LOCRIAN Mixtape (ft. Samurai Guitarist, Ben Levin, Paul Davids and Nahre Sol)

[@aidaniel8763]

i didn't realize how much i need locrian surf rock until right now

[@prgnify]

It fit sooo well

[@mihneazote8283]

Exactly, it sound like something off the soundtrack of God Hand, old ps2 game. I could see it so well

[@sharpphilip]

@@mihneazote8283 EXACTLY "Naughty naughty!"

[@WillayG]

@@mihneazote8283 Right? Or a Tarantino movie

[@PoopVintner]

Tell me about it

[@martinpaddle]

the number of songs that employ locrian just increased fivefold

[@_carrotfx]

Zero times five is still zero though

[@RafaelSolaPACalsaverini]

There was that one Bjork song.

[@TheTourtopoulais]

I mean locrian is all over metal but I see what you meant :p

[@RafaelSolaPACalsaverini]

@@TheTourtopoulais I'm not sure. I see a lot of b5 and b2 on metal. But rarely a b3 or b6. Is it really Locrian, Locrian?

[@RafaelSolaPACalsaverini]

@@TheTourtopoulais I don't know a single example of metal tune in Locrian. Even those highly dissonant Slayer riffs are more Phrygian with an eventual b5 than Locrian.

[@pedromrls6]

Ben Levin for the next Doom game

[@jakecharles8742]

MUSSST BEEEEE

[@reflect7559]

Seriously. It's hellish

[@remnantgaming716]

I get more Cyberpunk vibes than DOOM, so respectfully I disagree. Loved Ben’s track though!

[@lulairenoroub3869]

Sounded like Trent Resnor to me, and he did the sound track to the original Quake. Nicely full circle :)

[@sheep3479]

More along the lines of devil may cry I thought but dooms a shout too

[@Thehillsfamily2009]

Nahre Sol's song sounds 100% like some secret JRPG soundtrack that we've just been blessed with.

[@mechuniversal]

The Nahre Sol is my favorite of the group

[@digitaljanus]

Like you've just entered the Mystical Garden area of a quirky Metroidvania game.

[@bejited6932]

reminded me of the undertale soundtrack a little bit

[@Chris-vc3mb]

Parts of it have Hallow Knight Vibes

[@celineleuwen2237]

Timestamps 0:00 - Samurai Guitarist 0:59 - Ben Levin 2:35 - Paul Davids 4:05 - Nahre Sol 5:32 - Adam Neely

[@sierra3644]

thank you, kind soul

[@sierra3644]

not all heroes wear capes

[@sierra3644]

im just commenting a lot so this gets seen by more ppl :^D

[@kaylons]

Yes

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

Bump

[@Tree-Salmon]

Nahre's piece makes me think of a kitten playing in a witch's home when they're out of the house. An eerie place with a cute focus

[@guiAstorDunc]

Every single Nahre Sol commenter has a perfect scene for all of her music lol

[@mathmelody3213]

So, "A Whisker Away"?

[@philip.stigaard]

Well that’s funny because thought of a kitten flying through the dreamy sky singing the melody in her piece

[@Si-Al-Ti]

Strong Ryuichi Sakamoto vibes if you’re looking for more like that (unless you already knew :))

[@anobletone]

Perfect soundtrack for grave digging

[@Anonymous-re9fd]

This comment inspired me to search grave digging jobs near me lmao

[@fedsavi]

@@Anthony-Viincent Lol

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

Digging graves is my delight

[@zkeepah]

Is this a reference to John Kirkpatrick's version of Dust to Dust?

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

@@zkeepah i hope so, otherwise my reply is just really weird and off putting

[@AlexTuble]

Props to the vocalist on Paul David’s tune for singing in Locrian

[@aarnimustakallio7769]

No, Paul just has a very pretty voice. lul

[@tissuepaper9962]

The power of practicing audiation.

[@Anukaonline]

Thanks!

[@feosTAS]

@@Anukaonline great job indeed, super atmospheric! can you post the lyrics please? I could only hear "ain't it funny" and something about "locrian trap" :D oh and also "can't wrap my head around this"

[@AlanMonasch]

So very locreative!

[@AlanMonasch]

More seriously, Adam, I watched (and adored) the Nebula video yesterday, yet I’m so glad to have this music-only compilation, which I will listen to repeatedly! (Does it help you that I generally watch your videos on Nebula and also “like” them on KZbin? Would I need to watch them all the way through on YT as well?)

