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Best music discovered in 2010
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Well, because I have no better things to write about and I don`t like the year-old journals here, I decided to make a series about the best albums/musical artists I discovered last year. That does not mean these albums are from 2010, only that I discovered them during 2010.
And the first one is:
Hybrid - Wide angle, Disappear here, I Choose Noise, Morning Sci-Fi
Great surprise to me, how did I find this one so late? Very rich electronic/orchestral (maybe one of the best combinations that exists) sound with lots of textures, layers, details and also lots of different emotions and slightly different styles. I cannot recommend only one particular track from Wide Angle, all of them are great if not perfect, so the examples below are chosen to show the diversity and richness and complexity of sound of this album. Probably the best album I discovered last year for me, something really fresh, deep, original and most importantly just beautiful. As for sound quality, this one is simply amazing. If you have at least decent speakers or 'phones (preferably with headamp), then this album is truly audiophiles joy - the orchestral parts were recorded by the Russian Federal Orchestra and it REALLY shows and the electro-stuff builds on that to achieve whole new level, there is always something to discover, something you have not heard before.
I Know: www.youtube.com/watch?fmt=18&v…
Dreaming your dreams: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfsB9N…
Fatal Beating: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJjp2_…
Finished symphony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoV9d9…
Of course, the sound quality of Youtube is poor, this album really calls for some lossless format (CDDA/FLAC)
Hope I inspired you a little bit, see you with next one
And the first one is:
Hybrid - Wide angle, Disappear here, I Choose Noise, Morning Sci-Fi
Great surprise to me, how did I find this one so late? Very rich electronic/orchestral (maybe one of the best combinations that exists) sound with lots of textures, layers, details and also lots of different emotions and slightly different styles. I cannot recommend only one particular track from Wide Angle, all of them are great if not perfect, so the examples below are chosen to show the diversity and richness and complexity of sound of this album. Probably the best album I discovered last year for me, something really fresh, deep, original and most importantly just beautiful. As for sound quality, this one is simply amazing. If you have at least decent speakers or 'phones (preferably with headamp), then this album is truly audiophiles joy - the orchestral parts were recorded by the Russian Federal Orchestra and it REALLY shows and the electro-stuff builds on that to achieve whole new level, there is always something to discover, something you have not heard before.
I Know: www.youtube.com/watch?fmt=18&v…
Dreaming your dreams: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfsB9N…
Fatal Beating: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJjp2_…
Finished symphony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoV9d9…
Of course, the sound quality of Youtube is poor, this album really calls for some lossless format (CDDA/FLAC)
Hope I inspired you a little bit, see you with next one
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Regular year update
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Well, Dragarta has been poking me around because of this old journal for quite some time now,so I figured it`s really time for some update.
What`s new:
* New job, quite a decent one I guess, not exactly what I had in mind but of course, but I cannot be picky at this time, without any skills and/or experience one might add. Not exactly my kind of thing either, but 'you have to do what you have to do', that is it. No passion in it really, guess this is how 'an ordinary' worker feels like...
* Will to change things, question is, how are they going to turn out at the end, not sure if I want to know at all.
* More money obviously, although there is no joy in them, only more problems.
* My Canon 300D broke, no second mirror and AF working - I managed to fix that, bud only to find my set piece 18-55mm to be also broken and only working around 50mm+ fl, life is sometimes a b...
What`s hot:
* Dragarta, she is on fire you know, so probably (definitely) HOT - and as always, the one and only light in the dark
What`s not:
* School - still not finished, oh my god this is such a f*cking nightmare. The day I will finish this stuff will be one of the most amazing days in my life - and GOD I hope it will be soon. Over the years, it has come from awkward to downright hell. It is so depressing, so unfulfilling, so useless... years of my life wasted with absolute and pure *NOTHING*, this one is really crushing my life atm *sigh*...
* Personal trouble - just that sometimes even getting a tea feels like climbing a mountain, I really have no idea why life must be like this, I must find a new reality escape technique. Seeing my colleagues at work, with only 20 more years to pay their mortage, every-day-is-the-same nothing-changes kind of look in their eyes, one really must find something to LIVE for.
