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daumal

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Recieved Hardwired's CD this morning. Havnt had the time for a proper listen, so feedback will have to wait for a few days (I think it was track 4 I particularly liked) but pretty much all of them seem pretty decent from a first listen.

Just got to burn and send off my CD which I'll get done Tuesday.

I'm gonna burn my CD today and send it tomorrow. Apologies for the delay, but I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth. ;)

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Posted mine off to someone called Steve - could be anyone, loads of Steve's about. Three in my road alone - but it wasn't those Steves.

That was probably me then. I'm just back off my honeymoon so I will be listening to the CD possibly tomorrow and also sending mine out this week.

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Major Force - Return of the Original Artform (Cut Chemist Re-edit)

F.C. Kahuna - Glitterball

Leftfield - Dusted (Tipper Remix)

Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away

Evil Nine - Crooked

E-Dancer - World of Deep (Carl Craig Mix)

M.A.N.D.Y - Body Language

Tiefschwarz - Issst

Freeland - We Want Your Soul

Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days (MJ Cole Mix)

Westbam - Beatbox Rocker (Freq Nasty & Blim Mix)

Sounds of the Blackness - The Pressure (Junior Vasquez Mix)

Depeche Mode - Dream On (Bushwacka! Mix)

DJ Rhythm - It's Alright in Belfast

Royksopp - Sparks

My tracklist for MalevolentPanda.

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Hey Ben, had another listen to CD2 today. Hip-hop is not a genre I'm particularly into or know much about but I do know what I like when I hear it. The only stuff I really own is from The Beastie Boys, Cyprus Hill, Madvillain, Dr.Octagon, RJD2, DJ Shadow and Jay-Z. I have a fair amount of DJ mixes with some old school hip hop, funk and electro though which I enjoy. I'd almost go as far as to say I prefer instrumental hip hop, I noticed while making the comments that I find myself drawn to the beats rather than the rhymes. Anyway:

1991 01. Public Enemy - Shut Em' Down (Pete Rock Remix) [4:39]

This has a really nice flow to it, all of the Pete Rock stuff I have heard (not a lot) I have enjoyed. He seems to find a good groove and just effortlessly roll with it.

1992 02. Pete Rock & Cl Smooth - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) [4:46]

More goodness from PR, a sax loop this time. I recognise the little sample before the proper track starts, any idea what it is?

1993 03. Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck [4:51]

This one was pretty meh. It wasn't awful but at the same time it wasn't great. The loop got a bit repetitive, unlike the previous two.

1994 04. Nas - The World Is Yours [4:51]

This is the sort of hip hop I can always listen to. The loop is melodic, the beats roll smoothly and the rapping is good. Some nice scratching too.

1995 05. Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II [5:26]

A slightly darker vibe to this one but with some crisp beats. Not bad. Reminded me of an Eminem track, not sure which though.

1996 06. De La Soul - Stakes Is High [5:30]

I was suprised to find this was De La Soul, thought their sound was a bit lighter than this. Track was ok I guess, nothing special.

1997 07. KRS-One - Step Into A World (Rapture's Delight)[4:49]

Recognised the organ loop from some house record or another. The beat on this track is ace, nice and fat (phat?). I quite like KRS-One's rapping style too. Not sure about the female vocal though, didn't seem to sit well with the rest of the track. I thought the track felt a little empty after the half way point, needed a bassline or some more variety.

1998 08. Outkast - Rosa Parks [3:57]

I found this one boring. Don't really like his voice or style.

1999 09. The Roots - Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New [4:34]

Funky. Love the instrumentation in this one. I've heard a few good tracks from The Roots now, feel like I should maybe yarr a whole ablum and see how I get on with it.

2000 10. Reflection Eternal - Move Somethin [3:08]

Large is how I'd describe this sound. The rapping was quite aggressive but the track got boring.

2001 11. Automator - A Better Tomorrow [5:57]

The first track which didn't sound like typical US hip hop and therefore more the kind of thing I'm used to hearing. This is the same guy as Dr.Octagon right? Not that keen on this track, was a bit dull and repetitive.

2002 12. Mr Lif - The Now [3:48]

More funky stuff, I swear there was a Gitaroo Man sample in there (Mojo King Bee stage). Pretty good overall but I thought the vocals were a bit hard to understand at times..

2003 13. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain [2:31]

The only track on the cd that I already knew. I've really grown to like the whole album ever since picking it up cheap earlier in the year. MF Doom is one of the few rappers who I can actually appreciate his word skills and not just the beats (which are also brilliant).