[@LuizFelipeFonsecaArt]

Ben, please make an entire album that sounds like this (0:59) Update: I asked Ben in a twitch stream and he said he's putting together a full album expanding some musical ideas from bits and pieces he produced on streams and videos and this one might make it in.

[@xBUMSKIx]

Bro. Wtf that’s the best song I’ve heard all year.

[@AfonsodelCB]

@Eras To Eons so true

[@hititwithit]

I wholeheartedly second this. I love the heavy industrial / dark electro sound. It reminds me of Nine Inch Nails with some Combichrist or Suicide Commando.

[@nahblue]

No

[@AfonsodelCB]

thanks for the update

[@leodu561]

I just love the minimalistic / Steve Reich-esque touch in Nahre's short composition.

[@cykwan8534]

Couldn't hear Reich during first listen, but I can certainly catch the Reichian garb now! The low, rhythmic piano chords and the mixed time signatures reminds me of Reich's Quartet.

[@dbq-117]

I think its by far the best one out of these, and im not a full piano guy

[@melvingroenewold6630]

Why is no one talking about Paul's piece like goddamn 😍

[@xen0vantage542]

He needs to release the whole song it slaps hard af

[@Leo-pw3kf]

I didn't like it that much (in the context of the challenge) because it doesn't sound Locrian at all. It just sounds like it's in B major but accentuating the third.

[@GreggOliverBass]

Man... just man.... That was all so good. Paul and Sami G, though.... and Nahre. and of course Ben and Adam. Can't wrap my head around it...

[@pickledparsleyparty]

All amazing, but Ben's and Paul's destroyed me. That playful/menacing vocal melody over Paul's, and the pulsing, grinding dissonance of Ben's made feel things.

[@gargus6287]

and lamp... I love lamp

[@theartsyfarmer3748]

I need an hour long version of Nahre Sol’s piece *now*

[@gromov-]

I loved Ben Levin's Prodigy/Marilyn Manson homage, I kept expecting after the floaty part to drop into a MASSIVE mega distorted guitar riff, I need more!

[@matiasbosques3002]

Yes.

[@Chestnut-xm2pv]

Yes.

[@jeccdog7584]

Seriously not fair now I need full albums from all of them

[@michaelmiddleton551]

Locrian surfrock lives in my head rent free

[@marloc2019]

When there are five smartest kids in the class and start arguing who's more smartest

[@tacticalguy6473]

Sammy g: sound track of cutting people down with a katana Ben: alien metal Paul: pop music of the future Sol: nier automata alternative ost Adam: J A Z Z

[@jacobdejongh9042]

Ben and Pauls were so fucking good ughh

[@ChiefFalque]

I want paul's full version!

[@stanprogressstanyang]

nahre's piece is so cool! reminds me of john adams or something. i'm not qualified to say how well she followed the rules of sticking to the locrian, but this has definitely left me wanting to check out her other work now!

[@pickledparsleyparty]

Man, Ben's song makes SUCH a good first impression. Like a doorway swings open and a menacing silhouette is standing there with its fists clenched. Nahre's makes me think of a day long after the world ends. Natural light has a sickly green hue and the water in rivers and streams looks heavier than it should. Nobody alive was born before the apocalypse, so we're witnessing mostly content people going about their everyday lives.

[@karleick6679]

Can't stop listening to Paul's piece! 3:25 so pretty!

[@voichi7128]

real

[@NormalLunk]

Paul's is amazing. Got me singing in locrian because I can't get it out of my head.

[@zoosmell_egbert]

When I first heard Paul's I didn't really like it but shortly after it and after relistening to it I like it a lot more

[@jeccdog7584]

it's like Dutch Travis scott in Locrian

[@Bladavia]

I love it, it has an Arabic vibe for some reason, probably because the melody is sung and the b2 reminds me of Phrygian.

[@v.0]

Dude Paul's was my favourite one by far haha. Wish he released a whole album around the concept.

[@crafalgar9719]

The two last ones don't really scream locrian although they are my favourites. However I think Ben's arrangement fullfills the goal of making locrian listenable while not sounding like anything other than locrian. I guess textures and timbres can do marvels and change one's vision of other elements in music.

[@HGWeegee]

Adam did say himself he struggled with not making his piece sound like the relative major, but the lack of the b5 makes it hard to not hear it as the relative major

[@spatrk6634]

man i come back to this only to listen this insane future stuff that Paul did

[@v.0]

My first encounter with locrian was... well, the band, Locrian. Their album, The Crystal World, to be exact. Coming at it from that perspective, I was blown away by all the unique approaches and excellence delivered by every single musician. Thank you all.