* No time AND mood to create - creating or immersing yourself in other world was always something that kept me going. Now, there is no time or mood for that, I really don`t know how I will function in a long period of time without this, one feels like an empty shell sometimes.
What`s new:
* New job, quite a decent one I guess, not exactly what I had in mind but of course, but I cannot be picky at this time, without any skills and/or experience one might add. Not exactly my kind of thing either, but 'you have to do what you have to do', that is it. No passion in it really, guess this is how 'an ordinary' worker feels like...
* Will to change things, question is, how are they going to turn out at the end, not sure if I want to know at all.
* More money obviously, although there is no joy in them, only more problems.
* My Canon 300D broke, no second mirror and AF working - I managed to fix that, bud only to find my set piece 18-55mm to be also broken and only working around 50mm+ fl, life is sometimes a b...
What`s hot:
* Dragarta, she is on fire you know, so probably (definitely) HOT - and as always, the one and only light in the dark
What`s not:
* School - still not finished, oh my god this is such a f*cking nightmare. The day I will finish this stuff will be one of the most amazing days in my life - and GOD I hope it will be soon. Over the years, it has come from awkward to downright hell. It is so depressing, so unfulfilling, so useless... years of my life wasted with absolute and pure *NOTHING*, this one is really crushing my life atm *sigh*...
* Personal trouble - just that sometimes even getting a tea feels like climbing a mountain, I really have no idea why life must be like this, I must find a new reality escape technique. Seeing my colleagues at work, with only 20 more years to pay their mortage, every-day-is-the-same nothing-changes kind of look in their eyes, one really must find something to LIVE for.
* No time AND mood to create - creating or immersing yourself in other world was always something that kept me going. Now, there is no time or mood for that, I really don`t know how I will function in a long period of time without this, one feels like an empty shell sometimes.
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Avatar - good film, bad reviews
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Dnes pouze cesky, trocha 'brain vomit' snad neuskodi...
Nu tohle je asi dost 'over the top' ale mne spise zaujalo, ze vetsina lidi ne ani tak tady ale hlavne na zahranicnich/velkych forech ten film vidi jako shit ci ztraceny potencial. Vpodstate ten zminovany tanec s vlky/pocahontas, tedy vykradacka jedna velka a CGI neni dost dobre, aby to dokazalo zahladit, spatny film, tecka... WTF, videli jsme v kine to same?
Napriklad se i uvadi, ze 2012 je lepsi jak trikove tak pribehove - konec sveta je originalnejsi a menekrat natoceny, nez pocahontas? Rozpad par zdi budov je tezsi natocit, nez uveritelnou animaci hromady nejakych organismu? Letajici skaly jsou nesmysl protoze... to by na *zemi* nemohlo byt? Zelene poselstvi je humus protoze... by bylo lepsi, kdyby je ti lidi rozstrileli? Spojeni s prirodou je trapne, protoze neco takoveho uz mel Matrix? Pribeh je hrozny letdown protoze tu uz byl? Pribeh je slaby pac zradit vlastni rasu a nenavideni lidi s jejich economy pristupem je... na to ani nevim, co rict? Je to 100x omilane tema protoze jsou tam... postavy?
Ja nevim, mne to prijde, ze kdo chce psa bit, hul si vzdy najde... ono nejde jen o Avatara ale obecne o popularni filmy - vzpomente na dobu, kdy Matrix byl uzasny a kultovni. Ani ne rok po tom kazdy temer rikal, ze Matrix je trapny shit - prave proto, ze se vetsine libil a byla potreba se nejak odlisit. Neprijde Vam mozna trochu smutne, ze lidi se uz nechodi do kina bavit ale nekteri (alespon tak to prijde mne) si tam jdou jen potvrdit sve nazory, ktere maji uz dopredu? Snad se divame na film abychom si odnesli z kina nejaky nejlepe inspirativni zazitek, ne abychom mohli napsat kritiku no ne? Nechci ted nikomu brat jeho nazor, o to se nesnazim, spise mne zarazi ten pristup. Jak muze nekdo prohlasit 'mohlo to byt mnohem lepsi' a pritom se napriklad ani nezamyslet jak, pripadne jestli by to vubec bylo mozne - ale jednoduse vi, ze by to mohlo byt lepsi... WTF? Ono to zase neni tak jednoduche, ja vim ze dosti cechu je experty na uplne vse co jim prijde pod ruku ale jak vidno, nejsou v tom sami.
