{"id":2412,"date":"2011-03-03T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2014-01-28T01:07:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:07:36","slug":"dan-of-earth-i-can-still-see-the-x-3-cd-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Dan of Earth – …I Can Still See The X 3"CDr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDan of Earth<\/a> – …I Can Still See The X 3″ CDR<\/p>\n

Colbeck Labs<\/a><\/p>\n

The name Dan of Earth is kind of an ironic name for this artist, because \u2026I Can Still See The X is pretty otherworldly. Taking a\u00a0 heavily ambient route, this short (it clocks in at just over twenty minutes) but absorbing album sounds like a transmission from some point far into the future. Utilizing avant garde tendencies and a general, Kafkaesque weirdness, \u2026I Can Still See The X is a solid release from this obscure act.<\/p>\n

New Smooth Jazz<\/em> probably utilizes the avant garde aspect the most on this album. With bursts of free jazz saxophone, the environment created here is a weird, alienating one for sure. The radio broadcast at the end mentioning Kenny G just punctuates how weird this track is. Erdos Number<\/em> plays like radio chatter or ambient noise from a cyberpunk cityscape. From there on, the album takes on a very ambient\/drone feel and stays there. There really aren\u2019t any crescendos or climaxes present here, but Dan of Earth was obviously focusing on creating a feel of place here, and he succeeds.<\/p>\n

This album probably isn\u2019t the most original thing I\u2019ve ever heard, but the esoteric, obscure sound it takes on is something I appreciate greatly. There\u2019s a very stream of consciousness feel going on here below the surface, and while some people might feel that \u2026I Can Still See The X is a bit too short, I feel like any more on this album would be overdoing it. The sound gets a little redundant by the end, but for the most part, Dan of Earth has created a pleasurably weird album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Composition:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sounds:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Production Quality:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Concept:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Packaging:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Overall Rating:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan of Earth – …I Can Still See The X 3″ CDR
\nColbeck Labs
\nThe name Dan of Earth is kind of an ironic name for this artist, because \u2026I Can Still See The X is pretty otherworldly. Taking a\u00a0 heavily ambient route, this short (it clocks in at just over twenty minutes) but absorbing album sounds like a transmission from some point far into the future. Utilizing avant garde tendencies and a general, Kafkaesque weirdness, \u2026I Can Still See The X is a solid release from this obscure act.
\nNew Smooth Jazz …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-webzine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}