Santa María da Feira

My new favorite song of the day!

Ready for the Floor

Can't get enough of this songa. Keep hearing it all day. When I get to the end I hit replay and I hear it again. And again, and again.

I keep picturing parties and friends and people laughing hitting it off like it's the first day of october.

Why the first of october you say? Who cares? I say. Listen to it.

Discover Hot Chip!

yatta!

Zombie Disco Squad!

Can't stop listening to the house mix tape from zds. literally. I highly recommend the "i wish i was black and gay in 1985" as well. Those are the ones i enjoy most for the moment, but have a look-see for yourself right here:

http://www.zombiediscosquad.com/mixtapes.htm
http://www.myspace.com/zombiediscosquad

MUTO a wall-painted animation

Blu is the Italian artist who has created MUTO, a wall-painted stop-motion animation that seems perversely psychedelic and painstakingly methodical.

It was filmed in the streets of Buenos Aires and Baden mixed with music by Andrea Martignoni. Enjoy!

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.


blublu.org
blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm

Computer-Generated Music

(from radiolab)
Musical DNA

Which came first: Language or Music? We're still not sure, but now we'll ponder what comes next. Producer Jonathan Mitchell brings us a piece about David Cope, the composer and professor at UC Santa Cruz, who cured his artist’s block by writing a computer program to do the dirty work for him. His program, named EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), deconstructs the works of great composers, finding patterns within the voice leading of their compositions, and then creates brand new compositions based on the patterns she finds. But it's not just copy and paste. She brings something new to the pieces. Drift along to the eerily enchanting music of EMI Mahler and ask yourself this: What would Mahler think of an EMI Mahler score? Brilliant music? A forgery?

Download computer-generated music

Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental

Bloody brilliant!

Moby gratis

Edit your videos, add music, and don't worry about getting sued. Moby has set up this site, where he just gives away music for independent film makers to use in their films.

It's an awesome marketing scheme on his part. He gets exposure in all kinds of films that would have otherwise used other music to score their films, and this indirectly promotes his commercial music.

A win-win situation for moby and the film makers. The only glitch I see is the fact that you can't edit the music (only shorten it). What if I wanted to sample a sound, or loop a segment for whatever reason. Or what if I want to use this for a video game? And what if it's a short film INSIDE a video game? Will I be "vigorously pursued by the relevant copyright owner"?

It sort of contradicts the whole philosophy. I would go a step further and make it free, editable, for whatever content (staying true to the non-commercial bit of the contract, though).

In any case, it's a step in the right direction. It won't be long before more artists catch on.

Pitch Black

Rude Animals, their latest album, is "impossibly hypnotic".

Hard to box into a single audio ’genre’, Pitch Black is a combination of musical journeys, created by Paddy Free and Michael Hodgson. Their sound is distinctive; ranging from organic ambient beginnings and layered soundscapes to skanking keyboards, cutting acid riffs and thumping rhythmic grooves, with dub being the glue that holds their sound together.

"Fresh, modern and impossibly hypnotic" Q
"The sound of the future" iDJ

http://www.pitchblack.co.nz/?s1=albums

Song of the day - Hawaii

Ohta-San

Such feeling coming from such a small instrument; simply amazing.

Song of the Day - Backwater

The Meat Puppets

Song of the Day? - I Really Wanted You

Pansy Division

Maybe you like them, maybe you don't. I'm putting this one up just 'cause the video is a Billie Joe/Mike Dirnt slide show. Dedicated to my sister Fabs!

Keep rocking, weirdo...

Song of the Day - Police and Thieves

Junior Murvin

This song was apparently an international hit during the summer of 1976. I didn't know that, I just found the song to be pretty cool. Found a sing-a-long version on YouTube.

Take it easy, but take it ;-)

Song of the Day - Black Hole Sun

Soundgarden

Definitely a great song (way up on Soundgarden's Top 10) accompanied by an excellent video. A must watch!

Svaj

Song of the Day - It's The End Of The World As We Know It

R.E.M

Well ok, maybe it's just the end of the year, but a whole bunch of things have been hitting the fan lately. Hussein was made a saint, Bush choked on another cookie and Gorbachev celebrated 16 years with a Nobel Peace Prize. Castro is about to die, Google bought its first party plane and Americans keep getting fatter.

No offense intended, it's just the word on the street.

Love to stay and have a chat, but I still have about a week to spend in the States and I'll try to keep it busy.

I'll keep posting (consistently) when I get back to Somewherein, in the mean time, here's R.E.M.

Svaj

Song of the Day - Man of The World

Fleetwood Mac

Ok, I'm just gonna stop saying "this is a great song" and stuff like that every time I post a Song of the Day, because, well, if it's here it IS great.

This is Fleetwood Mac at its best, the Beat Club performance in 1969.

The dude.

Song of the Day - Sonne

Rammstein

Amazing song, I just HAD to make it song of the day. Watch this very powerful live performance from England.

Cheers

Song of the Day - Beds are Burning

Midnight Oils

I didn't know them either, but this group was apparently very popular in the Australian underground hacking scene in the 1980s, as I found out in this book (Underground by Suelette Dreyfus - get it free here).

There's an interesting story about one of the first computer worms released in the wild, which paid homage to the Midnight Oils by sending annoying messages with the text 'Oilz' to infected users.

The song is all right, the video could have been better...

Svaj

Song of the Day - Wild World

Cat Stevens

Outstanding live performance of this now classical tune (from Tea For The Tillerman).

Stevens wrote this [song] about searching for peace and happiness in a crazy world. Much of it was a message to Patti D'Arbanville, an actress he had been dating.

This was one of the songs that convinced Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, to release a boxed set of his songs in 2001. He stopped making secular music in 1979, but came to realize that people find strength and inspiration in the songs he recorded as Cat Stevens.
Wild World Song Facts

Svaj

Song of the Day - Seether

Veruca Salt

I met them through the Australian Music show and thought they were underground Aussies, but apparently they're from Chicago and pretty much mainstream.

No difference, it's still cool to listen to a nice rock group with hot girls as lead-singer and guitarist. Seether was their first single from American Thighs (1994). Enjoy.

Svaj