2004 14. Diverse - Explosive (featuring Lyrics Born) [3:30]

I heard RJD2 mentioned at the start, I assume it's one of his productions? Contains some classic sample usage. Not too keen on the rapping in this one though.

2005 15. Cage - Grand ol' Party Crash (feat. Jello Biafra as The Dubya) [5:01]

This was filthy. Would this be grime? Either way, the beats were fat and the bass was fatter. Can't say I was too keen on this sound.

I'll try CD1 again at some point but comments might be a little more brief as I didn't enjoy it as much.

-Gavin-

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MalevolentPanda

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Major Force - Return of the Original Artform (Cut Chemist Re-edit)

F.C. Kahuna - Glitterball

Leftfield - Dusted (Tipper Remix)

Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away

Evil Nine - Crooked

E-Dancer - World of Deep (Carl Craig Mix)

M.A.N.D.Y - Body Language

Tiefschwarz - Issst

Freeland - We Want Your Soul

Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days (MJ Cole Mix)

Westbam - Beatbox Rocker (Freq Nasty & Blim Mix)

Sounds of the Blackness - The Pressure (Junior Vasquez Mix)

Depeche Mode - Dream On (Bushwacka! Mix)

DJ Rhythm - It's Alright in Belfast

Royksopp - Sparks

My tracklist for MalevolentPanda.

I've had one playthrough, so I'll listen to it some more before posting more detailed comments, but initial impressions:

It's pretty much the dream CD of my old housemate, used to play exactly this sort of stuff all the time. He's actually coming to visit tomorrow, so I'll put it on for him, and see what he thinks. I like some of it a lot, it's not stuff I would usually listen to, but I might go out to it occasionally. There's a club here called Urban Gorillla that used to be quite good at one point, and it's pretty similar to what they would play. I have to say that the vocals on several of the tracks were very irritating, and really spoilt a few of the songs.

But yeah, I give it a better listen before giving proper opinions.

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MDK

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Got mine today, it's got Christmas Music on it, lots of Xmas tunes. :( As far as Christmas music goes, it's not that bad, sort of Christmas/alternative tracks, but I dunno if I'm ready for this yet, it's not even December. :P

Maybe I should delay feedback until I've bought some mince pies, so I can get in the right mood.

Anyway, my CD won't be going out until this weekend at the earliest, most of it is mixed but I'm pretty busy atm so I can only find the time to mix one track per day atm.

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Got mine today, it's got Christmas Music on it, lots of Xmas tunes. :angry: As far as Christmas music goes, it's not that bad, sort of Christmas/alternative tracks, but I dunno if I'm ready for this yet, it's not even December.  :P 

Maybe I should delay feedback until I've bought some mince pies, so I can get in the right mood.

:wub: I know it's a bit early, but I got fed up with it lying around so just sent it.

Tracklisting:

1. Weezer Christmas Celebration

2. In Memory The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

3. Vandals My First Christmas (As a Woman)

4. Blink 182 Happy Holidays, You Bastard

5. MxPx Christmas Night of Zombies

6. Stand Still I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus

7. Sum 41 ft. Tenacious D Things I Want

8. The Matches December is for Cynics

9. Weezer Christmas Song

10. Bright Eyes God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

11. Jimmy Eat World Last Christmas

12. Something Corporate Forget December

13. The Red West It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

14. Bright Eyes Little Drummer Boy

15. The Beautiful Mistake A Cradle in Bethlehem

16. Joy Zipper Christmas Song

17. Dashboard Confessional The Only Gift That I Need

18. Brand New Oh Holy Night

19. George and Antony Happy Xmas (War is Over)

20. From First to Last X12 Days of XXXmasx

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Ben

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Thanks for the comments acidbearboy, you seemed to like the tracks I thought you would. I tried to make it pretty varied where I could but it was tricky in places with the limiters I put on myself.

Pete Rock's stuff is pretty smooth, I find some of it pretty dull but when he's on form his production is almost untouchable. He produced The World Is Yours too, so it's a bit of overkill but I needed to include something from Illmatic and couldn't drop either of the other two. I don't know where the T.R.O.Y. sample comes from I'm afraid, it's a classic loop though.

I'd recommend picking up Things Fall Apart (where the track was from) as a starting point for The Roots, I don't think they've released anything else quite as good, it's got quite a unique sound and works brilliantly as an album.

