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Happy Birthday!


As you may or may not be aware, today is What.CD’s fourth birthday! This whole week we’re remembering October 27th, 2007, when a few ex-OiNK users banded together to start what they hoped would be a replacement for that great tracker. Little did they know how much more it would become. With that in mind, we have all kinds of fun things planned, so let’s get right to it!

New Features


To start, we have a few new features, coded by moderator Changles. He put a lot of hard work into these, so be sure to thank him in the thread if you enjoy them!

First is an exciting new feature we’re calling freeleech tokens! These tokens allow you to make any torrents up to 1GB in size freeleech for you for 48 hours. As long as you have tokens, you will see a FL button on eligible torrents, next to the usual DL link. Every user has been given fifty tokens to use in the next seven days. That’s up to 50GB of free downloading for all leeching-enabled users! As always, we hope that users will use this feature in good faith and continue to seed anything they download. Have fun, and remember to use all your tokens before the week is up!
Second, we are pleased to announce that starting today, Elites+ and donors can make multiple personal collages! Elites and donating Power Users can have up to two collages, Torrent Masters can have up to three, Power TMs up to four and Elite TM+ up to five. Donors always receive one more than the class maximum. As personal collages, these can be used for whatever genre, theme, or functional purpose one wants. Qualifying users can go to collages.php right now and hit [New collage].
On the collage theme, Power Users+ and donors can now also subscribe to collages to receive updates on new additions. To subscribe to any collage, look for the [Subscribe] link. Then, when new torrents are added by other users, you will receive a notification similar to torrent notifications, so you can stay on top of all your favorite collages.
Fourth, we have a very useful new tool we’re calling inactivity notifications. Users who opt in to this feature will receive a system PM on Sunday if any of their uploads are going to be deleted for inactivity in the eight days following that Sunday. If more than one of their uploads are facing deletion that week, all of them will be listed in the single PM. The inactivity deletion rules can be found here. We hope this helps you keep your uploads alive on the site!
The Do Not Upload list on the upload page is hidden by default for Elite+ users! It's still important to check for new entries from time to time though. Be responsible!
Finally, forum regulars will notice a new link at the top of every thread called [Search this Thread]. Users can either search the entire content of a thread for text, or quickly find all posts in a thread by a particular user.



irredentia's Stats Project


Those features aren’t all though. Resident data guru irredentia has been working to compile lots of interesting statistics about the site for its fourth birthday. Over the next week he will be releasing all of them, starting with a countdown of What.CD’s Top 250 Artists by download. There’s more to come, so be sure to thank irredentia for completing this mammoth task for the benefit of the users!

Staff Picks


Finally, as is of course traditional for special events, we have a round of staff picks! All picks are freeleech (no tokens necessary) except Ananke’s, which is neutral leech due to its size. Be sure to comment on the albums you enjoy in this thread

Marienbad’s Pick

Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex

Genre: Experimental electronic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=107383

Review - Over the years, Ryoji Ikeda has built his reputation as the musician willing to explore the highest and lowest audible frequencies. The sounds on this album, especially through good headphones, often have as much of a visceral effect as musical. Though he started as a purely experimental artist, over the years he has developed a fascination with replicating modern dance music in his unique sonic palette. That's exactly what this record is, and though at first the music might seem completely alien, one soon realizes that the music has a strong, almost danceable rhythm. Despite the music's complexity and extreme frequencies, Ikeda's musical aptitude and attention to detail always shine through. Dataplex is my favorite Ryoji Ikeda album to date.

jowa’s Pick

Surkin - USA

Genre: Electronic, house

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72068209

clapton’s Pick

Fushitsusha – The wound that was given birth to must be bigger than the wound that gave birth

Genre: Experimental Rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72015811

bionicsocks’s Pick

Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Horsie

Genre: Electronic, Dub

Torrents: torrents.php?id=7620

Review - iTunes wrote:

Twilight Circus Sound System is the project of Ryan Moore, applying cut-up electronic beats and elements of pop and jazz to conventional electronic dub formats. Horsie develops this sound a bit more coherently than some of Moore's previous releases (it's arguably his best since Other Worlds of Dub, and possibly better), and despite a few banal moments, much of the album grooves along nicely, with some of its beat-heavy moments finding a lovely midpoint between electronica and dub. This makes the album (and much of Moore's other work) a nice alternative to some of electronica's more played-out forms.



