quoted 5 lines Could you tell me a little about Banco De Gaia? I have heard great>Could you tell me a little about Banco De Gaia? I have heard great
>things from friends and am looking into purchasing a release of their's.
>However, I am a little more interested in Trance and Acid then towards
>Mellow Ambient... if you could fill me in... currently I was looking
>towards the Desert Wind EP. Any info would be appreciated.quoted 1 line Morgan.>Morgan.
The Maya CD is excellent. I wouldn't call it ambient really. Most of
it is sort of futuristic dance music with lots of samples of
non-Western music and some excellent bass lines. Unlike some other
stuff I've heard that relies on non-Western samples BdG tends to go
for a more dense, almost funky sound. (In fact, track 2 on Maya uses a
Sly Stone sample in an otherwise arabic sounding environment to
extremely good effect) In some ways the sound reminds me of some
moments on Sven Vath's _Accident in Paradise_ except that where Sven
Vath tends towards more atmospheric or electronic sounding stuff, BdG
is generally more quick to get back into a groove. In general BdG
seems to avoid the pitfalls of using non-Western music just to add a
feeling of the exotic to their music, and seems more interested in
what the samples can add in terms of rhythms and different melodic
possibilities.
I've gone on at great length so that anyone else who reads this and
can recommend other similar work will have a fairly clear idea of what
I like about BdG.
David
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