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So, who is Burial, really? (38 posts)
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i would indeed like to know
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My money would go for displaced, pot smoking, semi-long haired, skinny and 20 year old chap from back streets of London.
At least that applies to majority of dubstep producers ;D
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@jazzgangster: haha, you're probably right… But it sounds pretty well thought-through though..
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I like his sound too... Im still trying to figure out who John Gault is?
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Initially the buzz was he was called William Bevan (this came about after some digging on the MCPS website, if you are registered on MCPS you can check this yourself).
All the dubstep fanboys were cock-a-hoop over the William Bevan MCPS find (as if he'd be that thick to register his publishing in his real name)
However (hilariously) then it became clear if you googled William Bevan, the top hit was that of a funeral director, so obviously a clever trick from whoever Burial is.
A few vox samples on Untrue are actually Beyonce - Resentment, and my mate Andy (Sei A) reckons he's sourced a lot of them off punters singing Beyonce tracks acapella on Youtube. A few of the links are very convincing, i'll dig them out.
If he has used stuff off Youtube from random punters, a few of them would have a very good claim to some healthy royalties, would be interesting to see that played out.
I did ask him on myspaz if he sampled off youtube but he blanked me! Also tried leaving a comment about it but he didn't let it through for some reason.... -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Gj0c2TO5U
2 mins in is the sample for Archangel
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ha, that's so very cool! it really is that sample, i listened carefully. sampling from youtube is the new vinyl.
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what about redshape? who he..
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"I like it that way. I've had times when I've had mates sitting next to me and they've put my tunes on without knowing. I would just sit there whispering to myself, 'Please don't put that on - or at least, don't say anything bad about it," he says, with a nervous laugh. "I've had someone say to me, 'Yeah, Burial's a girl. I know someone who met her.'
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really nice interview. burial is truly good.
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Liked the interview.
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I love the concept of Burial. Although it's not very clear in the interview if the interviewer actually saw Burial himself. Though it doesn't really matter actually, since his music would lose a lot of interesting elements if his identification will be known. He uses the same concept as Gorillaz, they hide behind a story, an imaginary band. And in the end it's your fantasy that turns into the expierence of music.
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batman is burial.
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burial is moby
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haha
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i bought both burial albums together and popped the records in one after the other on the rather lengthy (made more lengthy ultimately by my purposeful detours) ride home from the record shop. it was perfect. driving through broken down and economically deserted shops with the shimmer of traffic lights at around 11 at night whilst fog and rain rolled in. i was floored. probably, no definitely, the best way to have one's first impression of the music. whoever the man is, big ups.
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redshape = Sebastian Kramer
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No! I'm Spartacus!
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Who is Banksy?
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My name is Burial........James Burial
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He shoulden't have given that interview make it even more imaginable Like Drexciya's James Stinson RIP gave one interview in 20 odd years.. great .Or Mad Mike for that matter ,anybody ever seen his face properly : ) or Scan 7, DJ Stingray. You know in this age of STARDOM.. i think its cool when people let the MUSIC speak and nothing else. Its jus't energy picked up out of the cosmos and we had some part in this process nothing more
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It's not just 'the music' though, there's a mystique about him which works as good as any image.
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Burial is Photek
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@The Observer
I'd kind of had similar thoughts about the Underground Resistance folks and Burial, but it seems like they do it for very different reasons. And to kind of recapitulate what Smear is saying as well, it's definitely worked in Burial's favour, contrived or not.
Mad Mike actually has given at least one interview as far as I know. There is video of it on YouTube. His face is obscured. It's from a french documentary called Universal Techno. It's pretty decent, and the clip starts with Autechre, and they make some interesting comments on Detroit Techno and the difficulty of loving that music but coming from outside of that scene-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYD_7etGCrQ
I'm still kind of chewing on that last comment Mad Mike makes about musicians coming to Detroit and taking something away without giving something back.
Maybe records should be pressed with some sort of advisory about Fair trade.