T.I.M.E Soundtrack

Odd Nosdam | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Anticon
• ASIN: B001LRL51Y
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,638 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Created for the Element Skateboards film This Is My Element, the T.I.M.E. Soundtrack is the first of its kind: an original, artist-composed score crafted to the beat of polyurethane pounding pavement. Anticon veteran producer and beatsmith Odd Nosdam tailors each song to fit the style and cadence of the Element rider it accompanies. And on its own, quite simply, this album is a banger. From its opening moments, the T.I.M.E. Soundtrack menaces thump-driven destruction. T.I.M.E. sports an ominous SP1200-crunched beat that stomps into the fore like Godzilla into Nagasaki, while Nosdam's trademark pops and quirks flit overhead. The Chad Muska-inspired Trunk Bom aggressively boom-baps its way to rhythmic bliss via chopped breaks and arpeggiated synth, while Fly Mode (co-produced by Jel and fashioned after the fluid stylings of Brent Atchley) is a loping, folksy instrumental that blows through like a summer breeze. Throughout the T.I.M.E. Soundtrack, Nosdam's approach--decidedly upbeat, mobile, and spontaneous--cements the guitar-driven rollick of We Bad Apples to the funky minimalism of Zone Coaste; to the sweet toughness of Ethereal Slap. Elsewhere Nosdam proves his hand at big and grimey (Cop Crush for Bam Margera), melodic and gorgeous (Root Bark for Mike Barker, also co-produced by Jel), and heaving and stoney (One For Dallas for Levi Brown). Top Rank leaks in like steam over lo-bit guitars and a warm dubby bounce designed for child prodigy Nyjah Huston, then morphs into a slow-pulsing, textured epic just as apt for rolling--by board or by car--through any concrete jungle. But the second-to-last track Wig Smasher conceived for Tony Tave, sends the T.I.M.E. Soundtrack soaring to the stratosphere. The slow burn of steady organ builds and builds from a bedrock of record static, ambient fuzz, skittering drums and 808 bass, culminating in a five-alarm blaze of beat-driven sound collage. It's an anthemic near-end to a larger-than-life song cycle.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Odd Nosdam in a skateboard video? It works., February 23, 2009

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Thaddeus Burns - See all my reviews

This review is from: T.I.M.E Soundtrack (Audio CD)

This soundtrack brings a much more tasteful flavor to This Is My Element than the usual ska/rock soundtracks you hear associated with "extreme" sports, reminding us that for those who skate daily, it is just a part of their lives. Nosdam's tunes are warm, fuzzy, and easygoing, with a slight sense of repetition, and slow beats that maintain the idea of one in their element, perfectly at ease.

Standout tracks for me are 'Fly Mode', 'Top Rank', 'Ethereal Slap', 'One for Dallas' and 'T.I.M.E. Out'. Given that I've chosen roughly half the tracks as 'standout', you can see this is a very listenable album overall. I personally can't get enough of Nosdam's sound. His signature growly bass is so intoxicating!

Money well spent, in my opinon. The film 'This Is My Element' is also quite interesting. Check it out.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keep those crutches ready., February 17, 2009

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David M. Madden "nonnon/dj_webern" (salt lake, utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: T.I.M.E Soundtrack (Audio CD)

The coupling of fast, screaming guitars and skate/snowboard/ski videos is a puzzling marriage. Thankfully, Element Skateboards agrees and hired a more suitable artist, David Madson aka Odd Nosdam, to take on the challenge of crafting the soundtrack for "polyurethane pounding pavement". Madson's signature work, full of bit-reduced thumps, backwards scratches, minimal melodies and gravelly textures, already lends itself to slow motion, smoked-out apparitions - so why not? Each track is assigned a different skater (i.e. Bam Margera, Mike Barker, Levi Brown), Madson's machines chugging behind rail slides, gnarly missteps and otherwise outrageous tricks with bastard dub ("Time Machine"), Middle-Eastern inspired drones ("Top Rank"), gritty slide guitar and near-rock stomps (""We Bad Apples"), chalky flutes ("Root Loop") and synthetic, slash and burn string swells ("Fly Mode"). A stellar mix of interesting sounds, hooks and finger-tapping beats, Madson's music might actually get you on your own decrepit half-pipe. Keep those crutches ready.

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete Banking, May 7, 2009

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Quest (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: T.I.M.E Soundtrack (Audio CD)

One for Dallas. For all u side stepping guys and gals out there. Never thought i'd use that description for an Odd release.
This release is funny. It was created probably during the same period as Level Live Wires. But this one (after a few listens) is way more sparse. The samples are oblique and dusty. The beats are fierce. At 33 minutes, its a little on the short side, but Odd puts a lot of energy in a little bit of tape. Was this recorded to tape Odd Nos? Maybe do it on the computer? at any rate: I loved this record. It's pabst blue ribbon.