Netvrdim, ze Avatar je nejaka revoluce - technologicky je to skvele a Weta opravdu je nejlepsi CGI studio co aktualne existuje, ovsem ze je to shit? Nejlepe protoze reklama slibovala neco, co tam nikdy nebylo? Odkdy lide davaji na reklamu 100%? Obcas by to asi chtelo trochu soudnosti.
Co si myslite Vy, sledujete podobne trendy v ceskych i zahranicnich recenzich/diskuzich u takovychto 'trhakovych' filmu, nebo vam tenhle pristup ke kinematografii pripada vporadku? Chodite do kina kvuli zazitku, jste ochotni projednou zapomenout na predsudky a nechat se +/- filmem vest i kdyz to neni vas obvykly styl vypraveni, nebo proste reknete 'tohle je naprd' a zbytek filmu trpite? Chodite do kin na dokonaly film? Docela by mne ty nazory zajimaly - neb jsem opravdu dosel dojmu, ze 'na zazitek' (coz neznamena vypnout mozek) uz nechodi do kina nikdo, neb se nenecha filmem vest a vse jen kriticky analyzuje, jakoby mel nejaky virtualni checklist. Posledni recenze 'uzasne' jsem videl jen u fanousku Pana Prstenu a to jen u par... neni to smutne, ze uz si asi neumime uzivat filmy?
Nu tohle je asi dost 'over the top' ale mne spise zaujalo, ze vetsina lidi ne ani tak tady ale hlavne na zahranicnich/velkych forech ten film vidi jako shit ci ztraceny potencial. Vpodstate ten zminovany tanec s vlky/pocahontas, tedy vykradacka jedna velka a CGI neni dost dobre, aby to dokazalo zahladit, spatny film, tecka... WTF, videli jsme v kine to same?
Napriklad se i uvadi, ze 2012 je lepsi jak trikove tak pribehove - konec sveta je originalnejsi a menekrat natoceny, nez pocahontas? Rozpad par zdi budov je tezsi natocit, nez uveritelnou animaci hromady nejakych organismu? Letajici skaly jsou nesmysl protoze... to by na *zemi* nemohlo byt? Zelene poselstvi je humus protoze... by bylo lepsi, kdyby je ti lidi rozstrileli? Spojeni s prirodou je trapne, protoze neco takoveho uz mel Matrix? Pribeh je hrozny letdown protoze tu uz byl? Pribeh je slaby pac zradit vlastni rasu a nenavideni lidi s jejich economy pristupem je... na to ani nevim, co rict? Je to 100x omilane tema protoze jsou tam... postavy?
Ja nevim, mne to prijde, ze kdo chce psa bit, hul si vzdy najde... ono nejde jen o Avatara ale obecne o popularni filmy - vzpomente na dobu, kdy Matrix byl uzasny a kultovni. Ani ne rok po tom kazdy temer rikal, ze Matrix je trapny shit - prave proto, ze se vetsine libil a byla potreba se nejak odlisit. Neprijde Vam mozna trochu smutne, ze lidi se uz nechodi do kina bavit ale nekteri (alespon tak to prijde mne) si tam jdou jen potvrdit sve nazory, ktere maji uz dopredu? Snad se divame na film abychom si odnesli z kina nejaky nejlepe inspirativni zazitek, ne abychom mohli napsat kritiku no ne? Nechci ted nikomu brat jeho nazor, o to se nesnazim, spise mne zarazi ten pristup. Jak muze nekdo prohlasit 'mohlo to byt mnohem lepsi' a pritom se napriklad ani nezamyslet jak, pripadne jestli by to vubec bylo mozne - ale jednoduse vi, ze by to mohlo byt lepsi... WTF? Ono to zase neni tak jednoduche, ja vim ze dosti cechu je experty na uplne vse co jim prijde pod ruku ale jak vidno, nejsou v tom sami.
