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Emptiness in Full Bloom

Reflections on Zen Master Dogen’s “Flowers in the Sky.”

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“Toward full IDM sound”

01. Baden Powell – Bassamba
Solitude On Guitar (1971)
02. Andrew Hill – Siete Ocho
The Blue Note Years, Vol. 5: Avant Garde 1963-1967 Disc 1 (1999)
03. Corcovado – Everything But the Girl, Everything But the Girl
Red Hot + Rio (1996)
04. Raul Midon – Devil May Care
State Of Mind (Pid, 2006)
05. Mônica Salmaso (part. Pau Brasil) – Logo Eu
Noites de Gala, Samba na Rua (Biscoito Fino, 2007)
06. Dj Krush – Escape (feat. A.S.A.)
Kakusei (Tristar, 1999)
07. Photek - Axiom
Modus Operandi (2000)
08. Venetian Snares – Twelve
Infolepsy EP (Coredump, 2005)
09. The Dining Rooms – Fatale
Ink (Schema Italia, 2007)

Note: A temperamental list. I keep shifting the songs and they wouldn’t stick together. Anyway, this is a part of “elegant” project, searching for playlist that capture the idea of elegant. The basic idea is to move away melody from the foreground and stay dry to make the rhythm section prominent. Changing texture balance by removing the usual mid-range instruments. So instead of melody-harmony with drum in the background, it’s melody-rhythm with harmony filler reduced as much as possible. I am not sure if it works or not, but I like it. I load up the list with bunch of songs full of delicate patterns. Overall I am trying to find that tension between seemingly chaotic and harsh IDM/DnB vs. warm vocal. Another way of arriving at new sounds that is not “indie rock” this, indie rock that. The new elegance? I put the balance back together at the end. k comment away.

see also: the secret reality of dreams, IDM (wiki)
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