Monday, June 23, 2014

deathtokoalas
yeah. i'm not really a fan of colin's other stuff (i can handle bits of krallice because it's really a type of hardcore but would like it a lot better if it was instrumental. i just find the vocals get in the way, preventing relistening.) but this just blew me away when i first heard it. i actually stumbled upon this when it was pretty fresh, before his other projects really got off the ground, on a random google search for frank zappa. there was another search term, but i can't remember it. this was about '08 or so. the climax of this has to be one of the most ridiculous things i've ever heard. and i specialize in liking ridiculous music :).


deathtokoalas
i have really vivid memories of blaring this through a pair of giant headphones while stumbling around stoned through the underground tunnels of carleton university at around 4:00 am, preparing graduate level mathematics assignments in automata theory.

MATH RAWK. lol....

must have helped, though. i think it's the only pure math exam i ever got 100% on, although i aced a few programming exams in the same period, too. i was this, some early 65dos and some later boredoms that were the staples in the mp3 player at the time...

so, you know, fuck mozart.....

Timothy E.  
"i can handle bits of krallice because it's really a type of hardcore" what?

deathtokoalas
krallice seem to have a specific bent coming out of post-hardcore that is most noticeable in the tremolo guitar work.
i suppose that, standing in 1966, this would have been really radical and different.

but, standing in 1996, and beyond, what defines the record is how simplistic and boring it is relative to the other psychedelic rock of the period. reality: zappa, beatles, hendrix, moody blues, floyd did it better. this may have been first, but it just doesn't cut it, in comparison.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZ2pziuLjo