Circus of Shit Contributions + by Arcticbeard

This track sounds like it would work well in some kind of sci-fi movie or TV show.

Your sound reminds me of a cross between Danny Elfman and Isao Tomita, a Japanese synth programming genius who sequenced many classical works.

Other notes:

Change at about 3:35 seems to come out of nowhere.

I like the bass line at 4:30.

Things are really getting funky here in the 6th minute. I'm afraid

This is something that ive never heard before.

I wouldnt even categorize this as a "song". Its hard for me to figure out, how much of these sounds, that are played, and how much that are just programmed. Its a difficult and uncomfortable journey through strange rooms and spaces of synth-arppegios, unearthy sweeps, and generally wierd sound-landscapes.

Some of it sounds even classic orchestral, like its composed, arranged and scored by a welleducated musician.

For some reason, i cant keep from thinking of Frank Zappa.

Maybe its because this whole composition has a sort of built-in intellectual-distance to the listener. In the process of listening to this piece, you simple accept, that you dont get it.

I cannot judge if this is good or bad, and i cannot give any critics or advices, because it is so different from anything i know.

Review: Morose beats, ambient tunes and textures, odd bits and pieces from left field, sci-fi weirdmusic and quirkily

altered vocals (from time to time) squiggle against

your ears as you listen to Arcticbeard's, distinctive audio compositions. AB's experimental

personality reaches out like a sad child exploring

this and that, picking things up, looking at them,

putting them back down, moving on to something else,

and sometimes coming back for a second look at a sound

or odd bit of music. Without giving you a technical

blow-by-blow of what each track sounds like from start

to finish, peculiar segue to peculiar segue, I can

only provide you the sketchiest of descriptions for

this music/audio construction. For said description,

see above. For reaction, keep reading. "The Circus of

Shit Contributions+" is capable of being both

meditative and unsettling. Meditative because it does

provide for a unique metaphysical listening

experience. Unsettling because ... well ... just

because. It isn't that it goes from quiet to some

really loud bit of strychnine audio strafing across

your ears (like Pink Floyd did to me on "Ummagumma",

the bastards ... I was trying to drift off to sleep to

that CD). It's just that there's a certain sense of

mental oddity that takes you to really strange places.

Of course, some of us like to go to really strange

places ...

Awards from Garage band

Track of the Day on 22Apr2006 in Experimental Rock

Best Bass in Experimental Rock, week of 17Apr2006

Best Keyboards in Experimental Rock, week of 17Apr2006

Best Programming overall, week of 17Apr2006

Best Programming in Experimental Rock, week of 10Apr2006

Best Programming in Experimental Rock, week of 17Apr2006

Best Production in Experimental Rock, week of 17Apr2006

Best Beat in Experimental Rock, week of 17Apr2006

Most Original overall, week of 17Apr2006

Most Original in Experimental Rock, week of 17Apr2006

Potential Soundtrack in Experimental Rock, week of 10Apr2006

Potential Soundtrack in Experimental Rock, week of 17Apr2006

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