fiveohnoes
03-03-2008, 04:49 PM
:wavey: (http://www.zshare.net/download/5968239159ce4e/)
PW: nodatta.blogspot.com
This is my favorite electronic album ever. There is a definite sense of emotion and 'organic-ness', for lack of a better term, that gives this album life beyond what is often achieved in the genre. Genre-wise it fits under downbeat/glitch. For fans of: Trip-hop (Portishead, etc.), Prefuse 73 and glitch at large.
edIT :: Crying Over Pros for No Reason (Planet-Mu)
"...while edIT's namesake technical proficiency is on par with leading producers in a multitude of genres, what makes this debut so impressive are his melodically simple yet emotionally complex themes..."
Mad e.p., Contributor
Sometimes a simple description can be such a semantic bulls-eye that it transcends the need for any explanation. The axiomatic tag, L.A. -based Ed Ma has chosen to compose under couldn't represent his music any better. In the truest sense of the word, edIT edits, and for anyone who finds even the slightest delight in the possibilities provided by digital signal processing, this album will serve as an undeniable hedonistic haven to be revisited again and again.
Why? For starters, it is produced very, very well. These days it is easy to take for granted what the average person can do with a personal computer- but edIT is far from being an average person. His attention to detail is downright humbling and he displays this most apparently in his rhapsodically enriched rhythms. Intricate and fanatically precise, the beats manage to breathe with capricious character while imbibing the guilty pleasures of time stretches, arpeggios of pitch shifted glitches, and shattered fills to refract from his drum machine breaks. However, while edIT's namesake technical proficiency is on par with leading producers in a multitude of genres, what makes this debut so impressive are his melodically simple yet emotionally complex themes. The album feels sincerely introspective and does a marvelous job of balancing waves of regret with persistent naive optimism.
Crying Over Pros for No Reason immediately introduces the listener to Ed Ma's universe. Each track is a world of its own, carefully crafted and isolated into specific moods. "Situps Pullups" explores how much one can tow back and forth while anchored in the same place while "Laundry" rinses a syncopated beat that struts underneathe a spinning synth line cycling through digital suds. If anything, the album can at times feel satiating, but it's not due to overindulgence. Each song feels complete, and while some albums rely on their tracks to build off each other, these ten pieces can solidly stand on their own (fans of Telefon Tel Aviv take note).
Crying Over Pros for No Reason will be released in early 2004 on Planet-Mu.
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PW: nodatta.blogspot.com
This is my favorite electronic album ever. There is a definite sense of emotion and 'organic-ness', for lack of a better term, that gives this album life beyond what is often achieved in the genre. Genre-wise it fits under downbeat/glitch. For fans of: Trip-hop (Portishead, etc.), Prefuse 73 and glitch at large.
edIT :: Crying Over Pros for No Reason (Planet-Mu)
"...while edIT's namesake technical proficiency is on par with leading producers in a multitude of genres, what makes this debut so impressive are his melodically simple yet emotionally complex themes..."
Mad e.p., Contributor
Sometimes a simple description can be such a semantic bulls-eye that it transcends the need for any explanation. The axiomatic tag, L.A. -based Ed Ma has chosen to compose under couldn't represent his music any better. In the truest sense of the word, edIT edits, and for anyone who finds even the slightest delight in the possibilities provided by digital signal processing, this album will serve as an undeniable hedonistic haven to be revisited again and again.
Why? For starters, it is produced very, very well. These days it is easy to take for granted what the average person can do with a personal computer- but edIT is far from being an average person. His attention to detail is downright humbling and he displays this most apparently in his rhapsodically enriched rhythms. Intricate and fanatically precise, the beats manage to breathe with capricious character while imbibing the guilty pleasures of time stretches, arpeggios of pitch shifted glitches, and shattered fills to refract from his drum machine breaks. However, while edIT's namesake technical proficiency is on par with leading producers in a multitude of genres, what makes this debut so impressive are his melodically simple yet emotionally complex themes. The album feels sincerely introspective and does a marvelous job of balancing waves of regret with persistent naive optimism.
Crying Over Pros for No Reason immediately introduces the listener to Ed Ma's universe. Each track is a world of its own, carefully crafted and isolated into specific moods. "Situps Pullups" explores how much one can tow back and forth while anchored in the same place while "Laundry" rinses a syncopated beat that struts underneathe a spinning synth line cycling through digital suds. If anything, the album can at times feel satiating, but it's not due to overindulgence. Each song feels complete, and while some albums rely on their tracks to build off each other, these ten pieces can solidly stand on their own (fans of Telefon Tel Aviv take note).
Crying Over Pros for No Reason will be released in early 2004 on Planet-Mu.
:bigthumb: