Tribute to Incomplete Skyscrapers Released

Tracklist:

01 Swegüno - Edifice of The Confounded

02 Pselodux - Heymotion

03 Face Culler - Structural Analysis

04 Mr. Rogue - Slow Pan from Left to Right

05 Ascdi - Panes II

06 Owen Gilbride - Suburban Developments

07 William S. Braintree - From Start to Unfinished

08 ChestHeir - Brash Tacks

09 arbee - échéancier

10 Future Image - Empty Ladder Frame

11 Krtek - Load Failure

12 Entogora - Last TPiece

13 Magnet & Steel - Skyscrapes

14 Zephyr Nova - Future Relics

15 cubus - 51° 30' 15'' N, 0° 5' 11'' W

Link: http://cytoplantasti...ete-skyscrapers

I'm very pleased with how this album turned out. I was surprised by how diverse the tracks were, in terms of musical style and also in terms of interpretation of the theme. I think this diversity will be very apparent to everyone when listening to the album. I really like the way the album pulls together all the different styles and different ideas into one whole. This album really sounds like a compilation, in a good way.The judging process was fairly hard. There were 5 judges, three judges from watmm (including me), and 2 from outside watmm. The judging results were all very different, and so it was challenging to incorporate 5 different opinions and make one tracklist. I think I got everyone's favourites into the album, and the order of tracks is very solid.I'd like to give special thanks to Zephyr Nova for doing the mastering and to slightlydrybeans for doing the album art (and the animated album cover, and for doing individual track art). They both volunteered a lot of time and the results are great. I'm particularly happy about the album art, because, as far as I know, this is a new thing for a watmm compilation. It also looks great.Also thanks to everyone who submitted a track.As with the Christmas album, I put this on bandcamp as a "name your price" purchase. Since this is not my own work, please do not pay for the album. Just plug $0 in when downloading. I put it as a "name your price" album because there is a limit of 200 free downloads a month. If that is used up (which I'm not expecting--July's almost finished anyway) you can download it by paying a penny or whatever.Also, this album is under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. So feel free to sample or re-upload as long as you credit the original source.PS: I also took this opportunity to rename the Christmas album from "North Face on the North Pole" to "A Very WATMM Christmas, 2011". I'd like to do more Christmas albums, and I didn't want to set the precedent of having to come up with a lame IDM/Christmas pun every year.Happy listening!

Yay!

you also ought to post this up in the New Releases forum as I think a lot of people look there for new music.

I'm biased, but yes I think this would rate a NR thread.

Holy shit at the artwork. There's track by track art as well? Nice job!

I'm at the 3rd track. Excellent so far.

nice cover art. well done there. will check out when i'm done with get the gringo (which is fantastic btw).

topic title reminded me of phnom penh

(not really skyscrapers but still...)

didnt hear the album now, grats anyway...

  On 7/26/2012 at 1:54 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

you also ought to post this up in the New Releases forum as I think a lot of people look there for new music.

Done.

Wow, the opening track is pretty fucking good.

  On 7/26/2012 at 3:23 PM, Ascdi said:

I'm biased, but yes I think this would rate a NR thread.

 

Holy shit at the artwork. There's track by track art as well? Nice job!

yep. :) a composition for each track. You can see them on the bandcamp page.

Cool. great job everyone! I'm downloading now!

I love the animated album art!

  On 7/26/2012 at 5:56 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 3:23 PM, Ascdi said:

I'm biased, but yes I think this would rate a NR thread.

 

Holy shit at the artwork. There's track by track art as well? Nice job!

 

yep. :) a composition for each track. You can see them on the bandcamp page.

i don't see them/ please post them

  On 7/26/2012 at 6:53 PM, Jimmy McMessageboard said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 5:56 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 3:23 PM, Ascdi said:

I'm biased, but yes I think this would rate a NR thread.

 

Holy shit at the artwork. There's track by track art as well? Nice job!

 

yep. :) a composition for each track. You can see them on the bandcamp page.

 

i don't see them/ please post them

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/edifice-of-the-confounded

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/heymotion

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/structural-analysis

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/slow-pan-from-left-to-right

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/panes-ii

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/suburban-developments

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/from-start-to-unfinished

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/brash-tacks

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/ch-ancier

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/empty-ladder-frame

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/load-failure

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/last-tpiece

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/skyscrapes

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/future-relics

http://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/51-30-15-n-0-5-11-w

Ya see? Each track has its own cover/artwork.

Oh yeah, sorry I should have explained that. When you listen to it as an album, you simply see the album art. If you want to see the track art, just click on the individual tracks. Or download the album.

oh shit, i meant to make something seeing as incomplete skyscrapers was one of my suggestions.

anyway, checkin

  On 7/26/2012 at 5:46 PM, Squee said:

Wow, the opening track is pretty fucking good.

Thanks very much! I'm Swegüno just in case there's any confusion :)

Downloading this now! I am SO excited to hear all the other submissions. And the animated artwork is stellar slightlydrybeans!

  On 7/26/2012 at 8:15 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 5:46 PM, Squee said:

Wow, the opening track is pretty fucking good.

 

Thanks very much! I'm Swegüno just in case there's any confusion :)

Nice! Reminds me of the soundtrack for The Proposition by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

Mr Rogue track is very cool, I'm not throu yet

The last track by Cubus is cool as well. The title is clever.

damn, i listened for only a couple songs but this is amazing! will definitely be listening to this for a long time.

yes, good job for the artwork, mastering and track selection.

those tracks are pretty damn good !!

Man, this is fun to listen to! I am up to the Mr. Rogue track; great sample of someone talking shit about architects!!!

Great track William S. Braintree! I can vividly imagine the frenzied mania of the construction workers as they relentlessly build upward!

  On 7/26/2012 at 6:56 PM, Squee said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 6:53 PM, Jimmy McMessageboard said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 5:56 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 3:23 PM, Ascdi said:

I'm biased, but yes I think this would rate a NR thread.

 

Holy shit at the artwork. There's track by track art as well? Nice job!

 

yep. :) a composition for each track. You can see them on the bandcamp page.

 

i don't see them/ please post them

 

http://cytoplantasti...-the-confounded

http://cytoplantasti...track/heymotion

http://cytoplantasti...ctural-analysis

http://cytoplantasti...m-left-to-right

http://cytoplantasti.../track/panes-ii

http://cytoplantasti...an-developments

http://cytoplantasti...t-to-unfinished

http://cytoplantasti...ack/brash-tacks

http://cytoplantasti...track/ch-ancier

http://cytoplantasti...ty-ladder-frame

http://cytoplantasti...ck/load-failure

http://cytoplantasti...ack/last-tpiece

http://cytoplantasti...rack/skyscrapes

http://cytoplantasti...k/future-relics

http://cytoplantasti...0-15-n-0-5-11-w

 

Ya see? Each track has its own cover/artwork.

These are a wonderful touch as well! The one for the Krtek tracks looks similar to the EP7 cover.

A couple people mentioned Mr. Rogue's track. I think one of the things about it that makes it so striking is that, while a lot of the other tracks call to mind a newly incomplete skyscraper (in many cases one that's still being built), Mr. Rogue's track calls to mind a really old incomplete skyscraper; one that's become part of the environment, and has been ominously looming overhead for a very long time.