Untrue – Burial

An essential Electronic piece of the millennium.

A THREAD

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Burial or also known as William Emmanuel Bevan is one of the most influential producers from the last decade.

Before the mysterious musician enigmas such as Frank Ocean or Jai Paul who works in the underground to serve greatness, there was Burial under the Hyperdub label.

Marry Anne Hobbs first aired the preview off Burial's Untrue on BBC Radio on 17th October of 2007.

It's finally released on the 5th November of 2007 released under Kode9's label, Hyperdub. It is sold for 60k in the first week which was surprising for an independent label.

Untrue is somewhat Burial's style is a connecting dots of Electronic subgenres from Garage to Dubstep to Jungle and DnB.

His productions are distinctive from the skippy syncopated drum, rev. audio to the dark basslines and warm ambience that fits the loner's atmosphere on Untrue

Burial's Untrue is somewhat a personal autobiography of its creator. It's purposefully cold and thematically introspective.

What makes Burial's Untrue become special is on how much minimal resources he had yet he puts layers of intricate complex depth to the record.

Burial in the recording process of Untrue only took 2 weeks to record the whole thing inside his bedroom.

What does he use to record? Soundforge which is a rudimentary audio editing that doesn't follow the grid system instead as a waveform.

Burial one time was interviewed by Wire's Mark Fisher on how he made the album from Soundforge where Burial would usually realize that a drum pattern hits when it's shaped like a fishbone. This what makes Untrue an atmospherical euphoric distinction from other records.

Another thing that makes Burial's Untrue special and distinctive is from its use of percussion.

Burial doesn't hide the fact that he loves Videogame especially Metal Gear Solid.

On Archangel you can hear the sample being used or the fact that the snare is gun reloading sound.

Burial would also love to use Vocal samples and put an effect that will totally make it dissonant from the original with it's pitch-shifted.

He loves picking R&B where the genre would influence the 90s UK Garage where they would have fun with the vocal's tempo fit in their beat

Another thing that Burial loves to sample is from Music covers from YouTube.

One of the track, Etched Headplate has a sample taken from an Angel - Amanda Perez cover by Alicia Robinson

Burial's style is like a butterfly. The tighter you try to hold it in your hands the faster it crumbles and disintegrates. You can pull out individual elements of it but no one will ever really recreate his music because it is primarily a feeling and quite personal.

Burial's minimalistic yet complex in-depth record has influenced a generation of producers from

Mount Kimbie

James Blake (with Burial on the right side)

SBTRKT

Jamie XX

In conclusion, Burial is mysterious yet influential in the Electronic landscape.

Burial doesn't care about audio quality yet it resonates more with sincere emotion and the fact that he is able to do that with electronic and vocal samplings is amazing.

This is Burial's Untrue.

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