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Author: astroid on December 09 2006
--> so this happened because the first song i made to deantoni's drum part sucked ass, and folks let me know.

and then i remembered that shostakovich made some preludes and fugues, and i happily started to make this. then i heard the actual shostakovich fugues and got very very depressed.

listened again tonight and liked it again so here tis. rough like anal sex with a black bear.

sorry about the pic.
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12/12/06 +  mlbot
lol, I thought we had a new user here

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12/12/06 +  electrodan
Best title ever Bruise.
I must admit I screwed up my listening to this the first time as I had the track playing from the page and also had "swimming dreams" downloaded playing on the winamp at the same time. I was, of course, confused. Once I unfucqed myself I really enjoyed the track.

I second fredo on the real pianer, tho I think a live performance of that kind of part is not befitting of the style. You've honed in so much on the - Live drums / Sequenced everything else - methodology.

Production and all that other shit aside, the composition is stellar. Its actually a little less "Scott" than usual. :D
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12/13/06 +  ricemutt
man, mad respect for actually going out and writing a theme and writing it into a fugue. I never even tried because I assumed it was something that I didn't want to mess with.

That theme reminds me of the king's theme from that bach "musical offering" with that chromaticism.

have you heard astor piazzola's fugues? check that out--he puts the funk into fugues like noone else i've ever heard. I think maybe your stuff like this could benefit from that.... I mean, yeah, it is really interesting how you're doing this, but your other stuff can be so funky and interesting and this sounds kind of like a fugue from 300 years ago eating itself... and sounds kind of bad. you gotta put some funk into it! Well, that's just my constructive criticism. All the funk is in the drums, but the piano parts sound like uninterested robot copulation.

anyways, respect... cool shit.
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12/13/06 +  astroid
brutal!

lol
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12/13/06 +  ricemutt
didn't mean to be brutal... sorry, I wasn't trying to come off that way.
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12/13/06 +  ricemutt
Ok...

Here is what I was talking about, some fugal music by the nuevo tango grandaddy himself:

This stuff is obviously not in strict fugal form, but there is definetely all kinds of counterpoint, as well as clear statements of the theme and entry of the voices. He kind of goes off on his own thing after a while, usually:

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the second track there is a piazzola fugue arranged by egberto gismonti, another south american (brazilian) musician that I really love.

Anyway, i'm just a strong advocate of placing something in a relevant context, you know, something new and living. Hey, I love that you did this track, that's why i'm going out of my way to be an asshole ;). What i'm saying here is I really love how piazzola took the idea of fugue/counterpoint and made it very relevant and soulful, and put all that funk and sweat into it. I know you've got tons of style, I could never beat in you in a battle, heh heh... just go for it...
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12/13/06 +  ricemutt
another really amazing fugue type track that I know of by piazzola is this short thing called "fuga y misterio" on his album pulsacion. I especially wanted to rip that and put it up here, but I can't seem to find it
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12/13/06 +  astroid
i appreciate the criticism lots-and you're totally right. the truth just hurts, is all.

those piazolla pieces are great. i have some ideas about how to put the funk into things-i get stuck sometimes flailing around in things not sounding "good enough". in particular, i have a whole lot to say about time signature and tuning. probably, i should stop fucking around with anything else and get back to work
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