Emancipator - 03 First Snow

[DeadCandyLizard]

The sudden ending is a statement. The rest of the song is about the beauty of life, the feeling that things will be fine because though everything dies everything lives. The homeless man is not fine. He's separate from the rest; he makes us reconsider everything that came before.

[HarrisBoi90]

I consider myself lucky coming across this guy... Simply amazing music

[Rossthecraft]

I disagree with joelface but it's all good. to each his own. I love how he closes with that sample. very soulful kind of feel.

[TEamDEmoCLan]

Sadistik <3

[lightlyone]

This recording of the song does end improperly I think... on others it ends much sooner, at about 5:13 or so... this has almost 30 seconds of silence.

[vicerexcising54]

i heard this from ashes to ashley from sadistik and mac lethal, i loved the beat so much so i just had to find it.

[shauno5166]

playing this with the snowflake thing =D

[Kotakai]

@nickstephenson797 massive attack, dj shadow, dj krush, air, alphawezen, orb, enigma, delirium, and ratatat. Ratatat is more electronic/rock though it works well still all the other bands are relatively within the trip hop category. Listen to black milk by massive attack it's pretty good

[nickstephenson797]

can anyone recommend any similar songs?

[zzabuza1]

@nickstephenson797 Really, I recommend anything by Emancipator. Some of my favourites (apart from this) are Safe in the Steep Cliffs, Anthem, Good Knight, and Jet Stream...and the rest of his songs :). Check out the artist Nujabes, also, very similar styles.

[z2oxid]

tack has perfect vocal :)

[MrWawachi]

Great music ! 

[ArtDyoz]

my favourite song... my favourite song ever... forever.

[iilozi]

3:01 is where I'm freaking out of my panties & 4:14 is where they're across the room.

THIS SONG IS GOD DAMN AMAZING <3

[shad455]

bout 3 socks

[AllenBuckman]

man this song is so good

[wied81]

Check out the remix by Ooah of The Glitch Mob for this song if you like this version.

[scooterguyzMJG]

Great song!

[DevoniusTrud]

The end part makes sense if you think about it

[playtheshovels]

This is the only song from the Remixes album that actually turns out more organic than the original. That reverb bit around 2:02 is so sweet.

[somebodyhelpme]

so amazing. and beautiful

[kfittycent]

3:02 is heaven

[andrewuhoh]

hey! i used the beginning of this song for my campus movie fest film!

[syddnorml]

MAKING LOVE MUSIC

[99F]

does anybody else really appreciate how the song kicks in at 1:00 but finds the rest of the track to be unfulfilling?

[ThaMisfitKid]

@99F mainly because emancipator used this track in a collaborative CD he made with Sadistik. Try looking up "Ashes to Ashley" by Sadistik featuring Mac Lethal. Their parts in the song fill some of those "unfulfilled" parts you are referring to :)

[lemire182]

@99F I don't know man, 3:00 is pretty bonerrific.

[skateboardBulgaria]

What kinda genre is that ?

[3003ian]

That guitar melody near the end is more infectious then the common cold...it'll leave anyone listening with chills...that will be frozen in my memory forever...maybe that is why it's called first snow?

[ozfactor]

i'm so used 2 hearing Mac Lethal & Sadistik puncuate this track with lyrics that i can hear them in my head... but still its rad 2 hear it in its original form :)

[joelface]

Agh.. just wish this song ENDED better.. it was going into such a cool place and then it starts cutting out.. I dislike that artistic choice.. up till there, i was SO into it..

someone should fix the ending, in my opinion. SO much potential.

[DocHallux]

@joelface You know, I never really observed that, but you're right. If he did a more gradual musical fade type-of-thing, it might have a better conclusion.

[joelface]

@DocHallux - at least as a stand alone song, I truly believe it could be improved by fixing the ending. I actually feel like the song could probably go one for another minute or two with just the parts of the song already introduced, so the ending feels very rushed as well, not just choppy. Almost like Emancipator just ran out of time or out of motivation to keep going. It's too bad because its by far my favourite emancipator song.. I've been listening to it for about a year and a half, nonstop.

[Oflores707]

@joelface if you listen to "Soon it will be cold enough to build fires" first

it starts like its cutting out and ends that way

its so amazing in unison

[okEric89]

@joelface Good point, but at least it's a nice long song and not a short 2 minuter.

[Spikewhooo]

@joelface I've always felt that as the best part of the song. I leaves you with a euphoric feel. Well to me at least. I couldn't really explain it :( ahah

[goozdail]

@joelface I completely agree with you, the simple but oh so awesome beat that starts at 3:01 is just perfect, it should have been exploited more by our good friend emancipator in my opinion, especially with the great guitar line that starts at 4:33. But oh well. It's strange, i've listened to this song countless times, and I finally think that it also makes sense to end it that way. But it definitely could have been better with 3 minutes of this awesome beat ;)

[joelface]

@goozdail - 3:01... I agree.. perfection... and I also agree that the line at 4:33 is amazing... right up until 4:53 I'm SOOOOOOO loving it.. and I want it to keep going.. and then the cutting out words at the end just come out of nowhere and ... steal it away.

I'm glad to hear you agree with me.. I'm not the only one who would have loved to hear more of that.