Changles’s Pick

Arnold Schoenberg with Arditti String Quartet & Dawn Upshaw - Streichquartette I-IV

Genre: Classical, Chamber music, 20th Century

Torrents: torrents.php?id=661128

Epiphron’s Pick

Ayuo - Izutsu

Genre: Japanese folk, folk "opera"

Torrents: torrents.php?id=443042

Review - John Zorn's Tzadik record label just about defines hit-and-miss, releasing numerous "avant-garde" releases that are much more noodly than they are avant-anything. Ayuo is the exception, with three stellar releases in Tzadik's New Japan series. Izutsu is the best of the three. The first 20 minutes are taken up by three introductory tracks that create a meditative mood and set the stage for the album's centerpiece, the 12-part, 42-minute title piece. Based off of the beyond gorgeous Noh drama of the same name (which may be the most beautiful work of art I've ever encountered), Izutsu lives up to the play that inspired it. Each of its twelve parts is a haunting miniature exploring some theme—together, it creates a hypnotically compelling whole.

DixieFlatline’s Pick

Bohren & der Club of Gore – Black Earth

Genre: Ambient, Jazz, Doom Jazz, Noir Jazz

Torrents: torrents.php?id=21255

Review

Ponderous and crawling, barefacedly dark, Black Earth is Bohren & der Club of Gore’s magnum opus. Less accessible than Sunset Mission, Black Earth is the nihilistic evolution of its predecessor: Sunset’s sound rubbed with ash and buried. If Sunset Mission is the ultimate film noir score for an unfinished story, Black Earth is the backdrop to whatever semblance of life remains after the bodies chill, the betrayals fade and the credits scroll. The track titles offer a fair representation of what the listener should expect—“Midnight Black Earth”, “Destroying Angels”, “Grave Wisdom”, “Constant Fear”, “Skeletal Remains”, “The Art of Coffins”. This darkness is the culmination of a very calculated plan. Gass explains:

“It took us one year to record the album—such a long time because we did everything by ourselves. Production, engineering and all of the studio equipment were in our hands. But, on the technical side, it was the playing that took the most out of us. It was very hard to play precisely in such a slow and quiet way. Most of the time was spent getting the right sound out of the double bass. Black Earth is a doom record in most respects. We deal with themes like murder, horror and the end of the world. We are very happy with the whole album, because we had all the time in the world to come up with such a record. It is 100% the music that we had in mind.”



Marigolds’s Pick

Telstar Ponies - In the Space of a Few Minutes

Genre: Post Rock, Shoegaze, Experimental

Torrents: torrents.php?id=556708

Review - Picked on behalf of a friend. Debut album from cult scottish rockers.

WithTiredEyes’s Pick

This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain

Genre: Post Rock, Instrumental, Experimental Rock, Ambient

Torrents: torrents.php?id=8001

Review - Pitchfork wrote:

In 2005, as a part of Temporary Residence's Travels in Constants series, Explosions in the Sky released The Rescue, an eight-song "mini LP" (their words) that condensed the band's normally epic sound into smaller, bite-sized nuggets. Several months later, Mogwai released Mr. Beast, their fifth album, and surprised fans when no song crossed the six-minute mark. This, from a genre where anything under eight minutes feels short. These albums show that tension can exist within the confines of each riff and melody, not just the song as a whole. Continuing this trend, San Marcos, Texas natives This Will Destroy You's debut LP Young Mountain proves that when the mood is there, it doesn't need 15 minutes per song to develop.



WhiteLight’s Pick

Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity

Genre: Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, Art Rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=29750

allmusic's Ned Raggett 4.5/5 review wrote:

The opening track "Better Than You" almost says it all: Starting with the wail of an infant, then suddenly crashing into surging music that mixes quick, energetic drums with bells and other instruments, the song turns into a dramatic acoustic guitar/percussion piece with Gira's brooding voice and Jarboe's haunting backing; after some re-developments of the themes, it ends with a beautiful restatement of the sung section with additional guitar and bell sounds. At once incredibly destructive and astoundingly life-affirming -- and worth the entire Burning World album several times over -- "Better Than You" demonstrates that Swans had emerged from their major-label fiasco even more powerful and artistic than before, aiming for an awesome, all-encompassing majesty in their music that the admittedly hypnotic earlier versions of the band, in their brute forcefulness, simply could not have achieved. Simply put, this is out and out brilliant as the clear starting point for the second half of Swans' unique career.



sickofjesus’s Pick

Owsley - Owsley

Genre: Alternative, Rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=160219

Review - Owsley is about as ideal as pop solo debuts get; like Jason Falkner Presents Author Unknown and the first Folds album, it introduces expert tunesmithing and by an unassuming musical personality. Smart, tasty, and guilt-free. Full review here

Illuminatus’s Pick

Slaughterhouse - Slaughterhouse

Genre: hip.hop

Torrents: torrents.php?id=551168

bashmore’s Pick

Dusty Kid - Beyond That Hill

Genre: Techno

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72071236

Review - Paolo Lodde first made his mark on club music as part of Duoteque, his project with fellow Sardinian Andrea Ferlin. Working on his own as Dusty Kid, he developed a hard-hitting brand of minimal and tech house, exemplified by records like 2008's The Twister or his ode to Richie Hawtin, "I ? Richie." Since then his sound has evolved into something more epic and melodic, and it's this style that dominates Beyond That Hill. The album consists of eight tracks mixed together to form a kind of journey, some of which stretch well beyond ten minutes. It comes two years after Dusty Kid's first full-length, A Raver's Diary. Like the majority of his releases, it will come out on Cologne's Boxer Recordings.

