Dhal - Algebra
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Song: Algebra
From album: Cacophony
Genre: Darktronica
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Hey, I need your help with testing this new streaming mp3 player I made. It seems to work fine for me, but we all know that’s never the end of it. If you would be so kind as to try it out and let me know if everything works for you: fast forward, rewind, volume, pause/play, and the draggable playhead, (which should appear when the song is fully loaded) I would appreciate it greatly! If something doesn’t work or doesn’t work correctly, please leave a comment about it!
This is Dhal, the current band of Downy’s Aoki Robin. I’m not sure why it has taken me so long to post a song of theirs, but I’m using it to christen the new streaming player. I used this song to test during the course of creating, coding, and debugging the mp3 player; so I have listened to different bits of it probably thousands of times in the past 24 hours. So the fact that I’m not sick of it by now is saying something indeed.
I’ve become a bit desensitized to it by now, but It still feels like the song is being played, or listened to, in a vacuum. Probably the vacuum of space. It’s the kind of dark where you see blackness everywhere, except for the light of interplanetary eclipses and their reflections.
A little while ago Mictian mentioned a Dhal Fansite which has some more information on the band.
July 21st, 2006 at 9:42 pm
It all works great for me, nice work.
I’d actually been wondering before why you hadn’t mentioned Dhal (remembering the Downy post from way back when). I love Aoki’s voice - when I listen to Downy or any of the bands he’s been in, I always tend to think of his voice less as a person singing/vocals and more just as another instrument, another beautiful sound that makes them flow so well. It just melds so well.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:39 pm
I agree about the voice thing. When I first intruduced one person to downy, they got really psyched at first, and then when his voice came in said, “aww man, why does there have to be singing to ruin the beautiful soundscape…” and I thought that was one of the most ridiculous remarks I had ever heard about music.
The voice is really the contour of the soundscape. To me, it often seems like a guide exploring twists and turns, and illuminating the core of the songs.
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