I was reading a book the other night in my room, and as is my habit, enqueued a couple of albums on Winamp. The volume was moderate, the book was funny enough to get me laughing loudly at times (note to self: more Tom Sharpe. ), and there was a ready supply of fruit juice and Haldiram™ Bhujiya near the couch to get me going for quite sometime. <\/p>\n
Except I kept getting a quivery feeling of dread every now and then.<\/p>\n
It was the music. The band in question was Coil, a group I had heard being mentioned reverentially in lots of places. Curiousity made me seek out a couple of their albums. Creepy, to say the least. Layers and layers of atmospheric voices and sounds, distorted, breathy, disjointed at times – all of which makes for tracks that mess with your head if you aren’t paying too much attention. I just had<\/i> to keep Wilt aside, and listen to Coil with reverential attention for the rest of the album. I like it when a band does that.<\/p>\n
Did some reading up on Coil’s music and there is this impressive list of techniques used by them: (All information from the Wikipedia article on Coil<\/a>) <\/p>\n As well as such exotic instruments as:<\/p>\n <\/i> I was reading a book the other night in my room, and as is my habit, enqueued a couple of albums on Winamp. The volume was moderate, the book was funny enough to get me laughing loudly at times (note to self: more Tom Sharpe. ), and there was a ready supply of fruit juice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nListening to an album called “Hanzo Steel”, a collection of remixes of the songs from Kill Bill – as expected, ranges from outrageously cheesy to catchy. “My Baby Shot Me Down” is largely unchanged for the first bit, and then there is a beat that could have been much better with a bit of thinking. What’s nice is the snippets of dialogue from various martial arts movies – I could idenfity Sonny Chiba from “The Bodyguard”. “Six million ways to die, choose one.”, – sounds freaky. “Battles Without Honour or Humanity” is completely screwed with vocals, while the theme from Twisted Nerve, juxtaposed with “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” ( the song that plays when the bride fights with O-Ren Ishii ) sounds extremely<\/i> cool. The Ironside theme is masticated beyond belief, but manages to stay in “catchy” territory. The best bits are the dialogue snippets that are scattered throughout the album. Nothing I would spend money on, but good to listen to on a lazy afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"