Netvrdim, ze Avatar je nejaka revoluce - technologicky je to skvele a Weta opravdu je nejlepsi CGI studio co aktualne existuje, ovsem ze je to shit? Nejlepe protoze reklama slibovala neco, co tam nikdy nebylo? Odkdy lide davaji na reklamu 100%? Obcas by to asi chtelo trochu soudnosti.
Co si myslite Vy, sledujete podobne trendy v ceskych i zahranicnich recenzich/diskuzich u takovychto 'trhakovych' filmu, nebo vam tenhle pristup ke kinematografii pripada vporadku? Chodite do kina kvuli zazitku, jste ochotni projednou zapomenout na predsudky a nechat se +/- filmem vest i kdyz to neni vas obvykly styl vypraveni, nebo proste reknete 'tohle je naprd' a zbytek filmu trpite? Chodite do kin na dokonaly film? Docela by mne ty nazory zajimaly - neb jsem opravdu dosel dojmu, ze 'na zazitek' (coz neznamena vypnout mozek) uz nechodi do kina nikdo, neb se nenecha filmem vest a vse jen kriticky analyzuje, jakoby mel nejaky virtualni checklist. Posledni recenze 'uzasne' jsem videl jen u fanousku Pana Prstenu a to jen u par... neni to smutne, ze uz si asi neumime uzivat filmy?
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QUpdate
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So, again long time no see, but let me be brief anyway...
.: Personal Stuff :.
Dragarta is still with me - a huge YAY & HUGS & APPLAUSE fore her!!
anything else is meaningless...
.: Tech Stuff :.
DIY 'new' speakers done (CZ, reconstruction of old ones from friend) ~> thep.klfree.net/plog/log1_repr…
DIY Aureal recording head done ~> thep.klfree.net/hlava/
DIY PIC programmer done, expect funny stuff in near future (Class-D amp etc...) ;D
DIY Super-LED flashlight done, looking forward to some night walks outdoor with friends (3W, 24+ hours on full power) ^.^
New camera -> DSLR instead of compact one, so I must unlearn what I have learned as Yoda would say...
And that`s all - see ya next time!
.: Personal Stuff :.
Dragarta is still with me - a huge YAY & HUGS & APPLAUSE fore her!!
anything else is meaningless...
.: Tech Stuff :.
DIY 'new' speakers done (CZ, reconstruction of old ones from friend) ~> thep.klfree.net/plog/log1_repr…
DIY Aureal recording head done ~> thep.klfree.net/hlava/
DIY PIC programmer done, expect funny stuff in near future (Class-D amp etc...) ;D
DIY Super-LED flashlight done, looking forward to some night walks outdoor with friends (3W, 24+ hours on full power) ^.^
New camera -> DSLR instead of compact one, so I must unlearn what I have learned as Yoda would say...
And that`s all - see ya next time!
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Work to do
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As always - with the end of the school year, when final exams are near, there is always a huge load of work to do. I don`t have time to write anything specific right now, so more detailed update is coming soon...
The only important thing right now: it seems my love Dragarta is going to be OK afterall, a big hug & YAY for her!
PS: Some of you wanted to see my 'prototype' in the last journal. Unfortunately it is still not completed and quite far from it, but at least for now - few shots of my 2nd generation amp working 'prototype': cisheep.deviantart.com/art/pAm… , cisheep.deviantart.com/art/pAm… , cisheep.deviantart.com/art/pAm…
The only important thing right now: it seems my love Dragarta is going to be OK afterall, a big hug & YAY for her!
PS: Some of you wanted to see my 'prototype' in the last journal. Unfortunately it is still not completed and quite far from it, but at least for now - few shots of my 2nd generation amp working 'prototype': cisheep.deviantart.com/art/pAm… , cisheep.deviantart.com/art/pAm… , cisheep.deviantart.com/art/pAm…
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