Wednesday, May 17, 2006
New Artist alert: Binaerpilot
Binaerpilot is our first artist up for linking. I've been digging "Goof" and "Sanjorda" for some time now, both reside on my playlist at work. I checked in on the site today and he/she has a new track up called "Destroy the Popollution", which will also find a home on my playlist. Why do I like this stuff? Well, it's pretty simple -- it rocks! Not in a big-hair 80's sort of way, but in a bits and bytes sort of way. Well, maybe there'd be some big hair in there. Certainly it'd be a trip to see some rocker dude freaking out to this, but that's besides the point. The point is this doesn't suck. Many, many so-called "artists" out there that do electronic music get one of the loop-based software packages (such as Sony's Acid or Propellerheads' Reason) and fire away with preset loops. They make music that sounds like it should "fit" into some sort of genre with nary a thought for originality or composition. Not so with Binaerpilot (note: there shoud be an "umlat" (I think that's what they call it) above the "a" in the name, but I don't know the html code for it off the top of my head), this stuff gels as real honest-to-goodness songs, with progression and variety and style and all of that other good stuff. And there are vocals from time to time, more so on the newer "Destroy the Popollution" than the others.
As far as "sound" is concerned, the beats are machine-drum solid (not recognizable as being from any particular drum machine, but programmed nonetheless). The compositions are structured and well thought-out, no senseless noodling or rocking the same beat for eight minutes. Much use is made of random electronic noises, from videogame-ish bleeps and bloops to squiggly basses and a few random vocal samples. It's clean, although I wouldn't necessarily describe it as slick due to the abrasiveness of some of the sounds (not that that's a bad think). Overall production is great; while I haven't had a chance yet to burn this to disk and test it in my car, my guess is it'll hold up well on any sound system.
Overall Binaerpilot is, in my opinion, one of the best of the "free" artists out there. Electrofunk says check it out.
As far as "sound" is concerned, the beats are machine-drum solid (not recognizable as being from any particular drum machine, but programmed nonetheless). The compositions are structured and well thought-out, no senseless noodling or rocking the same beat for eight minutes. Much use is made of random electronic noises, from videogame-ish bleeps and bloops to squiggly basses and a few random vocal samples. It's clean, although I wouldn't necessarily describe it as slick due to the abrasiveness of some of the sounds (not that that's a bad think). Overall production is great; while I haven't had a chance yet to burn this to disk and test it in my car, my guess is it'll hold up well on any sound system.
Overall Binaerpilot is, in my opinion, one of the best of the "free" artists out there. Electrofunk says check it out.
# posted by Andrew @ 12:20 PM 
