could have spent on beer

Nah, I just mean I could buy it start listening to it, get bored and never come back to it. It would just be another album in my collection gathering dust never being played.

  On 5/4/2010 at 9:35 PM, Joebot Kill said:

i think this album is fucking brilliant. as someone who was recently stranded in an airport, because of that volcano explosion, i can definitely relate to the feeling of this music.

That was the Black Dog's doing, publicity these days huh?

  On 5/4/2010 at 11:01 AM, oscillik said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:31 AM, SPD² said:

never did get Further Vexations but i'll go completist on it soon.

 

you should get it, it's a great album (at least i think so)

Yep, exactly. Fucking awesome album, my favourite of their entire career.

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:49 AM, Greg Reason said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 11:01 AM, oscillik said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:31 AM, SPD² said:

never did get Further Vexations but i'll go completist on it soon.

 

you should get it, it's a great album (at least i think so)

 

Yep, exactly. Fucking awesome album, my favourite of their entire career.

I much prefer the 2nd half of the album, everything from Northern Electronic Soul, Pt. 1 on is pretty special.

as an aside, for those wanting a slightly more experimental airport based album, check out the oh-so-lovely Airport Symphony - http://boomkat.com/downloads/76424-fennesz-room-40-various-airport-symphony

Heard this album last night and was quite pleasantly surprised. Going to have to go back and listen through more of their post-warp records work. I really didn't get into much of the early black dog, this stuff is pretty sweet though. Surprisingly electroacousticky-sound walk stuff, initially I thought it would be too cheesy but it works.. such nice textures.

There's a new ambient mix here that some of you guys may like:

http://www.theblackdogma.com/tbd/?p=1487

I go by rail to most places nowadays. Are there any train-station themed albums? Then again, don't bother. 'Music For Crewe Station' would end up being a proper descent into hell.

  On 5/7/2010 at 12:23 PM, Caretstik said:

I go by rail to most places nowadays. Are there any train-station themed albums? Then again, don't bother. 'Music For Crewe Station' would end up being a proper descent into hell.

Try Cage's 4.33 :)

  On 5/7/2010 at 12:23 PM, Caretstik said:

I go by rail to most places nowadays. Are there any train-station themed albums? Then again, don't bother. 'Music For Crewe Station' would end up being a proper descent into hell.

Actually Richie Hawtin's DE9: Closer To The Edit really reminds me of travelling by train.

(and of course there's Kraftwerk's - Trans Europe Express, a concept album based purely on a train line)

  On 5/8/2010 at 2:52 AM, mcbpete said:

(and of course there's Kraftwerk's - Trans Europe Express, a concept album based purely on a train line)

Oh yeah, that does ring a bell...

Most of you probably saw this already but FACT Mag just posted an interview with Martin regarding the album and stuff. It was interesting to read about their collaborative writing methods, what they were listening to while writing, etc. Pretty good interview.

http://www.factmag.com/2010/05/12/the-black-dog-strange-cargo/

And then I picked it up, in my pick'm up truck...

  On 5/3/2010 at 11:03 PM, Awepittance said:

glad Black Dog is doggin on Brian Eno. Way too many people in the electronic music scene take that guy and his (repeated, stolen) ideas far too seriously. His deck of cards is perhaps the most interesting thing about the man.

 

Fuck Brian Eno

 

 

and for my 2 cents, the album title is fantastic. The hilarious idealism and stolen concept of Eno's first album seems very crass and 70's new agey dated now.

first off, lol at "fantastic" music for real airports! man, this aint your grandpa's airport, this is the real shit. FUCK YOU OLD MAN! the title sounds resentful and puerile. or, if it's a pisstake, mediocre.

you can't possibly be so naive to believe that eno, whether 100% original or not, has had way more of an impact on contemporary electronic music than any of the people he's supposedly "stole"* from -- his aesthetic works, dude. there may be others who "thought of it first" but eno made it stick, b/c he's fucking intelligent, charismatic, an excellent artist, etc.

also, black dog...meh

*explain plaz

  On 5/12/2010 at 7:02 PM, acidphakist said:

And then I picked it up, in my pick'm up truck...

I took a sledge hammer and whammed it. I put it on the ground and whammed it.

i've put this on while going to bed for the last two nights and haven't made it to the end. and i like that. one day i'll listen to it during the day and enjoy it all the way through.

Haha last track is the best too

  On 5/13/2010 at 7:23 AM, Smuckers said:

i've put this on while going to bed for the last two nights and haven't made it to the end. and i like that. one day i'll listen to it during the day and enjoy it all the way through.

  On 5/13/2010 at 7:41 AM, Greg Reason said:

Haha last track is the best too

too fucking right

sucks to be me, eh. i'll give it a listen later.