[@taras518]

Each guy made a really great job 👍 But Ben Levin... It was so powerful and weird in a good sense. This expression. I love his work the best.

[@itzolie]

Honestly, I just can’t get over how all these songs wanted to come to rest the whole way through, but then never did. It’s like anticipation with no payoff. Just part of the locrian scale I guess.

[@mi5ter664]

Would love this on Spotify!!!

[@leonardoross8133]

I need more locrian trap in my life

[@RisikoAO]

Nahre Sol is sooooooooo good

[@ChromVsChrom]

Nahre’s piece reminds of every jrpg I can think of (:

[@MichaelMcNay]

Ben Levin? More like Bevin E. Levin Seriously his music is awesome

[@ashtarbalynestjar8000]

Ben “Seven Sharpie” Levin

[@kingdomking224]

Ben10

[@monowavy]

my god Nahre...

[@mathmelody3213]

I know right?! I get a Studio Ghibli/CoWave Mix Studio/"A Whisker Away" vibes from her piece!

[@darltrash]

i seriously need to get the chords for that piece

[@caseymclane1972]

I think I'll just repeat my comment from the original video haha 1: Ben's piece KICKS ASS, and the vibe reminds me of Periphery's "Crush" A LOT 2: Nahre's piece is AWESOME! So delicate and thoughtful, and the vibe really reminds me of Steven Wilson's "Routine"

[@clomino3]

I thought the same thing about hearing that Periphery song in Ben's piece!

[@richardhanula4702]

I NEED THE FULL PAUL DAVIDS VERSION PLEASE

[@richardhanula4702]

I WILL PAY WITH KIDNEY

[@voichi7128]

+

[@TiredLowBrass8048]

Locrian gives me this giddy delight of seeing a completely worthless scale being used so well. I've always had a soft spot for things that aren't the best.

[@TiredLowBrass8048]

heh, guess past me was right. Named myself after it.

[@nikosucksatskating]

Can't be worthless if all of these were composed from it, this thought process is why nearly nobody uses it, it's such a beautiful mode but everybody is afraid of it

[@reynandr.w.279]

I'm absolutely mesmerized by Nahre's piece

[@Bladavia]

Paul's was the most Locrian out of them, really great job

[@TeagueChrystie]

I would watch an infinite amount of these.

[@nicosan3301]

locrian surf rock sounds like a Mr. Bungle (California era) song, just before some bizarre unexpected change

[@rassault]

its literally just Juicebox by the strokes

[@miserirken]

@@rassault Thanks, i knew i can't be the only who thought that.

[@thehalfspace27]

it sounds like smuggler's corridor to me.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Now I want to hear some early-twentieth-century radio advertising jingles in the locrian mode. Or a locrian parade march.

[@lucascastro4165]

Damn, Sammi G, Paul and Nahre really blew my mind. Ben and Adam are awesome as usual too. Thanks for the great content Adam

[@shawnbay2211]

Locrian can be so cute! Samurai, Nahre, and Adam’s sound like perfect background music in an adventure game.

[@ANT-ER]

I wish these were on spotify!!

[@capitalistraven]

Ben's sounds like The Residents doing Industrial.

[@brdrnda3805]

Full versions of all five songs, please... Please! PLEASE!!!!

[@westarrr]

Paul and Adam made me fall in love with Locrian, but it's a very guilty pleasure kind of love.

[@mirrormundo]

You can't leave us with just 6 minutes and 40 seconds... More of this please !!! Locrian, lydian, mixolydian, whatever...

[@alejandrobauer7234]

I’m amazed! Love Locrian from now on thanks to you

[@wordsofcheresie936]

The locrian surf rock is genuinely enjoyable.

[@lapislazers2373]

you just did the unthinkable

[@wendi-bnkywuv]

You guys (and girls) made me fall even deeper in love with this mode than I already was prior to watching! Loving the head banging screamo too. Fits locrian so well. I also enjoy how the singer in Paul Davids song actually USES the flat fifth whereas most singers will sing a raised fifth, AKA phrygian. I like locrian because it sounds *just* minor enough to get a point across, bit not overbearingly sad like aolian or phrygian, or even ionian! I am highly sensitive to the third degree of ionian so that nasty phrygian degree creeps me out. But here it's like I expect it to resolve to a depressing minor or that uncomfortably sad happy chord of the ionian scale but...nope! It's just neither.

