Can someone explain what HDBC002 means?

there are many similarities in their aesthetics and im a fan of both for similar reasons

I just can't believe there's a non stop 90 mins of unreleased burial out there and people have heard it

Just saw an ad on insta for it but won't allow me share videos on here. Has a techno background but couldn't be burial

What would you suggest is the best way to listen? I live in the UK and it’s cold as hell should I stare longingly out the window? Smoke? Lay in darkness?

You should go see Bird, it's different https://voca.ro/14qm2NduSCCN

Just left an opening day viewing for Bird by Andrea Arnold, scored by Burial. First off the movie is sick, and I definitely recommend it. The story felt very honest, intimate and human, some shots were beautiful and the pacing felt very natural and at times meditative. As someone who comes from poverty it’s always cathartic to see certain parts of it portrayed in an authentic way as to not sensationalize things and I felt the score really accentuated this. Burial did what he fucking does best man I don’t even know what to say. I almost wish I watched this not knowing who burial was because I felt myself geeking out everytime I heard vinyl crackle start to play. There’s a lot of new songs in here, in a lot of new styles. I’m talkin 90s hip hop and even some form of haunting trap remixes. He was really creative with so many different sounds, motifs and of course samples. I’ve never heard samples contextualized in a movie this way and it really changed how I see scoring. On a general note man the songs were fucking sick, I really hope he releases them because I would just listen to them in isolation. In terms of a score it was really interesting to see his music contextualized in such a raw and grounded context. Most people who I grew up around or most people from the hood (especially in America) don’t know who the fuck burial is or listen to any music like that. It’s really interesting to see his signature style placed within these very real and grounded places of youth in broken London homes rather than a fog covered industrial landscape. This coupled with an editing style that at times felt non linear added to this meditative and psychedelic mood that at times felt very cathartic for me. I really did love the score, although at times it felt like there should have been more silence. Also as a burial fan it really did feel like I was listening to a burial track sometimes, rather than watching a movie with a score. But really sick to hear no less. I really hope to see more scores by him in the future, and I really hope yall catch the movie and let me know what you think.

Hard to explain, but the feelings I get while playing the game are exactly the same as when I listen to Burial

my school wanted us to make a drawing that represented us, and I thought “what could be better than Untrue?”

also, it’s on a plate because we’re hanging them on the walls.

I have to admit, it’s been easy to get deep into all his more recent, more ‘colourful’ music.

But I recently started to get back into Untrue. It’s quite something, and almost mind blowing when I think how truly unique it was at the time of realise. ❤️

Call this an Untrue appreciation thread!

This theory is most likely wrong however I think it has at least some merit, I think that some of his post Untrue EP's were supposed to be full length albums that he condensed into EP's

Street Halo I think was quite obviusly always an EP, it still had his typical song structuring and they all flow pretty well into each other track by track

Kindred is a very different beast though and Burial was clearly trying to experiment with his structuring and the type of music he was making, the title track has sections that seem very different from each other but they flow really well, Loner seems like the most Street Halo like in structure until the very end, with this Ambiant like outro, the track that really made me think of this initially was Ashtray Wasp, it feels to me less like a full song and more like an electronic symphony with what feels like 5 or so separate songs put into one, like a dj set put into a song

The release that really convinced me of this was Truant, its basically the structure of Ashtray Wasp buy way darker in tone, especially Rough Sleeper, with the abrupt switch ups, they feel like snippets put into two songs, even more so than Ashtray Wasp

Rival Dealer feels like the most focused in my opinion, with the format of an EP in mind, Rival Dealer has a lot of switch ups but they're less abrupt in my view, the closest it gets to that sort of symphony style is Come Down To Us, with multiple genres in the same song across 14 minutes

Street Lands and Antidawn (which is straight up album length) uses this same messy style across all his tracks

The final straw that made me take this theory more seriously is the method that Burial said himself he uses to make tracks, he apperently would make really long songs with very different sections and then Kode9 would listen to them and pick which sections he liked, and Burial would turn them into full songs, and these EP's, specifically the songs Ashtray Wasp, Truant, Rough Sleeper, and Come Down To Us, really really feel like this is what he did, except instead of turning specific sections into full tracks he just kept them as they were, whether he actually did intend to turn these into full albums but changed his mind or if he always had the intent of making these EP's just with this structure nobody except Burial Kode9 and maybe some Hyperdub employees really knows but I think it's an OK theory

my vinyl arrived today :) such an amazing piece of music.

a lil gift for y’all…

1st come, 1st serve

🫡

Since the nights are dark now, I spent the last 5 listening to Burial’s entire discography in chronological order. As far as I’m aware I’ve got everything that’s out there, collated over the last 17 years. It spans 98 tracks and is just shy of 11 hours (excluding the 2 LPs). AMA!

So my repress just came through the post and it has this hand written pencil symbols bottom right corner. I have few hundred records, but never seen anything like that. It is kinda cryptic...

Hope you enjoy too...while we wait for new material from the man himself...

https://open.spotify.com/album/2gmMSI1TOWQG88WOeXpZHN?si=-YylPjDnRE6Qgqf_8ewxmA

Made a reddit solely to interact with this group. Burial on repeat for the next few weeks for sure.

From an old internet forum for the release of Kindred

where's the vocal from at 3:10 onwards

Enjoy

You can take three Burial songs with you, which three are you keeping?

Songs, not releases.

One with the most upvotes wins.

EDIT - OK so a few days in, if my maths is correct, our desert island discs would be:

Ashtray Wasp = 6 votes Come Down to Us = 6 votes Rough Sleeper = 4 votes

Arg'h bye

Top 10 burial moments is that angelic synth line

Been wondering tv