Punxsutawney

This album isn't the kind of music I normally listen to, and it's a genre I'm fairly ignorant about, so take from this review what you will :-)

I didn't mind your album, but thought the songs didn't _go_ somewhere - they're like a heap of cool sounds strung together (to be fair, I think this applies to a fair bit of music in this genre, so don't take it hard). I think you've got some good ideas, and what you've done, you've done well - if you could get more plot or drama or passion into your music, I think it'd be really good. (this is a very personal thing though - I see you've tagged it "chillout", so mellow background music might be exactly what you're trying to do!)

I did notice there were a couple of bits that sounded out-of-time -- I think it was "Intermission II". This is a bit nitpicky though - it was good to listen to overall.

Also, I liked the lo-fi stuff you did (crackly bits, static, etc) - I think you used that effectively.

hope this is helpful!
-Angus

I don't think this album is great.
But I do think it has potential to become a good style of music if it is more refined, I feel it needs some elements of flux in the album overall, where the mood is changing to another to give it some excitement, at the moment it seems to be a bit la de da with each tune progressing to nothingness.

But keep working at it, I definitely found it interesting and I think your style on this album has room to grow. Keep up the inventive sounds too : ), when I hear something new, I pause and think [wow] this is new, so let's hear some more of it : )

Rarely have I found a music whose creativity is far enough out of the mainstrean, yet recognizably music never-the-less, experimental jazz, ambient, trance, electronic, triphop, funk, big band jazz, scratchy writings in intransigent notes running up and down my spine, sending messages through my central nervous system to get those bones off the chair and dance woman.

I loved the quirky idiosyncratic moments of multiple musics that compose these tracks. They cohere, feel unified through rhythms that are based in the body, its creative movement.

A theatrical quality at times, yet not the kind of dance music 'for performance' so much as music for the people's performance, for a dance crowd of creative spirits, people who write poetry with their bodies, who paint while they dance.

Who are discovering who they are as they dance. You or me. Just like the music which is so varied that from one phrase to the next you don't know where it's going though there is a central rhythm holding each piece together and a more expansive one uniting the album.

An exciting album of kinesthetic music. Kinesthia: awareness of position, weight, tension and movement. Bielebny has created a wholly social music of private creativities.

The first thing that came to my mind while listening to this brilliant album is Maynard G. Krebs! Maynard G. Krebs was a stereotypical beatnik, with a goatee who used "hip" slang in a 1960's sitcom called "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. I adore the use of vintage record album crackle - a familiar sound to me from my youth and I still have most of my old vinyl albums from that era. This album wreaks of 60s sitcom charm and really took me back to the carefree free spirit days of retro popculture. Very coffee-shop-esque! Brilliant instantaneous beatnik jazz inspired fun!

Thank you for inviting me to listen my friend!

Lots of very interesting sounds, lots of good combinations of sounds and effects.

"Nitro" was an excellent entry into the album and "I SuJAZZt you" was a very nice piece of music with a very cool Jazz layer covered with a few effects and and soothing vocal harmonies. "Degu-station" has a contempory Jazz theme running in the background with various mixes on top. Really good and well arranged music.I enjoyed the flow and change in flow in "I want my pony Back", really well done. The mixture of styles in "Virtual Dub" was very well thought out.

I enjoyed the music on the album. Most of the music was very basic and uncomplicated, but there was some very good and testing music were and when needed. The laid back Jazz style backdrop with various layers was very well done and compelling listening. The vocal harmonies were excellent and a joy to hear. Great album and I think the best part of this was the musical arrangement.

Absolutely worth a listen and download.