groove soaked ambient chill

[beige_alert]

I’ve been looking through the Magnatune catalog recently, and descriptions of music are always amusing. It’s hard to describe music, but that won’t stop me from making fun of the descriptions. In particular, Four Stones, which is described as “groove soaked ambient chill.” I think that’s a great description. I have no idea what it means, but it sounds great. I keep wondering if the “groove soaking” process is at all like the making of my favorite Spanish cheese, in which goat-milk cheese is soaked in red wine. Perhaps wine in large quantities is involved in groove soaked ambient chill.

The great thing about Magnatune is that you can listen to the whole thing for free as a 128kbps MP3 stream before deciding whether or not to buy it. I listened to a few tracks and wasn’t really into it, but maybe I just wasn’t in an ambient chill kind of mood. I was in more of a Seismic Anamoly mood.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I'd have to guess that wine in large quantities (if not something stronger) is involed in coming up with names like "groove soaked ambient chill".

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

I just think that it's fascinating to live in a time and place in which people trying to sell me something describe the product, apparently in all seriousness, as "groove soaked ambient chill." Or maybe it's a joke and they are wondering how seriously people will take the term. I think some art is really an experiment to test the limits of "if I call it art, will people believe me?"

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Many great geniuses in history were not understood by their contemporaries. Unfortunately, many people today seem a bit unclear on basic logic, such that they believe that if they can succeed in not being understood by their contemporaries, this makes them geniuses.