Burial literally invented his own style of drum beat rhythm and vocal electronic manipulation that you hear in tons of music today from edm like disclosure to mainstream pop and rap like drake.
Why don't more people recognize him for being so innovative and influential?
The rhythms are just syncopated, shuffly drum patterns. He's great at it but that was "invented" a century ago.
He uses a few other tricks, usually for atmosphere and aesthetic (weird EQing, very little deep low end, lots of ambient environmental samples, pitch shifting reverb of some kind) but none of it is innovative, he's just good at executing.
Austin Flores
BoC shouldn't even count as IDM. The drum sequencing is super lazy and repetitive.
David Jackson
>IDM is about drum sequencing I'm getting fucking tired of this IDM meme. It's a made up thing made by a forum in the 90's describing some Warp artists people liked. Fuck off.
Joshua Morgan
because he intentionally stayed out of the public eye. however, he has gotten a fair amount of recognition for the very things you're talking about, so I'm not sure what your point is
next stupid question
Ryder Collins
>quantized drums >timbral quality is nowhere similar
try again
Lucas Fisher
IDM is experimental, progressive, and/or innovative dance music. That's all.
Anthony Morgan
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Joshua Watson
I'm aware of the origin and usage.
The words "retard" and "faggot" are still commonly used despite being loaded. IDM is loaded but it's part of the lexicon now. Calling out others for using it is even more pretentious than the acronym itself.
Robert Martinez
No, I'm pretty sure using the term ''Intelligent Dance Music'' is way more pretentious than calling someone out for not even knowing what the term ''means''.
Jonathan Russell
You said it's a made up term that means nothing, but it's entered the common music vocab and stayed fixed.
Laugh Out Loud sounds stupid, lol stuck. Intelligent Dance Music sounds stupid, IDM stuck. The acronym is greater than the sum of its constituents. English is a dynamic language.
Until a new category term appears and gains traction, I and everyone else will still call it IDM.
Robert Barnes
idm is fucking wank regardless of what its "connotations" are
Jason Bell
fuck off simon
Bentley Jones
holy shit you're retarded
>lmao PROVE to me that anyone used violins before the beatles!!!! >HAHA that mozart piece is TOTALLY DIFFERNET BRO it s got DIFFERENT NOTEs and shit@@!!!
John Torres
>Until a new category term appears how about calling the albums/tracks by their genre. Autechre is techno Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is (like the name suggests) ambient and Burial is 2 step.
Jose Parker
>Burial is 2 step burial is future garage
Camden Williams
T. Someone who clearly learned the phrase "quantized drums" within the past day or so
Xavier Thompson
Because genre isn't the only useful classifier. Autechre, Burial, and Aphex are different genres but share a fundamental cross-genre percussion and mid/high BPM similarity.
"Wave" vs. "core" is another example.
Jeremiah Hughes
no wonder burial never wanted to talk to ppl idiots ITT would make me kill somebody
Dylan Myers
When you start fucking with drum VSTs or drum machines, it's super easy to recognize. Everything sounds straight, griddy, and perfect.
Evan Hernandez
no its just you being an arse because you don't wanna call things what it is. The artist themselves don't use those terms. why should we?
Mason Myers
The critic is the true artist.
t. scaruffi
Jackson Reed
>this song doesn't 100% match burial's style >yep! must not be similar!
cunt.
Liam Rogers
nice non arguments and false analogy
>burial rhythms >heavily syncopated, out of time (not shuffles, not grooves) drums >that characteristic metalic tone with lightspeed attack >weird shit used as rudiments (lighters, videogame samples, etc) >crackling noise sidechained to the drum channel >pitchshifted reverb
>Why don't more people recognize him for being so innovative and influential? burial is wildly acclaimed and Sup Forums loves him
Aaron Foster
BTFO
Gabriel Lee
that same song was posted itt and my initial post was quoting it. are you even paying attention?
Isaiah Bell
Name a song with similar rhythms to burial before burial name a song with metallic sounding drums before burial name a song with pitch warped and chopped up vocals before burial
James Edwards
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Gavin Stewart
nobody here is dissing burial u fucking retard were just saying theres obvious influences and his shit wasnt created completely out of the blue
Charles Jenkins
>start off argument saying "drum beat rhythms" >get proven wrong >now have to start moving the goalposts and bring up things like samples, effects and reverb
the truth is that he was an amateur trying to recreate garage beats on shitty software without a sequencer and he ended up making something good by a fluke really.
thats why hes been struggling to make anything good when he moves away from that style, he is a fluke.