| Flashbulb, The / Kirlian Selections |
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| Album: | Kirlian Selections | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Flashbulb, The | Added: | Jan 2006 | |
| Label: | Sublight Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-01-15 | Pull Date: | 2006-03-19 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica, Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Mar 19 | Mar 12 | Mar 5 | Feb 26 | Feb 19 | Feb 12 | Feb 5 | Jan 29 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 12, 2015: | Audible Chocolate (11/12) Autumn Insomnia Session | 4. | Mar 16, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Lifeless Indoors | |
| 2. | Dec 11, 2012: | Electrowave Kirlian Choices | 5. | Mar 09, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Dakota June, (Cherokee Script) Highways | |
| 3. | Sep 20, 2006: | beat.net chapter 47.0: don't deep these (continued) Eyes Of June | 6. | Mar 02, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Lifeless Indoors |
| Album Review |
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| Wicked Child Reviewed 2006-01-11 | ||
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Drill-n-Bass/Breakcore meets Neo-classical. This album has a total split personality -- some tracks are pure somber piano, others are hard Warp/AFX/Squarepusher style drill-n-bass, others mix the two, and still others are completely random. Most of these tracks are surprisingly melodic. A lot of the tracks are mournful and beach-y (not just because of all the ambient shore noises), like someone going to a secluded beach house to figure stuff out. The album is mixed so that it could be played in chunks or as standalone tracks. DnB Picks: 4, 16, 23. Piano/Other Picks: 10, 14, 19. FCC Clean. --David Blackman (Wicked Child) 1) Subdued ambient meets IDM. Ending seems like it's going to go somewhere, but doesn't. (1:15) 2) Very very Squarepusher-y. Hard, driving DnB, varies its tempo a lot. (3:42) 3) Neo-classical piano meets Aphex-Twin drum loop. (2:00) **4) Another Squarepusher-y track, but with a soaring guitar power-solo that wants to break out. (2:35) 5) (2:12) 6) Cinematic, weary violin, with ambiance to add weight. (1:37) 7) Surprisingly restrained. Glitch melody over piano. Approaching beautiful then fades out at 2:58 to wave noises, comes back *crazy* at 3:17 with screaming distorted vocal. (3:35) 8) First minute belongs on the Matrix soundtrack, then standard Warp. Dies at 2:08 to bells to fade into the next track. (2:26) 9) Wants to be the intro to Trans-Siberian Orchestra piece. Somber, no beats, xylophone? (2:09) **10) Soaring ambient melody melded with occasional AFX-style drum loops. (3:19) 11) Twangy guitar note moving up and down moving into very high piano riff. (1:19) 12) Just a neo-classical piano. Very Pretty. (1:25) 13) Looped piano with electro beat, building into AFX. "Swirling." (3:05) **14) Post-rock sound -- drums, piano, guitar. Lots of drum solos. (3:25) 15) Neo-classical piano, gets very fast. Last 40s is ambient noise. (2:51) **16) 50-50 mix of restrained piano and crazy drill-and-bass. Nearly unlistenable drilling 3:40-3:50, comes back sedated. (5:03) 17) Indian feel, sunrise. Quizzical/curious piano sound. (1:52) 18) Could be the backing track to very chill hip-hop. Repeated piano scale. (3:19) **19) Hopeful synth, heavy bass, picked guitar (1:53) 20) Great melding of piano and drum-n-bass beats. (2:48) 21) Piano! Slow. Has a finality to it. Sad. Fades into next track. (1:43) 22) Bassy computerized voice, synth line, clapping drums. (3:03) **23) Restrained drill-n-bass. Music for a struggling robot film noir detective. (2:32) 24) Yes, a cover of the Mamas and the Papas. Very subdued vocals, loud piano, scratch beat. Fades to nothing at 1:50, Takes 40s of near-silence to build itself up to a beautiful piano track with ambient beach noises. (3:43) 25) Cinematic strings. (1:46) 26) Strings again, with finger picked guitar. Last 13s are near-silence. (2:13) 27) Piano + guitar intro. Upbeat. Sitar enters at 1min. At 1:30 guitar with time-of-your-life strings and singer-songwriter vocals. Unexpected. (3:03) 28) Somber jazz. Rainy feel. White noise 1:30-1:45. (1:45) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Eyes Of June | 15. | Shortcuts | |||
| 2. | Binedump | 16. | Kirlian Choices | |||
| 3. | Passage D | 17. | (Cherokee Script) Highways | |||
| 4. | Lawn Wake Ix | 18. | (Cherokee Script) Highways | |||
| 5. | Mellann | 19. | Dakota June | |||
| 6. | Kirlian Isles I | 20. | Parkways | |||
| 7. | Kirlian Isles Ii | 21. | Lifeless Indoors | |||
| 8. | Dishevel | 22. | Six Months Without Light | |||
| 9. | My Life Of Loving Ghosts | 23. | (Cherokee Script) | |||
| 10. | Kirlian Shores | 24. | California Dreaming | |||
| 11. | At One Last Night | 25. | Kirlian Changes | |||
| 12. | Blackout | 26. | Kirlian Isles Iii | |||
| 13. | Creep | 27. | Miles And Miles | |||
| 14. | Autumn Insomnia Session | 28. | Five Karots |