Happy Rosh Hashanah
Today is the Jewish New Year. To celebrate I give you this kickass classic called “Halevai” by Moishe Oysher and the Barry Sisters
Halevai – Moishe Oysher and The Barry Sisters
L’shanah Tovah!
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music
B Flat
Play any of these together, some or all. Start them at any time, in any order. Mix them with the individual volume sliders. Then sit back and get washed over by the B flat ambiance.
Crying Over Auto Tune Part II
A couple weeks back I posted about an auto-tuned crying baby. Well DJ /Rupture was given a track put together by DJ Champion call “Baako” witch mixes the auto-tuned crybaby from my previous post over a relentlessly simple loop. DJ /Rupture says,
Arnold Zea gave this to me. He got it in Ghana, telling me, “I remember two guys in the studio listening to this music and talking about it as music for body exercise.” It is 12 minutes long and features a baby crying through full Auto-Tune (and cheap reverb). There’s more, but I’m not gonna spoil it here. The sound makes you stop and listen. Oh yeah, it’s over a one-bar hiplife loop.
I think it’s pretty horrible. Have a listen: DJ Champion – Baako
On the other end of the spectrum, Matt Smith, has created his own sample of an auto-tuned crying baby and turned it into an absolutely wonderful song that will get stuck in your gooey grey matter all day. As of yet, there is just a sample but give it a listen: Matt Smith – Untitled
I can’t make a post like this without mentioning Buzz Clifford’s “Baby Sittin’ Boogie”. This song may be considered the original baby-sound song. The song peaked at #6 on Billboards Hot 100 in 1961 and eventually sold over 1 million copies. I think it’s terrible.
I would have to say my favorite baby-sound song is Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody”
UPDATE:
Another African DJ, Lwamondo Production, has used the same baby crying sample from above for his remix called Baby Cryin.
It’s All In The Ending
I really dug the video for Mat & Kim‘s song “Lessons Learned” (great song to boot). Not since The Prodigy‘s “Slap My Bitch Up” has the last 10 seconds of a music video made such an indelible impact on me. There is a decent interview with them on Pitchfork about the video.
I posted both of the videos below. It’s important to watch the last ten seconds of each video. It should also be noted that both videos are NSFW.
Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy
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Lessons Learned by Matt & Kim – This one is in HD so watch it full-screen
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JoJo’s Mardi Gras Band
Last weekend I went to see JoJo’s Mardi Gras Band at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom. JoJo is the keyboardist for Widespread Panic, but his side project is nothing like his main band – Jojo’s Mardi Gras Band plays nothing but fast moving Mardi Gras music that keeps you but shaking the entire time. They have that quintessential sound of New Orleans. I suggest the next time your in town you go check them out. JoJo’s MGB doesn’t have any recorded music but you can purchase a live album of their 2007 Denver performance. Somebody at the show on Saturday had a mic set up, so I’m sure there is a copy of it out there somewhere. Taper, if your reading this, I’d love a copy. As an added extra bonus to the evening I visited my secret bar.
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Billy Mays Is A Sad Robot
There is something about this Kaboom commercial that is filtered through auto-tune that I really enjoy. It was created by CastOutTheSelf, and although it may not be quite as funny as Jabo0ody’s dubs, I like it better.
This Kaboom commercial is apparently run at 140 BPM. I wonder if there have been and studies done to determine the perfect beats per minute for shysters to use for there sing-song pitches? Does the lyrical styling of Billy May’s script help us tune into the commercial?
2009 SXSW Free Music Torrents & Radio
Here are two torrents containing all the MP3 files publicly posted on the SXSW website that will be showcasing this year. More may music may show up, these may be packaged up into an third torrent at some point in the future.
SXSW 2009 Showcasing Artists Part 1, 519 files, 2.44GB
SXSW 2009 Showcasing Artists Part 2, 534 files, 2.60GB
If you don’t want to have all these songs on your hard drive but want to have a listen, use this SXSW radio.
2008: The Year In Music
According to last.fm these are the bands that I listened to most during 2008. There are a few bands that were also on last years list, namely Ween and Modest Mouse, however both have slid down in there positioning.
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1. Ween (4th last year)
2. The Beatles (9th last year)
3. Nirvana
4. Pixies
5. Peter Tosh
6. Gomez
7. Built To Spill
8. Neutral Milk Hotel
9. Pennywise
10. The Raconteurs
Below is a wave graph of the top 75 artists that I listened to over the last year (click for a larger image). It’s a great way to visualize the trends in my listening habits throughout the year. And it sure is purty.
And these are the songs I listened to most:
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1. The Raconteurs – Together
2. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
3. The Raconteurs – Intimate Secretary
4. Ween – She’s Your Baby
5. Peter Tosh – Get Up, Stand Up
6. Nirvana – About A Girl (Home Recording)
7. The Raconteurs – Yellow Sun
8. Pixies – Alec Eiffel
9. Built To Spill – Goin’ Against Your Mind
10. The Rolling Stones – She’s So Cold
As far as live music goes, here are my 2008 top four:
1. Ween
2. Bishop Allen / The Republic Tigers / Electric Owls
3. Widespread Panic
4. The Police / Elvis Costello And The Impostors
Last.fm is the service I use to track my listening habits. I’m always trying to discover new music so please go ahead and friend me over at last.fm.
And if you are really bored you can check out my Twones account which tracks all of my music listening on Hypemachine, MySpace, Youtube, and Favtape.
Artifacting Tumblr’s Mixtube Mix
So I haven’t convinced you to visit my Tumbler blog yet? Well I’ve created a mixtube mix (mixtube is like muxtape + youtube – videos) which contains the soundtracks to all the musically related videos I’ve posted to date. Songs range from the surreal – “Big Beefy Balls” by Rachael Ray – to the sublime – “Tainted Love” by The Re-entrants. Go have a listen.