rescue me

awesome wolf for an awesome album

album Explosions In The Sky yang lumayan terlupakan, dibuat saat sedang tur, lagunya jauh lebih pendek dibandingkan album lainnya, tetapi mereka menampilkan keindahan yang 'apa-adanya'. Kalau menurut saya album ini sejajar dengan album 'The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place' yang terkenal dengan Your Hand In Mine-nya. Rated A for Awesome!

seperti seorang gembel membeli sebuah bir murah untuk diminum dan mengatakan 'gila, bir ini super gak enak, super murahan, cuma cocok buat orang-orang gembel.'

mengerti?

orang di belakang yang tampangnya lempeng tapi luar biasa keren

wah lumayan lama juga ya saya gak ngepost di blog butut ini, haha.

jadi, sekarang saya mau ngebahas drummer favorit saya.

sampe sekarang, saya suka sama 3 drummer, oke, yang pertama!

Takashi Kashikura (toe)

Wah, emang drummer yang satu ini gak main-main. mainnya gila, rumit, tetapi tetap selaras dengan ritme lagu-lagu toe yang terkesan smooth dan skillful. definitely one of my role-models, he's got hands moving like no one else can, even you Portnoy, you suck! (ups, maaf)

Dan selain main di toe, dia juga drummer band j-rock The Hiatus, cuman saya gak dengerin si Hiatus ini. Kesimpulannya, toe band posrok jepang yang super bagus dan harus ke indonesia suatu saat nanti, dan drummernya super jago. Hahahaha....

Greg Saunier (Deerhoof)

Kalo drummer band art-rock ini, saya suka dengan caranya dia bermain lepas, dan ketukannya yang super...art-rock, yang agak unik bila ditelaah dia lulusan akademi musik. Abisnya ketukannya super absurd, dan settingan drumnya pun berbeda. Chinese cymbalnya bisa dibuka tutup kaya hi-hat, nah keren banget gak tuh. Coba aja dengerin discographynya si Deerhoof, kamu pasti mendengar ritme2 yang sangat berbeda tiap lagu ke lagu. Super amusing hahaha, dan dia juga banyak diajak collab, bahkan pernah bikin grup sama cewek pemain harpa bersuara suzanna itu..oh iye si Joanna Newsom.

Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt)

Wah ini dia, salah satu dari sedikit musisi outside music yang saya suka, main drum pake topeng sambil nyanyi dan kick nya gak abis abis. Ketukannya hampir selalu ngebuttttttt, setup drumnya juga aneh. Snare nya dua bo', krezi. Yang bikin dia keren adalah, selain dia punya banyak side-project, karena dia visual artist dan komikus! Wah mirip-mirip lah sama gua..hahaha ngarep.

Noted.

Note this, living is mainstream, eating is mainstream, listening to indie or popular music is mainstream. Everybody does that. Even modern art is mainstream. Indie is just a five letter word, and it means Independent. So, are you an anti-mainstream? Remember, death is mainstream too.

death from canada!

Death From Above 1979

Woooo yeaaahhh!!!

This bass and drum duo is freaking crazy! Hailing from Canada, with Jesse F Keeler on Bass and Sebastien Grainger on Drum/Vocal, they produced some fuzzy, loud, heavy sound of tricky basslines, not to mention the powerful drumming. Although they've split-up (because of something that related to gayloveness) but that doesn't make them lousy either. They make stunning music throughout their career, started with their Heads Up! EP, Romantic Rights EP, Romance Bloody Romance Remixes & B-Sides, and finally their first full album, and sadly the last so far, is You're A Woman I'm A Machine.

If you're likely to get bored by the likes of Raptures, LCD Soundsystem, or even !!!, then you'll going to dig this. The Heads Up! EP is my personal favorite, because it contains lot of sounds, effects, noises, and more noise. My favorite track is Dead Wombs, If We'll Don't Make It We'll Fake It, and Turn It Out from their full album.

Just hear this one out, in example.