VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

this page does not at all agree with me.

1. helikopter string quartet - i don't consider it gimmicky - it seems like a work of art that is out to hone in on a specific feeling. i think it's basically pure genius and i understood where it was coming from the second i heard it.

2. this album is very simple to understand and "get." in a way, it's pop music - at least to somebody who is aware of how far out music can get. like i said, the concept of taking loads of sources and samples and turning them into something coherent and crazy is really great. i don't really care for this version of that concept though.

3. glitch music on the other hand - why does that word bring so much hate? some great stuff under that "genre."

fuck the god damn internet, i really don't know how to communicate properly.

well boys, ignore my judgements and pretension. just know that it's everybody for themselves in the world of opinion!

Am i the only one who thinks oscillik sounds like a parody of a genre-nazi music nerd?

This isn't music that you "get" or "don't get". It's not difficult in a Stockhausen kind of way (the Helicopter Quartet discussions are utterly confusing to see in this thread).

This is just music that you "like" or "don't like" (or are indifferent to, for that matter).

Seriously. How is VHS Head conceptual? Some sort of pop deconstruction? lol seriously, come on. This is sample-heavy glitch music with baroque (borderline-wank) flourishes...which is why

  On 11/11/2010 at 4:50 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

this sounds like [...] jackson [...]

is an understandable point of reference (especially regarding the borderline-wank flourishes)

this thread has reached it's tipping point

There is a ridiculous amount of pages in this thread. Im pretty happy about that.

yeah the guy surely deserves it

  On 12/23/2010 at 6:20 PM, KY said:

This is just music that you "like" or "don't like" (or are indifferent to, for that matter).

this is exactly what i meant by "this is music you either get or don't get"

dudes c'mon, everyone loves the vhs head, or you wouldn't be posting around here, you just show your love in different ways, just that...

You can't equate liking something to getting it, and not insult those who don't like it. Keep such antics in the Autechre subforum where they belong.

I don't know if I "get" it, but I neither love or hate it. It has its moments but on the whole it sounds like a fatiguing mediocrity fest to my ears.

  On 12/23/2010 at 10:03 PM, manmower said:

You can't equate liking something to getting it, and not insult those who don't like it. Keep such antics in the Autechre subforum where they belong.

 

I don't know if I "get" it, but I neither love or hate it. It has its moments but on the whole it sounds like a fatiguing mediocrity fest to my ears.

okay, bad use of language on my part.

i meant the statement in the exact same way as someone would say "you either like it or you don't"

Weren't you supposed to be cunt?

lol

yeah oscillik, don't change, ever

  On 12/18/2010 at 8:20 AM, pigster said:

i've heard a few other soundclouds and artists that've been rumoured or suggested to being vhs head. this soundcloud i am absolute convinced. some of the songs have edits which sound rather identical /incredibly similar to that on the album. plus, i'm getting the same HOLY FUUUUCK reaction to these tracks. thanks heaps for posting, this stuff's fucken wicked.

This is probably jazz(maybe even for this thread) but if you look at Kris Blacow's soundcloud he has this:

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Most of the tracks here are the product of a project I've been working on with Neil Scrivin and VHS Head over the past 6 years. In 2004 we were all suffering from motivation issues when it came to writing tracks, so we devised an idea... create an album a month every month for a year, at the end of the month we'd all sit together and listen to each others tracks, and basically, praise/criticise them after one listen.

 

What we didn't expect was how competitive this way of working would become, with each of us trying to outdo each other month after month, of course we burn out after about 7 albums every year, but it has helped us write a LOT of music over the past 6 years, most of the stuff on this account is a product of this work practice: the tracks are fairly lacking in detail, and often unfinished as I scrape through the self imposed deadlines.

6 years * ~7 albums * ~30 min. = 21 hours of VHS head material

just for those who are still curious, Meat Bingo is an alias of Neil Scrivin

some fresh news for you - VHS Head live in Manchester 26th Feb, alongside VSnares, Neil Landstrumm. more details soon!

this album makes me think of Christmas. i remember thinking that way back in september too

  On 12/23/2010 at 7:10 PM, troon said:

this thread has reached it's tipping point

it's been fatally wounded but it just can't seem to stop struggling, unwilling to accept its fate ...

ps: album of the year nonetheless

  On 12/27/2010 at 6:23 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 12/23/2010 at 7:10 PM, troon said:

this thread has reached it's tipping point

 

it's been fatally wounded but it just can't seem to stop struggling, unwilling to accept its fate ...

 

 

ps: album of the year nonetheless

Dont be so retarded. Anyone who thinks that there was no good music in 2010 is a fucking moron.

BOOM

getting back in the groove of this album

I played this whole album through on Audiosurf's Ninja Mono mode.

Then I did me some Lego Feet.

  On 12/23/2010 at 10:03 PM, manmower said:

You can't equate liking something to getting it, and not insult those who don't like it. Keep such antics in the Autechre subforum where they belong.

 

I don't know if I "get" it, but I neither love or hate it. It has its moments but on the whole it sounds like a fatiguing mediocrity fest to my ears.

Bang on the money.

One of my favorite aotys. I think it's too long -- I can't get through it all in one listen usually -- so last time I listened I decided to figure out which songs I would cut if I were doing a shorter release, but then every song that came on, I was like, 'This one's awesome! I can't cut this one out!,' thereby leaving every song on the album lol

is this jackson and his computer band side project?

  On 1/3/2011 at 8:40 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

is this jackson and his computer band side project?

why is this album mastered so fuking loud?

is the mastering on the vinyl any better? anyone want to rip to flac for me?