I don't think I've been advertising Schlock! enough

[Ari Rahikkala]

Or, at least it seems that when I do advertise it, people never listen to me. Therefore, once more, I'll link to this album:http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-deta ... chlock1Yes, the name of the artist is Michael Jackson. I usually don't have problems with people or things changing their names, but in this case I do. In this case I think people will be generally less confused and more happy if I just call this guy Schlock!.Yes, many the names of the songs are long, masturbatorily artistic and generally not promising. Don't mistake the names for the music.Yes, there are no reviews. That's something I can change myself, though... you can actually expect to see a rather positive review there sooner or later.Yes, the selection of categories is rather weird, and makes you think that the artist himself doesn't really want you to listen to this.Yes, the very first song ("The Living Song") is just a bunch of random notes played on something that sounds vaguely like a piano.You just need to look and listen beyond all that, and you'll discover... well, no, it's not musical perfection. It's a hell of a lot better than anything before the third song of the album would make you think. It's definitely nothing like the compilations of uninspired (read: crappy) "experiments" (read: Lots of bad samples thrown together) that you get from 2063music, or the "we're amateurs except for the loving-what-you-do thing" waste from Please Do Something (though Wedding Rings And Bullets In The Same Golden Shrine is actually pretty nice, I listen to it often - it's another exception like Schlock!).Schlock! somehow manages to never hurt your ears with even the most dissonancies (unlike, say, KurtZ)... even when he throws things like the strangeness of the beginning of Come What May at you. The samples that he uses tend to be of the rather simple sort, but he makes very nice soundscapes out of them anyway. The "shoddiness" is rather refreshing - the noises, the sawtooth waves (that's what I think some of the... things you hear here are), and in general all of the weirdness really... sounds... good.Just go listen to it. I'm getting tired of writing this already . Jag har glömt hur pjäserna stod!