(never mind the spelling mistakes, or the grammatical errors)



I don't really know what the deal with a journal "feature" on DA is, whether you must have a subscription to make one or not, and so on and so forth. But I've decided to simply publish a journal entry featuring music. I suppose this should qualify as a "feature" as well - at least in some ways - technically speaking.

First of all, I would like to thank for inspiring me to make this entry. A deviant, to me perhaps most recognizable for her extensive and analytic deviation comments, who never seems to grow tired of spreading joy.

Keep in mind, I'm not handing out any kind of constructive criticism, or feedback, or anything of that kind. This journal entry is for PROMOTING music made by other deviants. Therefore I've chosen to focus on highlighting the good parts of every artist, and alongside trying to deliver a somewhat correct picture of what the music sounds like.

I hope your cup of coffee/tea/yerba mate/whatever is ready, and that you're comfortable in front of the computer screen. Put your speakers on, 'cause now it's time to get groovy.



Starting of with some shameless self-promotion!

The band, the Oneflower Tribe: [link]
Acoustic "rock/blues/folk:ish" music, fairly fresh material uploaded there.

My own crappy solo recordings: [link]
Acoustic as well, with some electrical Scooby Doo-sounding organ in it.

Now: on to the fellow deviants!

(Just for the record: there's no specific order in the way I've chosen to present the following musicians)

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Music by Riolama
"Jess" [link]

Now this sole female composer brings us, by her own myspace description, other / acoustic / classical music. There's only one actual recording amongst her uploaded songs (title: Seconds of Silence), the others are midi/synthesized. There's an overall soothing smoothness to her melodies and somewhat simple tunes; with great and enjoyable melodic finesse. Have a listen to 'Seconds of Silence' and give 'Adelaar' a chance at least.

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Music by Jimmyjazz13
"Jack Goodlet" [link]

Here's an interesting bunch of rather fuzzy recordings, by, I suppose, this one deviant alone. Mainly acoustic and highly experimental music with a lesser melodic and more rhythmic expression. The different songs, being of extensively repetitive nature - performed i a somewhat ritualistic manner - creates a an eerie mood. 'Deck 8 Seat 13 Bass Strait' and 'Tin Sheets' are definitely worth listening to. 'Mountains Grind' is interesting as well.

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Music by Thrawn
"I Don't Shoot Arrows Anymore" [link]

More acoustic stuff, now in the shape of the good ol' singer/songwriter-style. Here you'll find the youthful ideas of (somewhat naive, but still with a sense of maturity) romantic expression, dealing with the common phenomenon of love and such feelings. Amongst these recordings you'll find a cover of the song 'Birds' by Kate Nash. Listen to it, and don't forget to spare at least a minute or two for the track 'A Song For Digging'.

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Music by Crivassan
"___dREàgänN||||||" on last fm: [link]
and the official web page: [link]

Noise music! I got a tip-off on this guy from another deviant (whom I suppose would like to stay anonymous, if not I'll correct that later) and I was delighted to find such an artist, dealing with the highly questionable art of making music/auditive 'crafts' out of rather foul and disturbing sounds. I can't really say why I like these never ending streams of vaguely rhythmic noises, but I really do.

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Music by Buddhasandwich
"Bhudda Sandwich" [link]

Over to music made entirely of free online samples. Even though bhuddasandwich himself seems to have a modest approach to his own work (quote "[...] these are all about two years old and rather shitty.") I think it has an outstanding artistic value to it. Here you'll find some really well-made and incoherently produced tracks, none of them lacking the essential elements of good none-vocal music: there's a soft groove and a great set of beats, there's a hint of humor (listen to the song 'Maelstorm' for example) and there's a great puzzle of reoccurring melodies throughout some of the songs (listen to the song parkour and you'll see).

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music by Darkstar07
"Dj DarkStar" [link]
"Samatka" [link]
"D3F0RM3D" [link]

Dj Darkstar: More electronica, and good stuff as well. Due to the massive selection of songs to choose from I must admit I haven't taken the time to go trough all of it yet. There's a tasty nineties retro-vibe to most of it as well, if I'm not mistaken.

Samatka: A collection of down tempo, ambient, electronica and industrial rock-songs (described by darkstar07 as the "dark stuff", thusly keeping it separated from his DJ-profile). This is some utterly interesting music, I recommend a visit.