Ananke’s Pick

Pink Floyd - Discovery

Genre: Progressive rock, psychedelic rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72055392

Review -

For the third time in almost twenty years, the Pink Floyd catalog receives the reissue treatment as part of EMI’s extensive campaign that includes a new greatest hits package and expansive, multi-disc collections of the English psych pioneers’ three most well-known albums— Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. But unlike its predecessors, 1992’s Shine On and 2007’s Oh By The Way, the 16-disc Discovery box set, containing every Floyd LP from 1967’s acid pop masterpiece Piper At The Gates of Dawn to 1994’s middling, borderline MOR swan song The Division Bell, finds these treasured records remastered with a punch and clarity its predecessors never possessed, thanks the meticulous work of longtime group collaborators James Guthrie and Andy Jackson.



lenrek’s Pick

Tech N9ne - All 6's And 7's

Genre: Hip Hop

Torrents: torrents.php?id=71983889

Review - In the early 2000s, it seemed like the cut "Tormented" would forever be Tech N9ne’s theme song, but enthusiasm, determination, and a whole lot of success had made the once simply “sick” rapper sound strangely positive and hopeful since about 2009. It just means that in 2011, the rapper considers being sincere more important than being sinister for sinister's sake, so take every crossover play on All 6's and 7's for what they are: the gifted and dark Tech N9ne testing his skills against the unknown. Granted, he’s worked with big names before, but the guest list here is especially ambitious, running from Lil Wayne -- who joins Tech and T-Pain on the cartoonish sleaze number “F**k Food” -- to Snoop Dogg, along with E-40 and Krizz Kaliko on the suitably titled “Pornographic.” Somewhere in the middle there’s B.o.B. sounding rather Juggaloo on the grand graveyard dance “Am I a Psycho,” plus a truly global cast on “Worldwide Choppers” which features Turkish rapper Ceza next to domestic favorites like Twista and Busta Rhymes. Gimmicks abound on this dark carnival of an album, and if you can’t hang with some murder talk and misogyny, it’s best to stay away, but this fat, epic effort is still a swift thrill ride and doesn’t bore despite its size. While a couple of hatchet-carrying fans from the old days might be shaken off by the man’s willingness to sound radio-worthy, the album Tech introduced as his “biggest” and “craziest” is also his best to date.

SisterRay’s Pick

Sandy Bull – Inventions

Genre: blues, classical, folk, jazz, world

Torrents: torrents.php?id=75727

Review:
Simply put, one of the most talented musicians ever, but, unfortunately, he wasted much of his talents.
AMG wrote:

On his second and best album, Bull added more instruments and a bit of electricity. The centerpiece of the record is "Blend II." Like "Blend" from his first album, it is a melange (somewhat more electric in tone) of folk, jazz, and the Middle East, this time 24 minutes' worth. Also included on this 54-minute LP are two versions (electric and acoustic) of a Bach passage, a composition from the 14th century (Guillaume de Machaut's "Triple Ballade"), and Luiz Bonfa's "Manha de Carnival." A heavily reverbed (with drums), extended version of Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee" closes the set with an unexpected blast of rock & roll.



Maverick’s Pick

Alice Deejay - Who Needs Guitars Anyway?

Genre: Electronic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=47172

Review - Alice Deejay finds its inspiration at the nexus where house music meets Eurovision songwriting. The creative force behind Alice Deejay, and the voice fronting it, is a Dutch club DJ identified only as Judy. She's enlisted two other singers (Gaby and Jane) and a host of European house-music producers from the more pop end of the spectrum--people whose credits include remixing Ricky Martin's World Cup theme song and the Vengaboys. The result is a mixture of melodies that are heavily Europop with maybe a dash of contemporary U.S. Britney-'n'-Backstreet Top 40 over a beat that started with Giorgio Moroder in the late '70s, took a trip through the British Hi-NRG style in the '80s, and hasn't yet quit. The handiest comparison to someone who has combined a similar set of elements in an obviously successful way is to Cher and her hit "Believe," but the proof that crafting melodies that catchy is not easy is also on display. --Bob Bannister

Tolstoy’s Pick

Jonathon Neme - Two Sides One Story

Genre: Indie

Torrents: torrents.php?id=706158

Kopitiam’s Pick

Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas

Genre: Halloween

Torrents: torrents.php?id=142271

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