[@ShayLaLaLooHoo]

I love these challenges! I wish I could find a playlist of all the Phrygian songs.

[@mrclean1234]

I need these on Spotify now

[@anxietyprimev6983]

0:00 Surf rock but you're trying to escape from Cthulhu.

[@kjaamor2057]

All brilliant. My personal favourite is Nahre Sol's.

[@bajunkie7714]

Loved all but Sammy G, that was sweeet!!

[@sonosphere3671]

The first seconds of the first song sound exactly like a crash bandicoot level soundtrack :D

[@chiara9721]

samurai guitarist smashing his fingers on the keyboard...my entire mood for 2020

[@BigBadWolframio]

I liked them all so much!

[@DojoOfCool]

Cool use of Locrian and great arranging and videos.

[@dbq-117]

Hey adam is there somewhere i can listen to them separately (like on spotify or even here on youtube)?

[@analytical768]

I would recommend just screen recording the part you like do you can just watch it in your camera roll

[@dbq-117]

@@analytical768 i guess lol

[@analytical768]

@@dbq-117 honestly Idk just spitballing here

[@coragon42]

Nahre Sol has hers on her channel. Don't know about the others.

[@dbq-117]

@@coragon42 wish it was on Spotify tho thats my favorite one

[@forthecup]

The surf rock one sounds like the Addams Family doing a beach episode.

[@marconocella9544]

Really loved Paul's lead tone, reminds me al lot of the one used in Omnadawn by Mike Oldfield

[@funkymonk3672]

I absolutely love this

[@caltimuslk1887]

THE SWING PERCENTAGE ON THE LAST TRACK 🔥🔥🔥

[@pluspiping]

I love all of these. I also wish this album was 60 minutes and not 6 minutes, but I understand these were intended to be more proof-of-concept... but still... wish we had more of these amazing jams.

[@noslowerdna]

these are all so great

[@yikeyikeyike]

the transition in the ben levin one is unbelievable

[@Tohkaku]

4:05 sounds like something from Ori And The Blind Forest, I really dig.

[@MrTheSmoon]

the transition into and out of bens song are giving me whiplash

[@armanfidanoglu2839]

PLEASE release these on Spotify!

[@kimandaya9252]

YESSSS THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR

[@zuhairnwelati1636]

Why are these guys so talented like holy shit?!?!

[@natalievelasquez2664]

Man so top notch, this made my afternoon 🤘

[@aidilmubarock5394]

I need more!!!!!!!?

[@LeMongole23]

For anyone who enjoyed the surf rock and want more, try Daikaiju

[@eduardventura8133]

Nahare's gave me some Zelda BOTW vibes it was pretty nice

[@byzaantine]

Really liked the pop-country, Adam!

[@tjbakugo9624]

Lmao

[@jaketozer2056]

Please Please Please Please Please put these songs on spotify plz

[@J_Lusional]

Thanks so much for this. y'all are amazing.

[@borisv1283]

I'd kill for seperate downloadable versions of each track

[@someonesaccountforwritingn9894]

the ben levin music video was fucking unreal. ive never seen a music video look exactly how the music sounds

[@areamusicale]

5:11 very Genesis interlude style

[@Deu_terio]

Agreed. I can totally hear The Lamia in there

[@WilliamLimao]

Good call

[@miedzystrunami]

Have you guys considered making an xmas/winter songs album in a manner similar to this or to Tuplets for Toddlers? With each of you interpreting one song on your own, and then with some kind of collab for one other song? And maybe even sell it for charity, apart from uploading it on streaming services? I think it would be a hit.

[@kontrastwesen4066]

Nahre Sol sounds like a new type of Ryūichi Sakamoto composition

[@hamiltonmays4256]

Listening to this made me want to smoke marijuana, so I did and then listened to it again. And again. And again... :)

[@owenhooper4573]

freakin Nahre Sol man...

[@straightXjessedge]

The video portion of Ben Levin's song looks like a Code Orange music video.

[@timnewsham1]

that levin piece is amazing.

[@voichi7128]

cant wrap my head around this… 2:36

[@TheFlyingFerret]

What Noble Bautista said.

[@GemmatheCat]

Gaaaah - so good

[@mikaylaholt4772]

Fuck 1:59 scratched a part of my brain I didn’t know was there 💀 there are no words to describe how that felt

[@SupeHero00]

Can you post those as singles

[@aquaticats7118]

I need this on spotofy