First post on here, been lurking for a couple of years. Surprised that no one made a thread on this artist.
A lot of things have been said about Volor Flex, the young Russian producer whose music feels and acts like both a tribute and, at times, a cover of this mysterious iconic musician called Burial whom you might've heard of on previous occasions.
Some people think "this sounds too much like the original, we don't need copycats" while others went as far as calling it "Burial v2".
To each his own - the music is shamless, catchy and most importantly, freely available. Have a go at it, leave all bias aside and take it in for how it sounds rather than what it stands for, you'll probably find yourself enjoying it.
You can get it here, for free (name your price): http://store.darkclover.ro/album/tramp. Personally, I think that this is amazing. I hope that this guy gets the proper recognition from the scene and that this won't end up as an underrated album just because some people will say that it's a ripoff. It clearely has a massive Burial influence ("trademark" samples) and it certainly comes the closest to him, but in the same time it has a personal touch and it's not like everyone can make a similar Burial tune.
I'm loving the dark atmosphere in this one, those snares and the massive sub-bass.
okay I'm giving this a listen right now, this actually does sound really fucking good. I'm only at the 2nd track right now, but I'm loving it.
I do think he sampled some sounds straight off of Burial tunes tho ? there's some sound at the beginning of ''Unfeeling'', and I'm quite sure he got that from beginning of the radio rip of Burial's Speedball 2.
I once sampled a Burial loop too, and I regret that to the fullest
let me start by saying that I really like this album. I listened to it on the bus to school last week and I thought it was great.
However, I think that comparing him to Burial might not be very wise. I mean, while I was listening to the album I just couldn't help myself but to compare it to Burial everytime, and it's just simply not as good.
I generally think that a comparison with Burial is made too soon and usually doesn't do the release any good, cos I think any Burial fan will prefer Burial's work over anything.
But yeah, the album is great though. I enjoyed it.
Not being funny but how is emulating another producers sound, bringing anything new to the table? I'm not knocking the guys production, after listening to them clips, he obviously knows what he's doing but he could of took inspiration from Burial and developed his own style as a lot of others have gone on to do. Even if he just knocked a few of the Burial elements on the head, it would still be decent music. My opinion. At least he ain't straight sampling Burial drums to make Burial-esque tunes like that other clown from a few years ago.
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listening to the album now, i like it a lot, but there are some tracks where i feel like they are thrown over a template of particular burial tunes. for example
tramp sounds like prayer
backward sounds like fostercare
goonstock wrote:listening to the album now, i like it a lot, but there are some tracks where i feel like they are thrown over a template of particular burial tunes. for example tramp sounds like prayer
backward sounds like fostercare
Had this exact discussion with my mate that showed me the album. "Gloom" is a mash up of "Pirates" and "Wounder"
Looking past this though, it is a great album, the guy describes himself as a tribute. Yeah, he's really gone to the lengths on Burial's style, but doesn't stop me enjoying listening to it.
Don't get why people think Synkro sounds like Burial?
Looking past the fact that it sounds similar to Burial, it's great music, so very nice and deep. Repetitive sometimes, but some of the tunes are really jaw dropping to me, especially You In Me.
I'm listening to that right now. I'm really liking it. Pretty excited to hear these new artists coming out with "that Burial sound", but with their own flavours.
goonstock wrote:listening to the album now, i like it a lot, but there are some tracks where i feel like they are thrown over a template of particular burial tunes. for example tramp sounds like prayer
backward sounds like fostercare
Had this exact discussion with my mate that showed me the album. "Gloom" is a mash up of "Pirates" and "Wounder"
Looking past this though, it is a great album, the guy describes himself as a tribute. Yeah, he's really gone to the lengths on Burial's style, but doesn't stop me enjoying listening to it.
Don't get why people think Synkro sounds like Burial?
@OP Thank you for sharing. Currently halfway through the album, wonderful stuff regardless of the obvious parallels to Burial. It's certainly an intermediary for Burial's 3rd LP.
Sageon wrote:@OP Thank you for sharing. Currently halfway through the album, wonderful stuff regardless of the obvious parallels to Burial. It's certainly an intermediary for Burial's 3rd LP.
Wonder if this is still true... and even if a 3rd Burial album did get released, doubt it's going to be garage...
Sageon wrote:@OP Thank you for sharing. Currently halfway through the album, wonderful stuff regardless of the obvious parallels to Burial. It's certainly an intermediary for Burial's 3rd LP.
Wonder if this is still true... and even if a 3rd Burial album did get released, doubt it's going to be garage...
If burial did release another album it would almost certainly be house. Unfortunately.
few nice bits. Elegiac is pretty sick. otherwise its just a ridiculously shameless load of copycat Burial tunes that's hard to listen to past just hearing them as exactly that. fair enough the odd Burial-esque tune but i dont understand why anyone would want to dedicate themselves to essentially completely copying someone else's sound. where's the fun and self-expression in that? i mean this guy obviously has talent and knows what hes doing when it comes to production - just a shame he chooses to use it to completely copy someone else. there's inspiration and then there's just plain imitation
