Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Magic and Music: Boros (Red-White)

http://www.lala.com/#memberplaylist/47893P81251/

The Boros compilation was one of the most difficult, and I'm not usually in the mood for it (although some are keen on it). The way I framed white and red music, combining them was like saying a did not equal a, but it came through eventually. As I don't own any military music or the Gladiator soundtrack, I had to scrounge a bit, but the main theme is mixing white's orderly songwriting and clean production with Red's tempo and loud, propulsive beats (like military music, the Boros set has the loudest snares of the compilations.) How well it coheres, I don't know, but there are plenty of great individual moments all through here, and it's a good album to pump you up without feeling all metal/dark.

Mu-Ziq - Scaling
UltraMax - Arwen's Song (Galadriel)
Way Out West - The Gift
Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke - Tempest [at least Gerrard was the female voice on the Gladiator soundtrack]
VNV Nation - Electronaut
Bassic - Instigator
Doves - Crunch
Way Out West - Spaceman
Hybrid - We Are in Control
Ken Ishii - Dinosaur.R
(Jackal) - Mounted-Machine Gun Funk
Blu Mar Ten - If I Could Tell You
Durutti Column - Meschugana

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