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PostSubject: The Habit of Fire, CD of The Month review (Sound on Sound)   Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:14 pm

The Habit of Fire got the CD of The Month review on Sound on Sound Mag November 2007 edition (respectable audio production magazine from UK)..

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov07/articles/playback_1107.htm

CD Of The Month: Kekal The Habit Of Fire

The Habit Of Fire is apparently the sixth album from Indonesian beat combo Kekal, and features such popular favourites as "Worldhate Chronicle", "The Gathering Of Ants" and "Our Urban Industry Runs Monotonously". The band describe it as "an experimental yet accessible 70-minute epic concept album of urban avant garde metal", which is pretty much on the money.

So too is the production and engineering, which marries contemporary (and presumably triggered) blast-beat drums with keyboards, vocoders, and a bewildering range of sounds. Respect is due to the mix engineer who made it all fit in two speakers! There's a breathless, almost ADD feel to proceedings as the band barrel from one idea to the next, borrowing influences from anything and everything. At the same time, though, their tightness and discipline as a unit is impressive, and you can tell that they've been playing together for a long time. The adjective "progressive" has been over-used in music, but Kekal have more right to it than most. - Sam Inglis
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PostSubject: Re: The Habit of Fire, CD of The Month review (Sound on Sound)   Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:41 am

Good review... agreed with it completely.
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PostSubject: Re: The Habit of Fire, CD of The Month review (Sound on Sound)   Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:58 pm

good review
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PostSubject: Re: The Habit of Fire, CD of The Month review (Sound on Sound)   Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:17 pm

The cool thing from that "CD of The Month" is that they gave a prize to it, a Line6 portable audio converter, that I am using it now to record the rest of the new material in my laptop.. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov07/articles/playback_1107.htm#9

I don't have any access to a recording studio at this moment, so I am using that 'indirect endorsement' to record the rest of the songs using only a laptop computer (thanks to Nick from Line6 UK & Sam from Sound on Sound).. It works great..
All the drum tracks have been previously recorded (or sampled -depends on what your stance in this 'hybrid drumming' controversy) at the real studio last year.. More details about the 'hybrid drumming' method can be read here: http://opengraverecords.forummotion.com/kekal-f6/photos-from-the-drum-rec-session-hybrid-drums-t201.htm
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