Hands in the Air (Music YAy)

hellsan631

United States695 Posts

December 31 2010 06:53 GMT

So I really like music. I took about a year or two of music theory and composition courses, play guitar, and write a few songs here and there. I was mainly into guitar instrumental music, the likes of Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert, but ever since I started watching day9, I have grown a love for electronica, dubstep, and a few other odds and ends. I basically held a belief for a very long time that techno and any subset was crap, because all I heard was house (which i still don't like, but represents a lot of the mainstream techno i've heard). Its all personal preference, but now that I know the difference, its w/e.

So I thought I would share some of my findings weekly (i listen to a lot of pandora) in a blog post.

Here in no particular order are some amazing song's i've come across. Some of them you may recognize from day9. Some of them you may not. Either way, enjoy.

(the first post will feature 10 songs total. all song set may vary, but ill try and keep it at about at least 5 songs)

(Click on the image for the youtube link)

Dubstep, Rave, Techno
1. Chris Clark - Herzog

Herzog needs to be played as loudly as possible. The feel of this song is similar to getting hit by a large wave on the beach. Its exhilarating, exciting, and is there every minuet for the experience.

Eletronica, Glitch, Ambient
2. Proem - Cold Water (flat)

Cold Water has a very relaxing feel to it. It has a high contrast between the sharpness of the percussion, and the light chorus effect in the back ground. It feels a lot like a rain storm in the mountains. Soft water drops and lightning strikes punctuate your senses.

Eletronica, Industrial, Techno
3. Architect - St. Vodka (Mother Russia)

St. Vodka has a rather unique aura to it. On the surface its pure heart pounding beats, but underneath the hard exterior is a classically inspired backdrop that almost has a mass effect quality to it. If I where to describe this song in two words it would be "Industrial Elegance".

Eletronica, Ambient, Downtempo
4.Bichi - Whirl // A Stream Of Comfort, To Cool and Surround Me, Until I Lose Sight Of My Own Defeat

Whirl, as i'll call it, is a rather elegant song. Its very dark and emotional at times. It give you the feeling that something is watching you, as you walk down a very square and somewhat wide path.

Rave, Dance-punk, Industrial Rock
5. The Prodigy - Warriors Dance

Warriors Dance is a lot like Herzog in its in your face nature. This song isn't that necessarily unknown, but that doesn't make it any less as awesome. It seems as if prodigy knows how to name their song, because they very much has the feeling of the title.

Eletronica, Glitch, Techno
6. Gui Boratto - The Verdict

The Verdict is a very ambient song. It very much is like the falling of leaves at the end of spring. I would like to add as well, that I knew of this song before day9 (i don't remember him playing it on his stream tbh).

Ambient, Space, Downtempo
7. Solar Fields - Sol

Sol track Sol feels very much like in your face ambient. Its feels a lot like sun bathing. Solar Fields is fastly becoming one of my favorite artists to listen to. He has even composed the Mirror's Edge game sound track, one of my favorite games.

Eletronica, Techno, Techstep
8. Secret Frequency Crew - Holographic Moon Owls

Holographic Moon Owls, besides having such an awesome name, has one of the best, funkiest backing beats ever. You know when you are looking at an awesome piece of art, like a painting, but you don't know what it is a painting of? But you still love it any ways because of the colors, textures, and everything else about it. Yea, that's this song.

Dubstep, Industrial, Rave
9. SKRILLEX - Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites

Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites came and blind sided me with a baseball bat of pleasure and awesome down-tuned bass. If I ever want my ears to explode, it will be to this song. Its seriously amazing on almost all levels. The best part is its rather unique. Its got a bi-polar disorder for awesome song genres.

Techstep, Rave, Dubstep
10. The Toxic Avenger - Escape (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)

Escape stops you from thinking. You just focus on the amazing backing rhythm and melody. That's basically all I have to say about that.

Well, there you go. I enjoyed making this post, because it made me look over some of my current favorite songs. I tried to keep a few of the ole day9 favorites out of there, but I guess they just snuck in. Don't worry though. There is a lot more stuff out there that I have yet to explore.

As for the topic title, who really cares, eh?