I went for some more alternative hiphop for the more recent years as it's mainly what I listen to. As you guessed the Diverse track is a RJD2 production - I wanted to include something by him somewhere. The final track is a DJ Shadow production, it is pretty similar to grime and dubstep (which the Americans seem to love) but it's more complex musically - It matches the lyrics really well in my opinion.

Thanks for taking the time :P

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I've been sent a CD full of cover versions, which I think was from hairy jesus. Has he been properly banned? I'm not going to find out what they all were now. Anyway, it went something like this:

1 - Can't remember exactly what this is called but it's about "I go through all this before you wake yadda yadda". Very slow acoustic version.

2 - Metally version of Radio Ga Ga

3 - Woman sings acoustic version of Heart Shaped Box

4 - Rubbish shouty version of 99 Red Balloons

5 - Word Up - not the same cover as the one I got sent a few months back

6 - Blue Suede Shoes by... Motorhead? Sounds like Lemmy, anyway

7 - Annoying voiced woman sings that one that goes "Hey now hey now, don't dream it's over"

8 - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Apache (arguably this isn't a cover)

9 - Really, really dour acoustic version of Hit Me Baby One More Time. The kind of thing that would only appeal to dead inside musos.

10 - Hardcore (rave) version of The Kids Are United. Slightly ridiculous but very funny

11 - The only track I don't recognise the original to. But it's pretty dull anyway.

12 - Ska Tetris! Winner!

13 - The Lemonheads (remember them?) - Mrs Robinson

14 - A mauling of Feeling Good by Nina Simone. For shame.

15 - Ska version of Hotel California with, bizarrely, instrumentals only on the choruses

16 - Shouty version of Making Plans for Nigel

17 - Metal version of Sympathy for the Devil

In conclusion I think the only way to increase the diversity of this CD would have been to include some Senor Coconut.

superstarbeejay - Sorry I've been very slack this week, I will send your CD out tomorrow, double donkey promise!

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1 - Can't remember exactly what this is called but it's about "I go through all this before you wake yadda yadda". Very slow acoustic version.

7 - Annoying voiced woman sings that one that goes "Hey now hey now, don't dream it's over"

9 - Really, really dour acoustic version of Hit Me Baby One More Time. The kind of thing that would only appeal to dead inside musos.

14 - A mauling of Feeling Good by Nina Simone. For shame.

Thought you might like to know a couple of the originals whilst you wait for the proper tracklisting...

1. Must be a cover of Bjork's Hyperballad.

7. That'll be a cover of Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over

9. Could this be the Travis cover that was rather big a few years back?

14. This might be Muse's cover version. If it is, it's shocking and I command the sender to stab pins in their own eyes.

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blackplastic

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Okay acidbearboy, here is your feedback:

Part 1:

Already said most of what I can say... So is this the CD you posted the cover of, or part of it, or what? It's great anyway... My brother is going to like this when he gets back from uni. And did you take a guess that I'd know some of this or have you seen me comment on my extreme love for Secret of Mana?

Part 2:

Track 1 - A dubby, hip-hop track with a sample I really recognise in the background. Sounds like a mix between an old chillled out Timo Maas song I forget the name of and Bt or something. It's good, but sadly loses it's way just a little bit towards the end.

Track 2 - A track from Rez... I can't remember which area, I think it might be the one with all the green, but I don't really remember. This is great, although it is strange hearing it removed from my actions.

Track 3 - Veeeeeery loooooong. A slightly jazzy, glitchy piece. It almost sounds like it could be old Aphex Twin or Autechre, but I don't think it is. Quite enjoyable, but at 25 minutes it does rather little for rather a lot of time. The soulful bit in the last 5 minutes is nice.

Track 4 - An abstract techno piece, with a train and a funny noise going through it. Much shorter, but still almost seven minutes long. Again, sounds like Autechre or something (although I've never really listened to Autechre). Quite pleasant but couldn't really be classed as music!

Track 5 - This is good. Ambient again and I REALLY REALLY know the awowaawawaa vocal from somewhere... But I'm not sure where!

Track 6 - Hip-hop... Quite cool sample based breaks and scratches fun.

Track 7 - The Eels - Susan's House. Brilliant track. I used to love the Eels, and stopped listening after I was put off by the second album. I've decided I might have been wrong though and as such bought the last album which is good. This is still great.

Track 8 - Sort of ambient breakbeat. A recognise a sample in it... This sounds a bit like someone like Backini or something.