[markrossi06]

@joelface OOAH's remix i think satisfies that. scope it

[KaossMarines]

@joelface I personally like the ending... guess it's just a matter of opinion though

[misformada]

@KaossMarines you mean the silence between 5:12 and 6:51?

[KaossMarines]

@misformada YES.

[Novaequalsftw]

@joelface if you look up the lyrics, the ending makes so much sense. the whole thing is actually put together really well

[Porojukaha]

@joelface someone DID fix it check it

watch?v=0rAfUUg1_gQ&feature=re­lated

[joelface]

@Porojukaha - yeah.. that's a bit better.. but still.. completely abrupt ending. I wish that part of the song would carry on another 20-30 seconds and then maybe fade out or at least have a distinct ending point.

I don't like the ending of this version, but on the version you linked me to it sounds like someone just suddenly turned it off in the middle of the song. Not really "fixed" in my opinion.

Do you know what I mean? I guess without a professional DJ it's near impossible to do, though.

[Hedgehog3342]

@joelface i agree the ending definitely should have been a fading at the end cause it had potential for that.

[Nicki820]

@joelface theres many other songs to make up for it, onto the next record...

[xiaoina]

@joelface personally think whoever, I can only assume a black dude in a cold near ocean location, was the perfect ending to the song

[stefheid]

saw emancipator last night, was incredible. let the beat sync with the beating of yer own heart. there's nothing to understand.

[VexingSoul]

its not bad but i dont get it. what exactly do people like about this? i dont mean to be rude, im honestly just curious.

[REKON592]

@VexingSoul we just can FEEL it

[VexingSoul]

@REKON592 i get it now! i just had to have an entmoot...

[jalle71002]

@VexingSoul

Cant really expain what makes it enjoyable.. It's very smooth and relaxing electronic instrumential music, with a magnificient beat. I'd take a guess, and say that instrumential music is not something you listen to, correct? :)

[shad455]

@VexingSoul well, it tells its own story different for each person who listens to it. like for me, im sure it says things that it doesnt say for other people. but, at the same time, there could be this possible link or connection with what we all feel from it. it sounds like it makes sense, in a way? do you understand what i mean? like this tune was excavated from the chords of nature.

[ravergurl420]

its sick that emancipator has no thumbs down

[MrKwobble]

three socks, hat

[MrCrookiemonster92]

truley keeping the underground legit

[Pale091]

0 Dislikes :D

[supergirlmiyea]

yay! this music made my brain feel funny, I like that

[AbTwizzle]

I've just started making my own music.. and now I know how good this actually is!

[ravergurl420]

@AbTwizzle yeah for real i make music too its only til then you learn to really appreciate the music other artist create

[supergirlmiyea]

yay!

[SrValdemaar]

this one always gives me goose bumps... brilliant music!

[bluenudibranch]

The beginning makes me think of hypnagogia, the hallucinations some people (including myself) experience as they fall asleep. It's relaxing and eerie at the same time...

[Killer00433]

@bluenudibranch Oh is that what that's called? I thought I was just weird XD

[bluenudibranch]

@Killer00433

Yup! :P

[Killer00433]

@bluenudibranch Yeah I have that all the time >.> Especially when I'm about to fall asleep in class. Don't know why, I'm just weird :P

[Samarahuel]

This makes me reminisce of times when I was a child; when in Winter I would gaze through the windows upon so many flakes slowly falling to the ground. Then to go out into it, and enjoy every flake falling on my face. That is the beauty I see in this song.

Inside, I will always be that child.

[Cha0sMaster]

The first snow of winter this year just fell this morning in my city and this is the first track I played :)))

[Madara1012]

1:28 "well like this" than ear orgasm thank you

[Madara1012]

@Madara1012  :59* sry

[furyo01]

Wow !!! Thanks !!!

[DelightOxygen]

so hot ;)

[DelightOxygen]

so hot

[Niggolaus13]

0 fucking dislikes!

this is how great Emancipator is!

[Summoner455]

@Niggolaus13 haha... good observation. literally never seen that till now

[foxinsocks506]

What's with the extra minute of silence at the end? Would be perfect if it weren't for that...

[fedinhorax]

when listening to this is smell the winter

[furiousphoenix77]

What beautiful tunes...

[zomgitsMattt]

I love it..

reminds me a lot of Pink Floyd... and m83...

have these comparisons been made before..?

[terraneaux]

This song is amazing. Reminds me of my childhood with my father.

[HalfGreyHalfMan]

Smart skipping the video, most all of them suck these days anyhow.

[mooniusss]

Nice name

really jives with the song and dirty snow

Clear white skies

[vGoLiaTHH]

its cold... real cold...

i love it.

[heygi]

most underrated band ever still luv them

[LCtwenty3]

"Band" is in every sense the wrong word.

[mlw1488]

yup lol

[cristopheroukrap]

its the best song from emancipator ...

[HarvesterofSorrow94]

i love it, but "anthem" is better.

[LIVEETERNALLOVE]

@cristopheroukrap agreed

[AtmonautiBand]

can't stop listening to this one.  thanks a ton!

[lootpacker]

epic stuff, very chill. I love it!