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1 Apr 1, 2010 3:53 pm

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A complete reworking of ilkae's first solo album.

This is some of my favorite material of all time. It shows an amazing amount of tracking skill as well as very complex and beautiful composition. The melodies and chord progressions remind me of Debussy and Ravel, but ilkae has a way of combining the melancholy with joy to make something that sounds like... well, it's awesome, anyway. There's also a weirdly nostalgic quality to the music, as though I am remembering a place I've never visited.

My words can't really do it justice, just listen!

stained glass piñata+

Last edited by zebra (Apr 1, 2010 3:54 pm)

2 Apr 20, 2010 3:08 am

zebra

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James Zdrowski (aka IQTU) wrote an excellent piece about the original album on his blog:

http://jamesalex.tumblr.com/search/ilkae

3 Jun 28, 2010 2:20 pm

ilkae

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montreal, qc

haha; no love.

4 Jun 28, 2010 2:31 pm

Emar

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☺☺☺

wow! much love! placid tones over glitchlicious breaks. LOVELY LOVELY downloaded

what did you use for composing?(if i may ask)

5 Jun 28, 2010 2:51 pm

ilkae

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montreal, qc

OpenMPT (modplug tracker); pre-VST functionality.
(a.k.a. .wav files and hex. same as always)

6 Jun 28, 2010 2:54 pm

herr_prof

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I liked it!

7 Jun 28, 2010 3:01 pm

RushCoil

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Bought. Really nice. It is obvious how unique and mind-blowing it is, so I'll leave it at that.

8 Jun 28, 2010 3:07 pm

ilkae

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montreal, qc

aw, thanks. i'm not exactly trying to drum up sales so much as just get the damn thing out there. it took months to reconstruct the album and to date it has only managed 200 downloads or so. it's a weird situation these days where releasing music for free gets you less exposure than throwing an arbitrary price tag on a collection of songs and letting the private bit torrent trackers go apeshit. (where, dun dun, it gets downloaded for free.)

9 Jun 28, 2010 6:23 pm

undergroundclouds

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Spokompton

Is the original available anywhere? I would love to compare and contrast.

10 Jun 28, 2010 8:19 pm

arfink

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Minneapolis

Oh yeah, I found this a while ago now. It is indeed excellent, and I'm proud to be one of those 200 people who downloaded. It's a great album, well worth the time it takes to download it and listen.