ex-chiodos frontman brandon bolmer premiered his new song, Ready (Cinematic Version) as an EDM/classical/heavy rock influenced solo project.
very interesting. i loved bolmer-headed chiodos [honestly, more than i liked craig owens or even craig owens in DRUGS], and i’m glad he’s making music now that his time with chiodos is done.
really interesting. i love that he has a vision for a maskarade [aka, a masquerade] ball as a live show. i could imagine that being a spectacular event.
for now though, listen for yourself and read a little on what bolmer’s been up to since he left chiodos. http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/interview_song_premiere_maskarade_ready_cinematic_version_on_life_after_chi
cheers,
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a few thoughts on skrillex’s new EP, bangarang.
i was iffy on it at first, but it’s really growing on me. i put skrillex’s ‘more monsters and nice sprites EP’ on my list of ‘2011 must haves’ as a runner up, simply because it wasn’t a real album and barely an EP in its own right. more monsters had 3 new songs [2 of which were pretty much the same. i’m looking at you, ruffneck] and 3 MORE remixes of scary monsters & nice sprites, which honestly weren’t getting any better than the original or the scary monsters EP reworkings by genre champs noisia and zedd.
it’s easily apparent that sonny moore has been pushing and twisting genres since the name skrillex made it big. there are those [myself included] who think that skrillex has a foot in dubstep, but is moving right out of that and into something new, brostep. brostep is known for being more aggressive and pushy than its older brother, with an emphasis on the mids as opposed to the subtler bass focus found in dubstep.
back to bangarang. very solid set of 7 NEW songs. no more outside remixes, no more remixes of himself. i know these songs have been floating around on youtube in some shape or form, but the ones found on bangarang are polished, mature in all senses of the word, and show growth in the best possible way out of his previous work.
as far as stronger tracks, bangarang ft. sirah and kyoto ft. sirah are easily my favorites, while the more relaxed summit ft [my girl] ellie goulding more or less holds the spot that ‘with you friends [long drive]’ held in the original scary monsters EP. kyoto is hyper aggressive [and pretty graphic, so look out haha]. i don’t know who sirah is, but she brings a pretty sweet element to the EP, and in a way takes the place of foreign beggars in ‘scatta’.
right in, right on time and devil’s den are all solid, maybe a little more dance geared and certainly more standard skrillex . devil’s den has…some pretty jarring straight noise, and i think probably has some secretly graphic lyrics like ‘kill everyone’ [a la i want to eat your heart]. right on time is not for those who don’t like trance or house. read: more or less the same thing over and over.
this leads me to the weakest track, breakn’ a sweat. the beat, wobbles, and general instrumental aspect is awesome, featuring some truly unique and original sounds not usually found in this kind of music. my but is that the song’s one lyric gets old after the first repeat. unfortunately it goes on for just over 4 minutes. don’t bother with this track if you hate repetition, but easily the saving grace here is the ridiculous dubstep/brostep aspect of it. truly musical noise.
i’m looking forward to a full-length release sometime soon. whoever stole his computer and his hard drive holding all his raw material and years’ worth of unfinished and unreleased tracks, freaking return it. you stole from modern art.
no cheers, thief.
anthony
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