Collected Animals

i really don't understand how you got to this point from someone saying "x was my favorite show i had such a great time"

if that's all it needs to be, then why are you on a message board talking about this band for seven years? that's not just enjoying a good memory!

Because it's fun and feels good to talk about music and experiences you love with people on the same wavelength
None of my friends in real life care about this band at all, so I cherish being able to chat on here and share the passion for this music that means so much to me

I see what you're getting at with the metaphysical stuff but I think it's really a lot simpler than you think! I hope you're doing ok

Totally feel what you’re saying Natalidae, I have asked myself about fandom many times, whether or not it’s a waste of time to pine over others’ greatness, but it’s mostly life affirming so I stick around and keep consuming art like it’s an education

Also didn’t mean to offend w the word “neuroses”, thought it was fair game considering your original thought was a negative one

I don't want to put anyone above me (or beneath me, for that matter) but surely not being able to top that show as a live music experience means that it was particularly special? But how would you define the particularly special without measuring the distance between you and it and you and everything else you are comparing it to? This is what I meant by irritated. What are any of us still doing here at all? Don't you ever secretly ask yourself that?!

Who fucking cares lol

I mean sometimes it's difficult to truly know what something means, or what it should mean to you. It's easy to ascribe an excess of importance to things when you're a fan of them. Like there are times when I'm listening to music that hasn't been released yet, like a lot of AC's music, and I think that it will somehow change the world when it comes out. It's a thought that may come and go with time, but it may hold real significance to you in that place and time because of the way it makes you feel. Later you may look back and realize the years have passed and nothing has changed in yourself or the world around you. Things have moved on. I think that could happen with anything involving visceral emotions... Relationships are a big one: the feeling of a kiss, thinking about things you could have said, regret or longing for a missed opportunity. At that moment it may seem like the most monumental thing to you but as you get older it fades away and you look at how it changed you and how you reacted to it. A semblance of the feeling may still be there but the initial strength of it may seem strange to you.

I think this board helps with reflecting and not being trapped in your own bubble, to know that there are other freaks out there who also cherish the things you do, to help you feel less alone in this thing that you care about. And to remember that initial feeling and not feel guilty about it. I still have difficulty with reconciling how musicians even see their own music because sometimes when you overanalyze it (or any art) the magic is lost. There's a lot of music that I listen to that means a great deal to me, where I wonder if the source even sees all dimensions of it or whether they're plunking some chords out and mixing it up only to move on to the next project.

Sorry if that makes no sense..

I drifted into the venue. It was dark and, weirdly, quiet, but a soup of people. And then it happened: that grungy, pulsing guitar chord that begins “For Reverend Green.” My bones heard it. What in the hell? Feels was barely a few months old. What do you mean they are playing new songs already? I’m not the emotive, this-band-is-my-life mess of a youth I was on that night in Seattle many, many years ago, but I still sometimes think of that moment. My fandom is tempered now, but I’m still here because these boys are magicians. I’m still here hoping Wheeter shows up again. There is something cosmic going on with them, with the sounds they conjure-up, and in a world as disenchanted as ours I’m desperate for a glimpse of the mystery. Well, here it is. I’m ashamed of a lot, but not my infatuation with the art these boys make. “And behold, it was very good.”

Sorry if that makes no sense..

No, no. Beautifully said. Thank you.

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The sung tongs or feb 24th painting with show 2016 are my favorites for sure

Sung Tongs tour (2018) was amazeballs. I spent so much money on merch...

rohcti wrote:

Sorry if that makes no sense..

No, no. Beautifully said. Thank you.

Thanks for the kind words. I sort of feel weird being sappy like that but I wanted to convey that it's nice being on here to make some sort of connection with other people that like the band (seeing as my friends in real life don't freaking plebs ).

