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The Detroit Escalator Co. - Soundtrack [313]

The Detroit Escalator Co. - Soundtrack [313]

by Goldicot on Mon, Jul 7, 2025

Straight from Michigan

Iannis Xenakis differentiated western music from eastern by linear progression. A note is simply the effect of a prior note, and in turn the cause of another note. Chords demand resolution, progressions require conclusion. Time itself must be justified, through action. This is true – cold, hard fact. I agree, and think this way too. But it isn’t the only way. In the east, music is like a place, or a time.
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WAR – The World Is a Ghetto

WAR – The World Is a Ghetto

by Carlos on Tue, Jul 1, 2025

We finally know how old Carlos really is

War! What is it good for? Well, it turns out it’s pretty good for Latin- and jazz-infused hippy jam party funk rock crossover records. The early 70s — especially 1972 — were interesting times. Americans discovered their president was, in fact, a crook… then re-elected him anyway. The Vietnam War was starting to really look like a bad idea. The last Japanese soldier from WWII was captured in his Guam jungle hideout.
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Pestilence - Spheres

Pestilence - Spheres

by Dr. Verinen on Tue, Jun 24, 2025

The Doctor recommends some Death Metal today

Unlike, perhaps, some fellow Vortexers, it took me quite a few years to get serious about music listening. Therefore, choosing an album from the year I was 0 required some research. I found plenty of famous, important albums, but they were unfortunately too well known to spark an interesting discourse. I had to dig deeper. That’s how I stumbled on Pestilence’s Spheres. I was quite unfamiliar with Pestilence as a whole besides a few spins of Consuming Impulse and its… Charming cover art.
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Rhapsody - Legendary Tales

Rhapsody - Legendary Tales

by planex on Mon, Jun 16, 2025

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Some of you, I’m sure, see this and groan. You think you’re too good for this? You’re not! Try as you might to suppress that feeling, something within you lives when you hear Fabio Leone belt out “MIGHTY WARRIOR” on the first chorus. People who are reading this tend towards music which is dark and transgressive. You may not want to believe me, but right now, Legendary Tales is more transgressive than any avant dissoshit blackened death metal on the 2025 sheet.
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