subgeek's Journal: comfort sound

i just love the way the amen sounds. it's like a comfort food for my ears that i just can't get enough of. i prefer that people do something interesting with it, but i'll listen to uses that are less inspired and still enjoy it. for me it's become an instrument.

on a related note, the recent planet mu sampler sacred symbols of mu is just full of great stuff. there's a lot of variety. although the amen makes it's share of appearances, there are plenty of other good things this buffet has going for it. i like it so much i'm almost annoyed. i'd like to hear a lot more of most of the artists, but shouldn't just go buy 20 CDs. if someone had just told me there was someone out there recording under the name shitmat i never would have paid attention to it. but because it was on a sampler i listened to it, and i found i actually enjoy it. there are too many good tracks on this release for anyone who likes anything like IDM (either hyper or downtempo), breakcore, dnb, acid, or just the sound of synths and sampling not to recommend it. how can i not recommend something that starts off with a track called "the unbearable phatness of being?" i should also mention that i dig the boxcutter track because sielwolf told me i'd like boxcutter and he was spot on.

The Altar of Amen

[Cliff]

Hello, my name is Cliff and I am an Amen Freak.

[Crowd: "Hi, Cliff"]

That being said, I've recently run into some old skool DnB recordings from Lucky Spin records circa '94 and '95. Yeah, I'm talking some of the artists that got me in to DnB. Stuff that I had only heard on Bukem compilations back in the day.

Having full recordings by the likes of Orca, DJ Trace and Voyager. Smooth silky bass, haunting synths without all that warble (and I have to admit, synth and bass with warble are nice when done in

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[subgeek]

i don't think you should let that stop you. i don't think my journal is all that interesting, but i keep posting in it anyway.

it's nice to know that there's a support group for us amen freaks.

Heh

[sielwolf]

I kind of calculated that Boxcutter was up your alley by noticing he did use the Amen (sparingly) in it's sped up fashion but then slowed things down for some more heavy electro-stomp. It was sort of like Venetian Snares at their most melodic but without a lot of the high end experimenting. I also see that Soundmurderer and SK-1's "Toronto VIP" is on there. Good track.

All around the Amen there is a culture. Several cultures. There's that slow ambient stuff which trickles through Kevin Martin's Bug and

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[subgeek]

There's something very satisfying about the way it's drum and snares hit. Very squarely and satisfying.

exactly. the rhythm (in its original form) is something everyone's heard a million times over, but the sound of those drums is truly unique and satisfying.