Track 9 - Sort of classical piece that sounds like it must come from a film or a game. Quite Final Fantasy-esque. Stirring stuff, I feel I need to be slaying some evil force to get the most out of this.

Track 10 - The Killers - Mr Brightside. One of my girlfriend's favourite bands... The Killers are alright, and this is definately their best song. The Jacques Lu Cont mix is fantastic too btw...

Track 11 - This is brilliant. I used to have it but lost it when my hard drive crashed a while ago. I could never find it on my iPod because I couldn't ever remember it's name, and no-surprises, I can't now either. I think the title has something to do with birds, or the colour blue, or something... I have to admit I discovered this in an episode of the OC much to my embarrasment. I hope you don't mind but I like it so much and it fits into the sound of the CD I'm sending this month so I've stuck it on <_<

Overall, some good stuff, no particular theme but the spookiness of the mystery sender combined with the fact that it contained references to two of my favourite games and had a song I loved but had lost (plus that vocal I recognise) maintained an elation throughout.

Tracklisting?

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Thought you might like to know a couple of the originals whilst you wait for the proper tracklisting...

1. Must be a cover of Bjork's Hyperballad.

7. That'll be a cover of Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over

Ah of course! I knew I knew the songs, just didn't recognise them out of context.

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Track 4 - An abstract techno piece, with a train and a funny noise going through it. Much shorter, but still almost seven minutes long. Again, sounds like Autechre or something (although I've never really listened to Autechre). Quite pleasant but couldn't really be classed as music!

I'm gambling on this being something to do with On The Brownsville Turnaround by The KLF.

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Hardwired

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Recieved Hardwired's CD this morning. Havnt had the time for a proper listen, so feedback will have to wait for a few days (I think it was track 4 I particularly liked) but pretty much all of them seem pretty decent from a first listen.

Here's your tracklist, plus a few comments. Let me know what you thought when you've had a good listen.

01. Bubblegum - Silversun (Disappear Here, 2005)

- I was so happy when they released this album. It's not quite as great as their older stuff, but it's still brilliant to have them/him back.

02. Both Sides Now - Jason Falkner (Everyone Says It's On - Disc Them, 2003)

- This is a cover of an old Joni Mitchell song. I really wanted to put some original Falkner stuff on here, but couldn't decide what to use. So I stuck this on instead.

03. Brave Captain - fIREHOSE (Ragin' Full-On, 1990)

- A little bit of old-school.

04. Liz Phair - Weston (The Massed Albert Sounds, 2001)

- This was actually used on the soundtrack to a really old PS1 skateboarding game (in the times before Tony Hawk), but I forget what it was called.

05. The Day Brings - Brad (Interiors, 1997)

06. Cold Hands (Warm Heart) - Brendan Benson (The Alternative To Love, 2005)

07. 14th Street - Rufus Wainwright (Want One, 2004)

- Again, so hard to choose which Rufus track to put on here, I gave in to temptation and put two on instead.

08. Waiting For The Sun (Live) - The Jayhawks (More Rain, 2003)

- I love this song. The original's from an album called Hollywood Town Hall, but this live acoustic version is absolutely superb. More Rain came as an extra CD with the Rainy Day Music album.

09. One Less Heartache - Jason Ringenberg & The Wildhearts (All Over Creation, 2002)

- A collaboration between country hero Jason Ringenberg and British rock gods The Wildhearts. Who could ask for more? It's from a great album full of Ringenberg collaborations with people like Steve Earle, Tommy Womack and Lambchop.

10. Girls Are Better Than Boys - Silver Ginger 5 (Black Leather Mojo, 2000)

- More Wildhearts related goodness here, with a classic track from Ginger's other band's debut album.

11. Alive & Amplified - The Mooney Suzuki (Alive & Amplified, 2004)

12. Freakshadow - Scarce (Deadsexy, 1995)

13. All Kinds of Time - Fountains of Wayne (Welcome Interstate Managers, 2004)

14. Chinatown - Jets To Brazil (Orange Rhyming Dictionary, 1998)

- Orange Rhyming Dictionary is definitely one of my favourite albums of all time, but again it's a really hard one to pick an individual track from. The album hangs together so well as a whole, it just seems wrong to tear it apart.

15. Poses - Rufus Wainwright (Poses, 2001)

- This is such a great song. "There's never been such grave a matter, as comparing our new brand name black sunglasses". Brilliant stuff.

16. Falling - Ben Kweller (Sha Sha, 2002)

- The perfect way to end any CD.

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