Collected Animals

For me, this is peak Panda Bear and nails everything he's great at. Neither are my favourite songs he's written but paired together, this is as good a b2b as anything in the AC oeuvre.

As he stretches out the looped beats into his fourth (forthcoming) album, he's never conjured up such total bangers anywhere else. Gyeah has an irresistible jump up bounce to it, that slight delay makes it absolutely bang. When I'm drumming along in the car, I have to splay my fingers and plink that shit out to get the delay effect. It's a glorious stomp, so direct but at the same time splintered, it never seems to land in exactly the same way. Jabba is perhaps even better. More obvious, more lumpen, more plodding, it's fuckin relentless. It's like the transformed Kirkhammer in Bloodborne. SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM until you run out of stamina. Added to that, you have those colossal ringing stabs, metallic as fuck but polished like bright clanging brass.

Do I even need to talk about the vocals. No

Oh, those ATP Demos are so good!

We have 2 recordings, right?, but IIRC, Sonic Boom told us there was another demo recorded of those ATP sessions that felt more personal, so he didn't have the permission to release it at the time... Wondering if Panda can give Sonic the green light now, wouldn't that be cool?

Ya I was disappointed when they got separated from each other, they worked so well back to back.. The transition in the ATP set was perfect. At least we have the soundboard recording though

I cant relate to your bloodborne analogy though cause i always play dexterity characters in souls games.

thank you for making a post about this

obsessed with those trax like no other .. will never shut up about how upset i am that he didn’t do that in the studio

there’s a certain melancholy in the demo jabberwocky that is completely obliterated in the studio version

will someone please crunchatize me w one of these? thanks!!!

the original cosplay with the THX sample was about top for me

I wish we had the demos of the other songs from that era (come to your senses, untying the knot, sequential circuits, butcher....)

hook us up with a youtube link at least....

This is the only youtube I could find, but the quality is just a phone in the crowd.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/4i2r22llt ... 6++MP3.zip <- This is a link to the soundboard recording of that whole set that Sonic Boom posted on here so it's perfect quality

Over the past six months or so I've finally come to get familiar this period of PB (prerelease reaper), and it's kinda blown my socks off. I had listened to Reaper and found it sort of dull outside of some favorite tracks and the EPs didn't leave any sort of impression. Then I found the ATP soundboard recording and at first I didn't really "get it" but I ended up falling in love with Ms Pacman. I loved the way the "Pacman" sample was so up in the mix and in your face, like it was an huge force interfering with the rest of the track or something, fighting with the vocals and synths. It makes the track so stormy and chaotic, and it does make me recall the feeling of looking at and hearing your favorite machine, seemingly quiet in a huge noisey arcade. It's a real shame to me that the Pacman sample is so low in the studio version.

I totally didn't understand gyeah or jabberwocky, but this thread definitely helped me get it. I love Bloodborne so maybe that triggered it. The vocals are just so alluring over those beats and synths, and that transition is just amazing. Other tracks just sound like they have so much going on compared to the studio version, maybe they are there but they are deemphasized in the mix. The whole "electronic storm" sound just appeals so much to me, I love how messy it sounds.

I remember back the very first time I heard Mr Noah, it was the studio version because back then I didn't follow the solo works outside of the studio releases. The huge synth in the intro combined with the dog sample made me think of a huge wooly lumbering dog dashing toward you slobbering everywhere, so happy because he hasn't seen his owner in a long time. That synth was so wild, unhinged and slobbery I was hoping it would show back up in the song and *really* let loose, but it didn't. In fact there was nothing really that "crazy" on the album after that track. I came to love Reaper eventualy but it took more time. But when I found the boot, it was like finding a whole new PB album where all the ideas like that were there.

It leaves me with the feeling that Reaper *could* have been something much, much more ambitious. Its been talked about a lot so I won't speculate about the change in direction. The fact that it's relatively unknown compared to the studio work probably adds to the feeling of this eras specialness. It seems so typical that a whole chapter of AC-dom, that is just as engaging to me as their commonly known as "peak" period, would be hidden in between releases and relatively untalked about outside of this board. Very happy I went down the PB rabbit hole. There are still tracks from this era that I think haven't still fully clicked, and I look forward to to listening to them more.

tl;dr the ATP demo fucking rules

Yes to all of that.

Plus the Bruce Lee sample and the waz up are classic too

Shame he didn't add that in this round of nml

The demo is pure reaper

lol it's Joseph gordon levitt not Bruce Lee, but ya it's a great sample

itts so fucking saddening to me that it didnt end on the dolby digital soundtest noise. it was so perfect. and it was funny too. he forgot about so many of the weird but funny things in live like the tai fighter and wazzup samples in mans and the apoc now samples in pot...make me cry fellas...sequential circuits on the record is amazing tho

Didn’t he leave those out because he couldn’t clear the samples?

yeah i dont think he forgot lmao

he might've forgot...