Hidden Staircase 12", The

General | May 2006

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2006-05-17
Very interesting expermimental sample-art mixing found sounds, sampled interviews, and jazz, trip-hop and electro, some sounding like a very advanced Portishead, others obtuse noise. Great stuff.

1) very brief commentary about crap music, nice
2) downtempo a bit electro, with samples from the Who, Billy Holiday/Sarah Vaughan type female vocs, over non-stop guitar arpeggios, dark noisey and creepy strange
3) starts with a voice sample, becomes a brief marching piece
4) proggy jazz sample/feel with dark looping swirling bass, brief
5) repeat of #1
6) dark tones start, then total Trip Hop feel a la Portishead but way more interesting, cool
7) long track: the Portishead trip hop flavor continues in a big way, with a Bjork sample, but then it quickly devolves to obscure spacey experimentalism, then back again where it treats the trip hop to point of unrecognizability then just experimental noise

Recent airplay

Since I Met You
microclimateFeb 25, 2011
Since I Met You
brownian MotionJul 05, 2006
Filler Song
Brownian Motion (sub)Jun 28, 2006
Since I Met You
Under the RadarJun 23, 2006
Filler Song
Brownian MotionJun 21, 2006
Untitled One
Cognitive OverloadJun 17, 2006

Charting

2006-05-21 — 2006-07-23 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Jul 9 1
Jul 2 1
Jun 25 2
Jun 18 1
Jun 11 1
May 28 5

Track listing

1. Filler Song
2. Since I Met You
3. Deathmetalbboy
4. To The Sea
5. Filler Song
6. Untitled One
7. Since I Met You (Alive At Fake Cake)
8. Since I Met You (Yao's Kiribati Adjstmnt)
9. Since I Met You (Dj Enso Remix)
10. Since I Met You (Roche 7five Remix)