I'm really jealous that you got to see a show around the Feels era, that sounds like an amazing experience. I'm an MPP bandwagoner through and through and the earliest show I saw was CHz era

Thinking Sinister Grift might be the moniker Noah & Pete have taken on

^very possible, I was thinking Sonic Bear but Sinister Grift sounds cooler lol

I thought it was funny how Noah mentioned on his Twitter that he wanted Young Prayer to come out on Star Trak (tongue in cheek probably) and then I realized that he and Pharrell won a Grammy for the same album. What a strange world

panda boom

Noah Kember
Petek Lennox

Xpetek the Un-Noahxpetekted: Notorious Coat Wearer Meets the Sonic Riddler

last night at the jetty + surfer's hymn

how the fuck did noah write these songs? they are so brilliant and perfect it's as if they were discovered moreso than written

last night at the jetty + surfer's hymn

how the fuck did noah write these songs? they are so brilliant and perfect it's as if they were discovered moreso than written

lol sometimes I wonder what notes he uses because nobody writes melodies like him. He seems to always aim for satisfying melodic payoffs. It’s so easy being a fan of him

roopn wrote:

last night at the jetty + surfer's hymn

how the fuck did noah write these songs? they are so brilliant and perfect it's as if they were discovered moreso than written

lol sometimes I wonder what notes he uses because nobody writes melodies like him. He seems to always aim for satisfying melodic payoffs. It’s so easy being a fan of him

Too right!

Hey everyone!

I did a little remix of panda's grim reaper album and a separate remix of all the EP tracks too.
not sure if or how I'm aloud to share this on here but I guess ill just post some mediafire links.
I remember when the album came out, a lot of people really missed the great transitions and build ups all those songs had when he played them live.
I tried really hard to use the cleanest live recordings to use for transitions and such (the least amount of crowd noise as possible)

I used sounds from
ATP Rehearsal
Red Bull Stream
Boiler Room
Morning Becomes Electric
La Gaîté Lyrique
DESPERSONALIZAÇÃO / The Stretch of Life
& files sonic boom posted on here

No Mans Land has the WAZZUP part added in
I used the 'Cosplay (Tracking Mix 1)' that sonic gave us and used the intro of the 'Acid Wash (Demo)'
I added in some harmony vocals Noah sings live for 'Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker'
I used the Morning Becomes Electric live version of 'Faces in the Crowd' instead of the studio version because I like the dynamics more when its not just a consistent unchanging beat throughout (plus its a super clean recording too)
also used the first half of a live version of 'Come to Your Senses' which goes into the part where the drum track comes in (for more dynamics)
etc etc...

the track listings are a little different but I think it all flows really well together. hope y'all dig it!

i'm also working on a 'sung tongs' live reworked album right now too

https://www.mediafire.com/file/g5tges7d ... ).zip/file (for the album remix)
Sequential Circuits
Crosswords
Boys Latin
Mr Noah
Faces in the Crowd (this song should've been on the album haha)
Come to Your Senses
Tropic of Cancer
Untying The Knot (This one just really fits on here back to back with tropic)
Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker
Principe Real
Selfish Gene
Cosplay (felt like this was a better fit for the last track than acid wash)
Outro (THX)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/8fr6rqiv ... ).zip/file (EP's Remix)
No Mans Land
Lisbon Zoo
Jabberwocky
Lonely Wanderer (this just fit with these tracks really well)
Acid Wash

Thanks!

Between the Never Ending Game/Woo! vocal features and the sample snippets PB shared on twittland, I am beyond amped to hear what the vocal work sounds like on the upcoming tunes. This might be the sweetest spot I've heard him in, melodically and production-wise. The mind goes wild with what's to come...

