[LAU] Some heavy stuff and some weird stuff made with linux

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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein at vait.se> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 May 2011 06.36.36 Arve Barsnes wrote:
>> Probably not the greatest display of what you can do with a linux box
>> this, but we just released two albums and an ep yesterday. The albums
>> are grindcore of the short variety (both albums are 19 songs in just
>> above 2 minutes), but the ep (The Piece.....) is a simple acoustic
>> song in 5/4 with some weird stuff on top. Even managed to use zita-at1
>> in there. It'll only take you 7 minutes to listen to all the three
>> releases, so take a listen to the band that only exists because we
>> thought it was funny that noone had ever used this word in a bandname
>> before ;p
>
>
> Cool stuff, can't say that the songs in "Constipation Day" and "Hold It In"
> are in my taste but the idea of 19 songs or parts in 2+ minutes is cool and it
> is in fact possible to listen to it. :-)
>
> The song Poltergeist from "The Piece Of Cod Which Passeth All Understanding"
> is on the other hand something I understand better and I really like it, but
> hey: -Use a pop-filter when recording the vocals! If you don't have a pop
> filter, then a stocking do in fact help or you can try to make a pencil sit
> vertically in the front of it with a rubber band or something if you don't
> have a pop filter, you used a dynamic mic?.  :-)
>
> Cool concept, all that songs/parts on two albums and one song in a EP with
> different titles for the song and EP - and what a title! :-) - in fact the
> titles all over the albums are great. I think I'm going to smile and chuckle
> many times the next day(s) when thinking about it. This is something new, at
> least for me.

Agreed - maybe this is actually Titlecore? However we label it (which
obviously Constipated will be bothered about) I quite enjoyed its
noisy brevity.

>
> It has been more and more creative and very audible moments in in the LAU-
> world lately where music is not the only creative part. I just love it :-)

This is a trend I'm enjoying and fully expect to continue and
intensify at an increasingly rapid rate now- certainly once Paul gets
the new A3 alpha out the door! (ding ding! ;)

dm

>
> Jostein (who probably never are able to release something May 17th and even
> less able to write something 6:30 on the 18th)
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