D3F0RM3D: At the moment of writing this: only two songs uploaded. Enjoyable electronica weirdness, simply put.

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Music by Asharpsilence
"Takeyourwords" [link]
"Yo Jesse" [link]

Takeyourwords: More electronica. These are her home made solo recordings "without any real equipment". Some times the limitation of real equipment forces you to put more creative effort into the music I suppose. There's definitely some gems amongst these recordings I belive (listen to 'uwonthearthisontheradio' and 'Dirtky' at least). These somewhat ambient composition with a slight surreal overtone, driven by spastic beats, reminds me of Aphex Twin. Which is a good thing.

Yo Jesse: Her band. This is also some kind of electronica (according to the description on their myspace). With an extensive variety of different instruments (an yet there's only 3 band members) they're delivering a rich and very dramatic sound. Massive songs. Dealing with this many auditive elements in each song but still managing to stay on a genuine track - not spacing out too much - makes this quite impressive and truly enjoyable. I'd suggest you listen to all their songs, though I find 'atmaha' the greatest.

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Music by Arkayem
"VIP3R" [link]
"Delayed Reaction" [link]
New song by Delayed Reaction: [link]


VIP3R: And the electronica keeps on appearing. Here's Arkayems solo music, in which he approaches a kind of ambient electronica, with a (in some songs) rich variety of melodies, sometimes even accompanied by distorted guitars, draped across an experimental layer of hip hop and dance drum-beats. If you enjoyed darkstar07's stuff you might want to check this out as well.

Delayed Reaction: First (and the only one as well, I belive) nu-metal artist on the list. Dark, heavy and melancholy, as it's supposed to be - but instrumental as well (! not many instrumental nu-metal artists out there). There's also some resemblance to the Seattle sludge and grunge metal-scene from the early nineties, e.g. the main riff in 'Danger' which reminds me of 'Outshined' by Soundgarden. Dynamic guitars, mixed with soothing keyboards (or something like that) and a brief bunch of guitar solos as well. Don't forget to check their new song out, it shows technical improvement as well as a movement towards more complex composition, when compared to the uploaded songs at soundclick.com.

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Music by Jofus-Leviathan
"Pandasonic" [link]
(music by his friends) "Blodspor" [link]

Pandasonic: There's only one song to be found here, a kind of rough quality recording. But it's a cozy contribution to this list. Mellow and kind of mediative, some simple chords and a high pitch keyboard melody (I think?) looping over and over again to a minimalist drum beat, accompanied with samples of children playing. Enough to make you feel happy.

Blodspor: Death metal, Norwegian of course. Well produced songs and a highly aggressive musicianship. Tight to say the least. Being a part of the Norwegian Death Metal scene on which bands like e.g. Darkthrone started out (today perhaps being most recognized as a black metal-band) they have quite the reputation to live up to, but they seem to be on the right track.

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Music by Ivebeentired
"Gogogo" [link]

These are the most lo-fi recordings on the list, which is really sad; because what musical qualities I can distinguish from these poor recordings is, I think, holding a lot of promise and potential. You can recognize the influence by great bands such as the Buzzcocks in their songs, there's some similarities to Joy Division as well. According to ~ivebeentired there's (or at least plans on making) a demo-recording. Stay tuned, I will at least.

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Music by Silentpair
"Bang" (or maybe it's just "Silent Pair"?) [link]

Here's a bunch of "short clips of some synth improvisations", and they're also "all live with no post processing on most of the tracks" (I found that a pretty decent description). It's funky stuff I might add. And there's - one last quote from the artist him/herself: - "more to come". Sounds promising enough to keep an eye on for me! Being short improvisations I find it hard to give a fair description of the music though. Have a listen and figure out by yourself.

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END OF LIST



There's a bunch of other deviants whose music I wanted to feature in this journal as well, but I never got an answer from them regarding whether I could or could not, so out of pure respect I didn't promote their music in this entry. However, evil as I might be, I'm going to post links to their DA-accounts here:

seanwashere
tungska-butterfly (loads of great music to offer)
gearmond
rachcouture
thecrossing
inner-silenced


Before I end this massive monster of text and links I must add: I was quite surprised to find this many Deviants engaged in making music, and equally surprised to find music of so many kinds. Some of it very promising stuff indeed. I hope YOU found at least something you could like in this entry.

Cheers!

//Over and out.