Herman Dune
“I Wish That I Could See You Soon” (mp3)
from “I Wish That I Could See You Soon”
(Everloving)
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This is just a cute track. Cueing the background singers: “The angels, go!”
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Black Moth Super Rainbow
“Boatfriend” (mp3)
from “The Autumn Kaleidoscope Got Changed”
(Rad Cult)
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A melodic trance-like track from this wikkked Pennsylvania band. Download the free track
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Howard Shore‘s own hand scribbled these notes that we’ve been hearing every Saturday nite since the 70′s.
Apparently this song has never been recorded but played every Saturday. Some of the best NY studio musicians have played it at studio 8H at Rockefeller.
I can’t really find it anywhere except on this youtube splice >> (Lenny Pickett on sax — tell me that sound is not ingrained in your head from numerous opening and closing credits)
time for a waltz…
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Giggle Party’s “Jason Bought A Hatchet” from Jason Reichl on Vimeo.
This is a really great tune and a great animation! I love the list of things to chop up.
Except of course eclairs. The band’s name, Giggle Party, kind of explains it all.
Maybe I’m desensitized but I love animated violence.
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
Birds were found that looked like notes so they played it!
I was thinking about an engineering white paper that I would write on attraction. There is definitely something about magnetically attracting things that have the same vibration that you are projecting. It’s most plainly obvious when you think about they way you’re drawn to beats and melodies that resonate the right way with you. For example, given a field of speakers all broadcasting different musical genres, I personally would gravitate toward rock played from the soul over say… psytrance or fashion groove. That’s just me.
But that goes to a further point of the idea of harmonics. A musician’s hand on a guitar or piano that knows what combination of notes create a chord knows the concept of harmonics. A live DJ (as opposed to iPod DJ) just has to match beats so I’m going to toss out those musicians for this illustration. It boils down to those notes existing at frequencies that when combined, build something bigger and fuller and more beautiful and descriptive — a chord. Think about what Fm says — dark, disco, funk. Or what F#m says — some sort of deep blue and violet beauty with sanguine tears. And the straight G/C/D major progression which is what fake hippies that are trying to impress college chicks with their shitty guitar playing sound like. All of the chords mentioned there require 3 notes to exist, and reverberate different emotional signatures. And those emotional signatures are the footprint of harmonics.
So why do F#, A, and C# work as notes that make up the F#m (F sharp minor) chord? They belong together because of the frequency at which they vibrate. Likewise, I think that can be extrapolated to peoples’ vibrations. The thing is though, that with people, they are notes that are conscious, awake, alive, and interactive. So I think it is obvious what I am driving at — which is that you can find other “notes” that work with you to complete a chord. Take that in whatever manner you wish. Love, friendship, business partners, whatever, but the fact is you are only going to feel harmony with people that vibrate in a way that complements you.
The caveat I would offer is that as conscious beings, you are able to control the note that you wish to represent. You can emulate many notes if you wish. That is another name for schizophrenia which I think nobody is immune to (like the way that every single person is on a graduated scale of homosexuality). So until you’re fully aware of what note you actually are, you might be part of songs containing chords that are not at all what you were designed for. I mean c’mon, I was into Dungeons and Dragons for a while for fuck’s sake … well ok I guess I was sort of designed for that. This schizophrenic activity can actually be fully deliberate in the act of harmonic chameleoning, which can be useful if you are in an acting/spying/veritable-sheistering career. But when it comes to actual life, it behooves you to know your real frequency. Otherwise you could be contributing your note to a Kenny G tune and not even know it. You could also be sucked into a chord by people maliciously looking for a missing note, which you are able to emulate.
One last thing which speaks to guitar dissonance and feedback – which is that … yea sometimes distortion sounds cool as fuck. So def spend time with dissonant people. You might get a cool sound, some head bangers, some misanthropes, and a shitload of morphine, heroin, and/or cocaine. Basically that means just do what you do everyday — deal with lamewads.
-rishi
Pilla
“Bird” (mp3)
from “Bird / At Sea”
(Littlest Mojo Recordings)
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rrrrrg. i cannot stop listening to this song.
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Pink Computer
“Will You Be Mine” (mp3)
from “So 80′s”
(Somekind Records)
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No. 3 YACHT – “See a Penny Pick it up” from Retread Sessions on Vimeo.
this is an awesome spontaneous music vid
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These lyrics i lifted from some other site, but i love them:
Well someone said i made a mistake
Kept looking forward on paths sideways
It’s everything that is connected and beautiful
And now i know just where i stand
Seasons always shift too late
Spent too much time now on paths sideways
Everything that is connected and beautiful
And now i know just where i stand
Thank god it’s over….
Encore!
Find more music like this on SxSW '08 Insider's Guide
This is music from bands confirmed for SXSW 2008.
It’s from http://sxsw.ning.com/ which is run by the lovely Corey Denis – all about how to prepare yourself for the SXSW musical and film..ical excursion held annually in Austin, TX.
I think he’s telling that girl to “take it easy dawg.” (?)
ha, he has a shirt that says ‘don’t hassle the hoff’
This song will punch your stupid ass in the face.
I’m not sure what that means…
The RIAA is being dicks again, so weird. But now they are pushing it to the point that copying music from your own CD to your own computer or MP3 player is grounds for a lawsuit. They say that copying a song you bought is “a nice way of saying ‘steals just one copy.’ ”
But this was the best angle I saw on it, an excerpt from the article:
As technologies evolve, old media companies tend not to be the source of the innovation that allows them to survive. Even so, new technologies don’t usually kill off old media: That’s the good news for the recording industry, as for the TV, movie, newspaper and magazine businesses. But for those old media to survive, they must adapt, finding new business models and new, compelling content to offer.
The RIAA’s legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only “created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies,” Beckerman says. “Every problem they’re trying to solve is worse now than when they started.”
Ray Beckerman is a New York lawyer who represents six clients who have been sued by the RIAA.
ok, ok. i guess i’ll give jersey some respect
XM is not something I currently subscribe to, but I think their ads campaigns are excellent. I just saw a new one while watching current.tv, but could not find the clip. It’s something reminiscent of a slaughterhouse, but it has normal people on a conveyor belt which moves them through a music playing machine. When they come out the other side, they have customized musical tastes and lifestyles. I think it is a commercial ad that supports the diversity of cultures. But the one I listed here also conveys that sentiment. Checkout the gold tooth at the end, ha.
XM obviously makes money by celebrating the diversity of music, but still it is something to be celebrated. What really is cool is when a new genre is invented as fusion genres inspired by existing genres. Off the top of my head I will say Ratatat is a good example of this with their fusion of hip-hip, rock, end electronic funk. Another obvious example is Led Zeppelin getting their sound from blues and rock.
It’s a shame when one genre gets ridiculed by another. I for example, like to mock the song “I Wanna Rock” by Twisted Sister because I am a jerk. Let me just pose this question: why wouldn’t he just rock instead of repeatedly exclaiming that he has inclinations of rocking? It just doesn’t make sense, people. But yeah that is bad because Twisted Sister does indeed rock – don’t base your decision on the quality of their music on that gaping hole in logic.
I am just saying that I enjoy the musicianship demonstrated by artists like Indian classical musicians including Zakir Hussein, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Ravi Shankar, and Shiv Kumar Sharma as much as I enjoy good pop hooks & lyrics. Adult contemporary can shit themselves to death at an Oprah taping for all I care, but who knows, maybe I will enjoy that genre when I am dying or dead?
Right, anyway, rockon ad agency who did this ad.
As of today I guess?
