Sound Of Bass Presents:
Meander - Gazing Long Into The Abyss
Artist...............: Meander
Album................: Gazing Long Into The Abyss
Company..............: Tainted Audio
Catalog.Number.......: TNT010
Genre................: Hardcore
Storedate/Streetdate.: Jul-19-2014
Year.................: 2014
ReleaseDate..........: Jul-19-2014
Encoder..............: Lame 3.98.4 (VBR -V0)
Quality..............: 320kbps / 44,1kHz / Joint Stereo
Tracks...............: 15
PlayTime.............: 77:27
Size.................: 177,65 MB
Type.................: Album
Source...............: WEB
URL..................: http://taintedaudio.bandcamp.com/
Tracklist:
01. The Abyss [02:15]
02. Pretend [06:12]
03. Black Smoke (AK Industry RMX) [05:01]
04. Stranger [05:56]
05. Almost Evil [05:37]
06. Tainted [06:44]
07. Visions Of Demons [04:55]
08. Search Rescue [05:12]
09. Another Monster [05:20]
10. Endless Blackness (VIP) [05:57]
11. Lamb [01:15]
12. Lambaste [06:13]
13. Iconoclast [07:06]
14. Skeleton Dance [06:20]
15. Candle [03:24]
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Total Playtime.......: 77:27 min
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Release Notes:
The pressing, antagonistic and almost claustrophobia-inducing
sounds Meander introduced us to on his Carbon album on the well-
respected Low Res imprint in 2012 gets a follow-up in the form of
Gazing Long into the Abyss on Ruffneck’s Tainted Audio’s imprint.
Ophidian’s Meander project serves as an outlet that allows him to
take take us places his hardcore alias won’t, and this eagerness to
pursue the experimental shines through in the 15 tracks on Gazing
Long into the Abyss. Whereas 2012’s Carbon album was a foray into
the more dreamy and melody driven side of breakcore, Gazing Long
into the Abyss sets a much darker tone, taking drum & bass as the
middle ground and sees intense experimentation in all possible
directions.
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Really dissapointed in this. From a technical standpoint, yeah it's great, but it has no personality, it's nothing memorable. 5 minutes after listening all through it I couldn't remember a single track. I can always go listen to his last album as Ophidian though I guess.
its still MEANDER his dnb alias,so what do you expect? u like it or u like it not mate ;)
Pretty awesome stuff on it. I very very like it!
Something totally different from his normal productions.
If you like this side of Meander, you should also check that Carbon-album he did on Low Res.
"Totally different"? Crossbreed and breakcore are out there for years but since it's Ophidian (same with TOA) then ofc it's an absolute masterpiece by default, no self-repeating, completely different from their previous releases (e.g. Meta4 Recordings with its sublabels).
So because it's Ophidian it can't be a masterpiece? I think Ophidian's latest album is a mainstream shit but this one is beyond awesome...
I'm not sure if he was being sarcastic or not myself tbh. Ophidian's latest album is mostly pretty good to be fair there's not much mainstream on it, the majority is more industrial tinged older Enzyme X style stuff. I can't really say this Meander album is "beyond awesome" though, several times I've listened to it now and It's just so empty to me.
I'd say youre not really wrong but it's also the other way around. When people see tunes from mainstream producers like angerfist they immediately say it's shit just because a mainstream guy produced it.
If an industrial producer would make the same track out of fun they'd love it probably...
I don't really care who makes a track as long as it's really good. I hate Endymion now for what they currently make, but if they suddenly brought out a release like their older more serious non cheesy stuff I'de be all over that stuff like flies on shit.
If you make good stuff I won't care who ya are.
and ophidian became a bandwagoneering fuck..
the dnb part sounds like he studied Current value long and hard..
and well the crossbreed is on par with lowroller...
yeah I didn't like last Ophidian hardcore/crossbreed album at all but this darkstep I enjoy. Half the tracks not so big but Visions of Demons, Pretend, Stranger and Another Monster are real nice.. for me, I remember this stuff a lot more than most crossbreed/hardcore.. I'll play some of those 4 tunes in years to come... and my next mix for sure :) there is not enough darkstep anymore..