I think the vocal loops on twitter were all sample

(apologies to have turned this into the general PB thread)

Listening to Greaper today, really enjoyed Butcher Baker - lyrics almost totally impenetrable in a wonderful way, and it occurs to me the track is very bossa nova in terms of melody, chords and structure
Would be interesting one to revisit if noah ever goes for that three piece live instrumentation he talked about a while ago

headroom))) wrote:

meysell wrote:

almost three years on… recency bias is over, the vinyl mix of Homies might be my fav thing noah’s ever done. no shade to what he and rusty did on the digital mix but those extended intros and outros are fuckin gorgeous

The intros and outros were such a joy to hear. I love them on the live shows so much that I get stuck on them being part of the song (demoitis) so when the album/ep version comes out it kinda feels lacking without them.

If only Crosswords had a long intro like Flight... I must've listened to the SF Fillmore version of it 200 times, no joke. It was also one of the top 5 shows I've ever seen.

I lovvveeee AC!!!

no exaggeration i listen to that boot like once a week, that was indeed one of the best shows i've ever seen, definitely in anco universe. (profile pic me n noah after that show)

That's awesome man! Those visuals were transcendent. I felt like I was watching 2001 A Space Odyssey on acid in the 60s. A visual and sonic brain melter. All hail PB and the great Danny Perez!

Paging xPetekx...

can you share anything about the tracks noah played in madrid yesterday? did you work together on these?
hope your tour is going well

I'm so excited

I love that some of the new tracks have a doo wop thing going on

Can anyone ID a piece of Noah's gear?

https://imgur.com/a/MpdLupP

Hope that Sinister Grift explores more of the playing the long game hypeness

I want that Sonic Boom collab! Where's it at?!

Thx Daffy Duck! excited to listen

Religious bop has been stuck in my head all day...

cant get the chord progression for ends meet out of my head. love these songs so much.

this is the same thing i said in 2013… and in 2017… but i really hope that the final versions have the same raw, hard-hitting sparseness

Can anyone ID a piece of Noah's gear?

https://imgur.com/a/MpdLupP

hey man i havent heard the boot proper yet but u guys r talking about weird pitchshifting stuff. i know there are some old boss rack modules that do delay pitchshifting stuff, though im not familiar enoughto id the exact one. it looks like the back of one for sure tho . couldbe the de-200

i didnt think he was using any gear to pitch shift? just bending guitar strings, making chords weird

i didnt think he was using any gear to pitch shift? just bending guitar strings, making chords weird

No, its delay manipulation. When you mess with delay time while notes are playing it does that trippy fx. AC has been using this trick forever.

preakness wrote:

Can anyone ID a piece of Noah's gear?

https://imgur.com/a/MpdLupP

hey man i havent heard the boot proper yet but u guys r talking about weird pitchshifting stuff. i know there are some old boss rack modules that do delay pitchshifting stuff, though im not familiar enoughto id the exact one. it looks like the back of one for sure tho . couldbe the de-200

I was thinking the same thing. I thought it was the RPS 10 which I own because it has a pitch shifting delay that's really unique but I don't think the back matches exactly. I do think you could use an expression pedal to effect the delay time which Noah is doing somehow with this set up. Could be whatever this box is

speen wrote:

i didnt think he was using any gear to pitch shift? just bending guitar strings, making chords weird

No, its delay manipulation. When you mess with delay time while notes are playing it does that trippy fx. AC has been using this trick forever.

he was doing that while he was playing guitar? wonder how he was triggering it, because it wasn't consistent the entire time, and im pretty sure the OT wasn't playing a sequence beyond a simple loop

preakness wrote:

speen wrote:

i didnt think he was using any gear to pitch shift? just bending guitar strings, making chords weird

No, its delay manipulation. When you mess with delay time while notes are playing it does that trippy fx. AC has been using this trick forever.

he was doing that while he was playing guitar? wonder how he was triggering it, because it wasn't consistent the entire time, and im pretty sure the OT wasn't playing a sequence beyond a simple loop

my bet is an expression pedal controlling delay time with his foot

does anyone else get La Bamba vibes from [ends meet] ?

totally hearing the dion & the belmonts in a wormhole vibes as mentioned by sonicccc