You are a Beautiful and Unique Blog Reader

Discuss

Functioning (or not-quite-functioning as it were) as I am this morning on less than three hours of sleep has me feeling like the nameless protagonist in Fight Club when he discovers why he feels so tired all the time. I’m not living quite as exciting a lifestyle as he was, but as exhausted as I feel I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out somebody pulled a “changeover” on me when I wasn’t looking too.

In director David Fincher’s 1999 film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Tyler Durden and company were lucky enough to have the Dust Brothers (known for their groundbreaking work on The Beastie Boys‘ classic Paul’s Boutique LP and their work with Beck) providing the soundtrack for their fictional lives. In need of a suitably cinematic soundtrack of my own this morning, bleary-eyed, I turned to the music of Discuss, a.k.a. Andres Ortiz-Ferrari, a San Juan, Puerto Rico-bred, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based beatmaker, musician and artist.

Discuss ‘Aeration Swells’The music on Discuss’ self-released sophomore LP Aeration Swells is the sort of rich, gritty amalgm of vintage keyboard tones and dirty drums chopped and reconfigured to create a new formula complimented by elements like retro vinyl crackle, samples, ethereal vocals, futuristic electronic twitch-n-glitch and an infusion of live, non-electronic instrumentation, that makes Ortiz-Ferrari worthy of cooking in the Dust Brothers’ lab. It’s got both feet planted firmly to the concrete cityscape of Hip-Hop and Electronica/IDM, and it’s fingertips are dusty from flipping through the treasures unearthed via vinyl archeology, but it’s head is in the clouds of far-out psychedelia, spacey Prog-Rock and experimental Indie/Alt-Rock.

Thom YorkeListening to Aeration Swells I’m reminded all at once of the genrelessness of Dust Brothers collaborator Beck, the contemporary progressiveness and adventurousness of Radiohead, Blogarhythms favorites Hot Chip’s unclassifiability and mechanical soulfulness, and the gently hiccuping laptop rhythms as well as the delicately beautiful voices of The Postal Service’s admittedly limited output. The barely understandable vocals on most of the songs remind me most of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, but Ortiz-Ferrari’s mumbliness shares qualities in common with the aforementioned erstwhile Scientologist and his heavenly harmonies would make Alexis Taylor and Ben Gibbard proud.

The album also makes for a nice companion to slept-on releases from Canadian IDM crooner Milosh (whose new track on the ‘Ghostly Swim’ compilation is near perfection) & Ohio/New York-based band Skeletons (a.k.a. Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys and Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities). And fans of the Plug Research & Ghostly International labels should find Aeration Swells a welcome addition to their collections.

Discuss “133 331″

It’s already inspiring a little more relaxation and a lot less mayhem in my own day, hopefully it’ll do the same for you.

This entry was written by El Keter, posted on May 15, 2008 at 10:50 am, filed under Music and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

34 Comments

  1. emeyesi

    Posted May 20, 2008 at 1:57 pm
    Permalink

    ^^^^ Everything he said.

    Yo. I need this.

  2. Andres: from discuss

    Posted May 27, 2008 at 4:25 pm
    Permalink

    Mannnnnyyyy thanks to whomever wrote this, much appreciated.
    just a lil correction, for “Aeration Swells” I only did 8% of the vocal lines. Much credit is to be given to Jim Doutrich, who was the main vocalist for this release.

    again,
    humbling words…. thank you.
    andres (discuss/olimpic86)

  3. niherasebekei

    Posted September 3, 2008 at 5:23 am
    Permalink

    Cool blog.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  4. werewolf

    Posted September 5, 2008 at 7:08 am
    Permalink

    Amazine site
    Thanks, webmaster.

  5. Svetlana

    Posted September 5, 2008 at 10:10 pm
    Permalink

    Amazine site
    Thanks, webmaster.

  6. Svetlana

    Posted September 5, 2008 at 10:43 pm
    Permalink

    Beautifull design
    Thanks, webmaster.

  7. helmet

    Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:52 am
    Permalink

    Nice site.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  8. helmet

    Posted September 8, 2008 at 12:37 pm
    Permalink

    Amazing site.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  9. helmet

    Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:28 pm
    Permalink

    Beautiful design.
    Thanks, admin.

  10. were to buy

    Posted September 11, 2008 at 7:42 am
    Permalink

    Cool blog.
    Thanks, admin.

  11. halloween

    Posted September 11, 2008 at 2:11 pm
    Permalink

    Cool blog.
    Thanks, admin.

  12. halloween

    Posted September 11, 2008 at 2:31 pm
    Permalink

    Beautiful design.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  13. pictures of halloween costumes

    Posted September 11, 2008 at 5:59 pm
    Permalink

    Beautiful design.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  14. toys r us halloween costumes

    Posted September 11, 2008 at 9:31 pm
    Permalink

    Cool blog.
    Thanks, admin.

  15. illusion halloween costumes

    Posted September 11, 2008 at 9:43 pm
    Permalink

    Cool blog.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  16. power ranger halloween costumes

    Posted September 11, 2008 at 9:50 pm
    Permalink

    Nice site.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  17. Elena

    Posted September 12, 2008 at 1:00 pm
    Permalink

    Amazing site.
    Thanks, admin.

  18. Pavel

    Posted September 12, 2008 at 5:12 pm
    Permalink

    Nice site.
    Thanks, admin.

  19. Pavel

    Posted September 12, 2008 at 8:46 pm
    Permalink

    Amazing site.
    Thanks, admin.

  20. Elena

    Posted September 13, 2008 at 4:01 am
    Permalink

    Nice site.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  21. Pavel

    Posted September 13, 2008 at 4:21 am
    Permalink

    Amazing site.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  22. Marina

    Posted September 13, 2008 at 12:49 pm
    Permalink

    Cool blog.
    Thanks, admin.

  23. Elena

    Posted September 14, 2008 at 2:12 pm
    Permalink

    Cool blog.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  24. Maria

    Posted September 14, 2008 at 5:24 pm
    Permalink

    Beautiful design.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  25. Maria

    Posted September 14, 2008 at 8:18 pm
    Permalink

    Nice site.
    Thanks, admin.

  26. Marina

    Posted September 15, 2008 at 6:39 am
    Permalink

    Beautiful design.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  27. Maria

    Posted September 15, 2008 at 6:56 am
    Permalink

    Amazing site.
    Thanks, webmaster.

  28. Sveta

    Posted September 15, 2008 at 9:37 am
    Permalink

    Amazing site.
    Thanks, admin.

  29. Marina

    Posted September 15, 2008 at 9:48 am
    Permalink

    Nice site.
    Thanks, admin.

  30. Maria

    Posted September 15, 2008 at 9:54 am
    Permalink

    Beautiful design.
    Thanks, admin.

  31. Prednisone

    Posted May 22, 2009 at 5:56 pm
    Permalink

    buy prednisone

  32. Wellbutrin

    Posted May 23, 2009 at 6:13 am
    Permalink

    wellbutrin online

  33. Ativan

    Posted May 26, 2009 at 5:42 pm
    Permalink

    buy ativan

  34. claegborne

    Posted June 3, 2009 at 6:48 pm
    Permalink

    glacial expected pnas techniques earth environmental

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*