Burial

[Lx_Nen]

I'll stick my hand in the air and say 'mea culpa' for a lot of this flamewar. My post was intended to be taken far less seriously than it has been. I threw a simley and a joke about mmm Skyscraper in there, and used a silly name, but it seems people didn't get the joke.

I wanted to have a stab at getting the Burial sound, and I thought my results were interesting enough to share, that's all.

My point was that anyone could make the same sort of soundscapes as Burial, not that anyone could be as good as Burial. I'll say for the 3rd time that I do like the first Burial album, and I do 'get it'... but I'd be very interested to know if people who don't 'get it' rate my quick pastiche highly or not.

The blackdownsoundboy article inspired me to give the Burial sound a go, as the techniques described in it are undoubtedly very simple. I used Reason not Soundforge for my first go, so I've not got the offbeat timings, which may be why mine sounds (no pun intended) dead compared to the real thing.

The next stage for me is to make another one of these tracks, but with the handmade timings explained in the article and some suitable 2step/uk garage samples (not genres I'm very familiar with, so please bare with me while I find some), and see how much of the magic is Burial, and how much is Burial's samples. I'm still linterested in finding out the answer to the question I posed earlier - is Burial good because he's in a field of his own, or is he good despite being in a field of his own?