1-Speed Bike - Droopy Butt Begone! flac album

It's a bummer to see people not being real into this record. I love having 1-Speed Bike on the table. Sure it's no GY!BE, but it's still a good listen. Gotta accept it as the side project that it is though...

Utter fucking garbage. Aidan Girt, the drummer of the excellent Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Exhaust, created this poor excuse for a solo project called "1-Speed Bike" and churned out this shit of an album and sadly many others only on vinyl records. I hope that 1-Speed Bike is dead and gone and that Exhaust kicks its ass out of the fucking ocean with a NEW and ORIGINAL album, unlike this shit. Buy a better album with a buck or two. Seriously.

this is aidan girt's (best known as the drummer for godspeed you black emperor!) "techno" side project. it's not really techno music though. first off, the drums are obviously acoustic. there are loops and cuts going on, but the drums weren't programmed on a machine, that's for sure. second off, the keyboards and electronics are subtle - you have to really listen for them. the melodies are mostly covered by guitars and basses and these are possibly real basses. sometimes it's hard to tell. the sound is filled out by what honestly sounds like analog effects work - perhaps even reel-to-reel effects. it all sounds like it was done the old fashioned way.that being said.....this sounds like it was mostly thrown together haphazardly in a weekend full of pot and booze then forgotten about and dug up a few months later when it was promptly released as it was without any kind of second thought. the point is, it doesn't sound done. this guy really has some potential in this genre because he's an amazing drummer that's not afraid to experiment with the kit. i'd like to hear him work with an actual synthesis guy, though, as opposed to just diddling around with the equipment....however, there are a few points where it comes out sounding alright. tracks two and three jump out as being "done", although the third track is actually a fly pan am song. the fourth flows right into it to the point where it seems like it was actually written as part of the remix, while the fifth carries it right into the sixth.......in other words, this is a really long fly pan am remix/reworking......and you know a record is kind of in trouble when it's almost entirely a giant remix of another artist, even if they are drinking buddies....the final decision on this is that it has potential, but that this potential isn't realized. there are certainly very nice parts interspersed throughout the record, but there are also many long boring parts where there's nothing going on but a steady drum beat and some pointless keyboards/sequencers. it's a mildly interesting listen but is not highly recommended.aidan....find a synthesis person to work with for the next one! it's easy to make a bunch of sound nowadays but not so easy to make it interesting...

how much do you like his other releases? they are all like this and this "emptiness" makes it interesting. the good old taste discussion.

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