C002 - El Wraith vs. Son Of Liberty

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Amon Tobin - El Wraith (Download it!)

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What if Juno's kid sister Liberty Bell had a kid?
Tommie - Son of Liberty (Download it!)

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Son of Liberty was really boring until it finally dawned on me exactly what the track was, then it was just hilarious.

El Wraith is good enough here.

I couldn't really stand either, but at least "Son of Liberty" had some adrenaline.

Putting aside the fact I'm kind of a fan of Amon Tobin already, Tommie's track is, to my untrained ear, just an average techno-ish song.

I will continue to use uncertain, awkward terms like "techno-ish" and "(blank)-sounding" to avoid stepping on anyone's toes with my uninformed music descriptions.

Okay, there are some melodies that can work well into a trance-like dance song. This one is not one of them.

Son of Liberty would probably go down well in a club, but it sounds quite average out of it. And, for some reason, I actually felt uncomfotable listening to it.

I'm not that into El Wraith either but I liked it better than Son of Liberty.

What is UP with bracket 2? Wow, middling.

"Alright, not too shabby, good energy, an-.... oh my, it's that son of liberty." And then I couldn't help laughing as it continued its progression -- ended up voting El Wraith.

I didn't like both tracks. Going with one that didn't make me sleep.

Not the biggest Amon Tobin fan you'll see, but "El Wraith" did much more for me. (The first weak pairing I've encountered)

Originally Posted by Ah! Amoeba

Putting aside the fact I'm kind of a fan of Amon Tobin already, Tommie's track is, to my untrained ear, just an average techno-ish song.

I will continue to use uncertain, awkward terms like "techno-ish" and "(blank)-sounding" to avoid stepping on anyone's toes with my uninformed music descriptions.

It's European Trance, or slightly gay Hard House, depending on where the guy's from.

I liked both these tracks. The Amon Tobin tune is something I'd probably listen to again and whilst it's not nearly as good as anything from some of the masters of chillout (The Orb, Banco de Gaia, Orbital, Aphex Twin etc), it's decent enough. My only criticism is that it's a bit busy for my tastes but that's just me.

Son of Liberty I liked and it's a decent enough trancey house tune that unlike most VGM based dance tracks doesn't sound like it was written by a 16 year old who's never been clubbing.

Tough call this one but I'm going with Son of Liberty.

I don't see this Son of Liberty track showing up on any Global Underground mixes any time soon and I like Amon Tobin so, hey, problem solved.

The Amon track was interesting, and probably gets better the more you hear it. Hopefully it wins so i can find out. It only took a few seconds to realize i didn't like Son of Liberty. Then i kept listening and it actually caught on a bit and now i don't know what to do. Doesn't really matter to me which of these advances, both were good in the end.

Reflexive vote against narcolepsy.

Both are coma-inducing but "Son of Liberty" has some bass power, and that was the mitigating factor in my vote.

Never have cared a whole lot for Amon Tobin anyhow. This didn't sway my opinion.

I'm sorry what, El Wraith doesn't have "bass power"?

I annoy myself sometimes. In this very contest last year, I heard Amon Tobin for the first time. "This is great", I thought, and put Amon Tobin's name among a list of other 'new discoveries' in a text file. The text file was forgotten. The hard drive died. Here I am a year later kicking myself for not having tracked down more of his stuff. New list, new text file, this time Amon's name at the top.

I like El Wraith for the reason Shin criticises: it's busy. I find it hard to get into some of those more spacey artists.

Son of liberty, not bad, but there's loads of identical sounding stuff out there that would do the job of this equally well.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

I don't see this Son of Liberty track showing up on any Global Underground mixes any time soon and I like Amon Tobin so, hey, problem solved.

I heard it back some 4 years ago on DI, so its not some doujin work by any means.

I'm just now working my way through the second wave of nominations, and I'm beginning to understand Shin's rage. This is some pretty not good music, alright!