For Many Birthdays

Tomo
Daft Alliance
General | May 2006

Reviews

TBXTX12
Reviewed 2006-06-24

Complicated electronica. Very polyrhythmic + polyphonic, vaguely aleatoric. Tone colors aren't too varied, bleeps + bloops of an older synth. Though the sounds can be aggressive, the overall mood of the tracks tends to be playful. Tracks have a couple different sections, the songs definitely evolve. The music is busy, at best an electronica marching band, at worst spaghetti in a blender...hard to take in large doses. Almost all tracks are med tempo. All instrumental. NO FCCs.

1-(5:22) Fire Alarm, trill/machine gun stutter perc. melody split between fire alarm + childlike synth.
2-(3:50) Snaky synth line over chaotic soundbed of clatters. Gets sparser halfway through.
3-(4:48) A hip hop beat, but the drum machine has been accidently rewired randomly through a synth.
4-(4:18) Four on the floor... 11/4. Nintendo bubbles, milliwatt tones. worrying strings.
5-(4:05) Underlying crickets loop. Busy with two melodies lots of looped rhythms.
6-(4:40) Slow, deliberate melody. 1/2way picks up, floor tom, creaking door, pfunk noises. Last 40s rattles.
7-(5:39) watery bass melody, looped rhythmic clatter.-3:30 quiet. motifs re-enter 1 by 1 but with variation.
8-(5:22) looped guitar+banjo with more+more effects. Last minute space age interference.
9-(3:38) Fast and busy.
10-(3:48) Obviously syncopated/stuttered with snare hits. More Prefuse-y.

Recent airplay

Le Me (See) Think? See?
Big Love ShowAug 23, 2010
Time Is Me And It's Moving
Whistle Wind
Akinetic MutismAug 07, 2006
Figureskate
Friday sub, and Sparks!Jul 21, 2006
Little Appiarance
Akinetic MutismJul 17, 2006
Time Is Me And It's Moving
Baptism of SolitudeJul 13, 2006

Charting

2006-07-02 — 2006-09-03 Electronic
Week EndingAirplays
Aug 13 2
Jul 23 2
Jul 16 2
Jul 9 3

Track listing

1. Time Is Me And It's Moving
2. Save As Not My House
3. Figureskate
4. Sometimes Dreams Shouldn't Come True
5. Whistle Wind
6. Little Appiarance
7. More And More Is Coming
8. On Kee Three You Five
9. Le Me (See) Think? See?
10. How Much I Understand Not