Give You Time (ft. Ashley Webber)
Babe Rainbow
Babe Rainbow - Give You Time (feat. Ashley Webber)
Produced for Adult Swim & Scion A/V’s [Unclassified] compilation.
September 2011
15 posts
S.A.D. Mix For Autumn by Babe Rainbow
S.A.D Mix For Autumn by Babe Rainbow
Like Autumn, this mix is mostly bleak with a few moments of hope.
Scott Walker - Farmer In The City
This Heat - Diet Of Worms
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Song of Joy
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - Lupus
John Maus - Forever And Ever And Ever
Oneohtrix Point Never - Describing Bodies
Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn’s Done Come
Van Dyke Parks - Public Domain
Lucio Battisti - I Giardini di Marzo
Velvet Underground - Jesus (Closet Mix)
Serge Gainsbourg - Ah! Melody
Robert Wyatt - Sea Song
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Cameron Reed (aka. Babe Rainbow), is one of the most active musicians in the music scene in Vancouver. He is involved with many different projects and works with many people to bring to life amazing local festivals to Vancouver. I have special respect for the man for such dedication.
The new album is interesting. Every song is in itself a different genre. He tries to get away from the concept of sticking to a certain theme in the whole album. The only thing is that the theme is Endlessness. I love how the traditional concept of rhythm in this album is questioned from time to time. And the type of space the music produces. In Chains for instance, you may get a sense that the song is in 4/4, but the song tricks you. It plays with your perception. The spacing in the song is also quiet impressive, the pan of a ‘wow pedal esqu sound’ that starts from your right side and goes to the left while the voice is affirmatively in the center produces a great sense of space.
Bounty, written in 3/4, with drumming that have lots of echo and reverb effect, is another great song in the album. The melody is very simple. The play is on space creation and rhythm. I highly recommend this song to be listened on either really good speakers or a flat headphone. As I said, the rhythm is in 3/4 (the rhythm of the heartbeat). Trust me, it feels like your heart is beating when you listen to it. The high-pitched dissonant notes that are constantly playing in the background produce a space of horror/unknown to the ear. Definitely something to tune the ears to. Again, the space is definitely a jepy element of the album and it runs with the theme of endlessness regardless of the shift in the mood and sometime genre of the musicin the album.
Most of the songs in the album don’t have a definitive ending, which also conforms to the endlessness theme, the major theme of the album. Overall, I really like the album and think Cameron did a fantastic job.
Can’t wait to see him playing the music live on Saturday, September 17th at the Astoria
This is a very nice review of my new record.
All Is Ephemeral
Babe Rainbow - All Is Ephemeral
Let Me Buy U, Anne Drank Vol. 4
Let Me Buy U, Anne Drank Vol. 4
DaVinci - Smoke The Night Away feat. Rae Rosero
UptownXO - Seems Like feat. Ab the Pro & Mustafa
Main Attrakionz - Perfect Skies
SpaceGhostPurrp - Way Back feat. Speak!
Danny Brown - Nosebleeds
August 2011
13 posts
“Vancouver underground electro/dubstep poster boy Cameron Reed’s latest offering as Babe Rainbow takes a dreamier, more ambient turn here than on last year’s Shaved EP, but his new stuff will still send some creeping shivers running up your spine. Reed is at his most slasher film/psycho thriller-textured on opener It’s All Happening, at his most tongue-in-cheek on the bumpy Set Loose (where one would swear the vocal loop keeps repeating, “That’s bull——”) and at his most Jean Michel Jarre-esque on the swirling, oozing Bounty and on the glitchy, ethereal closer Chains. Add a hint of hypnotic hip-hop with G-Side’s Yung Clova on Greed, and Endless Path becomes a musical exercise that, while not entirely redefining the dubstep genre, makes for a ghostly cinematic addition to the canon.”
—The Vancouver Sun: Babe Rainbow ‘Endless Path EP’ - 3.5 Stars
