The Haxan Cloak - Excavation

  On 5/2/2013 at 4:32 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

Decent review, i like just hearing this guy describe albums, i feel like he usually "gets" an album and thats reflected in his videos even if you disagree with the score.

yeah, anthony's style is the future of music reviews. it's like a friend telling you about a new album he heard, only more detailed and better expressed.

Mmmm Anthony Fantano,

I want to hate him but I find it hard to, which is quite impressive....

  On 4/17/2013 at 1:00 AM, Fred McGriff said:

 

  On 4/15/2013 at 12:55 PM, BUNKUM said:

 

Just seen he's done the latest RA Podcast

 

 

Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky - Incantation for Tape

Sun Ra - Imagination

Finn McNicholas - Why I Hate the Sea

Autechre + The Hafler Trio - Hae3

Burning Star Core and Prurient - Wheel of Fortune (Haxan Cloak edit)

Burning Star Core and Prurient - Hydrophiiac (Haxan Cloak edit)

ø - Olematon

Kevin Drumm - Snow (Haxan Cloak edit)

Halim el-Dabh - Wire Recorder Piece

Nine Inch Nails - At the Heart of it All

Sunn O))) - Richard (Haxan Cloak edit)

Boards of Canada - June 9th (Haxan Cloak edit)

Plastikman - Consumed

Meira Asher & Guy Harries - Torture/Bodyparts

Joy O - Wade in

AFX - Mangle 11 (circuit bent VIP Mix)

Chris Clark - Glen Velez remix

Folk Implosion - Raise the Bells

 

 

this is incredible. holy cow.

 

Got around to listening to this today, fuckin great mix. Some of the transitions are ace.

I was listening to this album the other day in the subway, and was genuinely scared because the vibrations of the trains passing by and the wind synced with the bass.

Finally listening to this, on Halloween no less. It's a such a well-executed and well-produced dark ambient album, a nice diversion from the often overly lo-fi/no-fi "dark" albums that have come out in the last few years. It's been said before, but I must echo the sentiment that Tri Angle actually puts some thought and effort in their label roster.

How's this album compare to his older material? What else is worth checking out ASAP?

This album had the Zomby effect on me. After intial big love, I lost interest fast. I think Haxan Cloak will one day make a serious classic album though.

His Observatory ep is worth checking

no fuck you guys shackleton is power and excellence

edit: also haxan cloack very good

  On 5/21/2013 at 1:22 AM, abracadabra said:

I was listening to this album the other day in the subway, and was genuinely scared because the vibrations of the trains passing by and the wind synced with the bass.

I´m impressed how you can listen to this kind of music on the street or subway i would behave strangely

  On 10/31/2013 at 9:49 PM, beerwolf said:

This album had the Zomby effect on me. After intial big love, I lost interest fast. I think Haxan Cloak will one day make a serious classic album though.

 

His Observatory ep is worth checking

same here, never bought it in the end, just didn't hold long interest. impressive sound production throughout but the tracks themselves are half impressive, gets boring. a half and half album. that ep has 1 long track on it thats great.

well, I'm still loving this album.

Magnificent album, in my top five for 2013 for sure. In the interview Usagi posted, The Haxan Cloak he seemed quite the down to earth guy, it was interesting to hear about his work ethic.

my review:

That Mirror Reflecting pt 2 track is gorgeous.. an amazing mixture of macabre, fantasy, sinister, and wonder... it sounds like an endless rabbithole of darkness, but not a despair or hopelessness kind of darkness, rather, a vastness of a world beyond.. the outer limits... nothingness and everythingness and the terrifying fathoming of just how strange and foreign those outer limits are/could be when a glimpse might be caught of it... an endlessly puzzling adventure, like falling down a seemingly never-ending pit, and realizing the magnitude of endlessness, the mindboggling nature of that endlessness along with the beauty of the realization that if theres a seemingly endless pit of darkness, there also must exist the opposite of that... and maybe it's from the same source.

  On 4/18/2013 at 10:32 PM, beerwolf said:

 

  On 4/18/2013 at 10:25 PM, Jimmy McMessageboard said:

 

  On 4/18/2013 at 7:48 PM, Jimmy McMessageboard said:

and no fucking bongos

 

exactly, shackleton does sometimes seem like one long bongo solo

 

lel

relistened to this for the first time in years the other night, and it's only gotten better with age. the second half of The Mirror Reflecting Pt2 is the highlight of the album, it creeps deep into your soul. I enjoy dark ambient as much as the next man, but I love that this isn't a bog-standard dark ambient album, there's a lot going on front and centre which keeps you engaged. the album title remains perfect, an exploration into the depths which takes you on a journey. I wish he'd made some follow-up albums that were equally powerful instead of veering into soundtrack work.

also:

  On 10/31/2013 at 11:25 PM, Salvatorin said:

no fuck you guys shackleton is power and excellence

this is a gem too

^ from the same set

  On 2/20/2023 at 6:30 AM, usagi said:

I wish he'd made some follow-up albums that were equally powerful instead of veering into soundtrack work.

btw the best substitute in the absence of this is the collab he did with The Body which remains a strong as fuck album.