Ten years, 100 songs, three minutes. Sheer. Fucking. Genius. Watch it before a Youtube copyright enforcement bot deletes it and DJ Earworm's channel with it. (via Metafilter) Read the rest
DJ Earworm: 100 songs from the past decade in one mashup
Music that inspired 1980s Japanese environmental music composer Yukata Hirose
Yutaka Hirose is a Japanese composer who was a key figure in that country's ambient/environmental music scene of the 1980s that in recent years has been rediscovered by crate-diggers around the world. Hirose's "NOVA" (1986) is a classic of the genre, a soundscape that Misawa Home Corporation commissioned as a "soundtrack" for the prefabricated houses. While original LPs have sold for hundreds of dollars, WRWTFWW Records have recently reissued the record as an expanded double LP and double CD. (For a further exploration of Japanese environmental music of the 1980s, Light in the Attic Records' "Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990" is a perfect portal.)
To celebrate the NOVA reissue, The Vinyl Factory asked Hirose to create a mix of music he was listening to and inspired by in the 1980s Listen above. It's a beautiful, sometimes-jarring, and totally compelling journey through avant-garde sounds of the time. Here's the tracklist:
Read the rest1. Jan Steele – All Day 2. David Toop – Do The Bathosphere 3. Gavin Bryars – 1, 2, 1-2-3-4 4. Joan La Barbara – Poems 43, 44, 45 5. Meredith Monk – Waltz 6. Karlheinz Stockhausen – Stimmung 7. John Cage – Seven Haiku 8. Throbbing Gristle – Almost A Kiss 9. Robert Ashley – Yellow Man With Heart With Wings 10. The Flying Lizards – The Window 11. Henry Cow Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road 12. Faust – Faust 13. CAN – Future Days 14. Tangerine Dream：Rubycon 15. Michael Nyman – Decay Music 16.
Youtube told them to use this "royalty-free" music; now rightsholders are forcing ads on their videos and claiming most of the revenue
'Dreams' by Joakim Karud is a popular track in Youtube's library of safe, royalty-free music, which it supplies to video creators who want to stay on the right side of copyright, but Sonyatv and Warner Chappell claim that the Creative Commons-licensed song contains an uncleared sample from the Kenny Burrell Quartet's 'Weaver of Dreams,' which has allowed the giant rightsholder corporations to claim ownership over any video that incorporates the track and demand the lion's share of the revenue generated by the tens of millions of views associated with them. Read the rest
Roger Stone, you've been THUNDERSTRUCK
Oh, I've been waiting for this day for a long time. Read the rest
Watch: 9-year-old girl kills Nirvana's 'In Bloom' on drums
Nandi Bushell channels drummer David Grohl as she drums to Nirvana's "In Bloom." Read the rest
Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes wrote a young adult novel and it sounds fantastically weird
Gibby Haynes, frontman for legendary psych band the Butthole Surfers, penned a young adult novel, "Me and Mr. Cigar," to be released in January. And no surprise, it sound fantastically far fucking out. I can't wait to read it. Here's the description:
Read the restSeventeen-year-old Oscar Lester is never without his dog, Mr. Cigar. The two have made a pretty good life for themselves in North Texas, organizing drug-fueled dance parties with Oscar’s best friend, Lytle Taylor. The only real grownup in Oscar’s life is Carla Marks, protégé of his deceased father and the genius behind the enigmatic IBC Corporation. (Oscar’s mom spends all of her time with her new boyfriend.) Carla doesn’t approve of Oscar’s nefarious activity, though his parties provide an ideal environment to test-run some of IBC’s more freakish technology. As for Oscar’s older sister, Rachel . . . she’s been gone for the past five years, having fled after Mr. Cigar bit off her hand.
But Oscar knows that his dog is no menace. Mr. Cigar is a loyal protector: a supernatural creature that can exact revenge, communicate telepathically, and manipulate car doors and windows with ease. So when Rachel—now twenty-two and an artist living in New York—calls out of the blue and claims that she’s being held hostage, Oscar sees an opportunity to make things right between them . . . at least until Carla Marks warns Oscar that Mr. Cigar’s life might be in danger, too.
Suddenly Oscar finds himself on the run with his dog and his best friend.
The Marble Machine X project shows the value of the Youtube community
Marble Machine X is an ongoing project by Martin Molin of the band Wintergatan to create an amusingly-complex mobile marble-powered instrument. Read the rest
The joy of elderly people doing the Thriller dance
The annual 'Thriller' performance at Abbington Senior Living is glorious pic.twitter.com/aEbru9qWA5
— Giles Paley-Phillips (@eliistender10) November 10, 2019
Enjoy the funk of, er, 65+ years in this video of the annual Thriller dance at the Abbington Senior Living Mapleton center in Utah.
For me, this clip has a similar charm as David Greenberger's eternally amazing Duplex Planet interviews with elderly people. Read the rest
The Notorious B.I.G. as MODOK sculpture
Inspired by an illustration of the Notorious B.I.G. by Adam Rosenlund:
Rafael Phillips created the Notorious MODOK:
He has since made it available in a gray version:
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And now he is working on Jay-Z as Galactus:
Jaylactus, starting this back up! 💪🏾 pic.twitter.com/1PlnMvwVcq
— big meh (@Jehutysan) November 6, 2019
Techno performed with a jaw harp
This video delivers exactly what the headline promises, given a broad value for 'techno'. Read the rest
Rapper Lil Pump bitten by live snake while shooting music video
No touchie snek.
Snek no like Lil Pump. Read the rest
Raw Chicken song
Tyler Russo: "Let's eat raw chicken now/Drown me in chicken now/Please eat raw chicken with me."
Previously: Keep fucking that chicken. Read the rest
John Denver's "Country Roads" in minor key
A remarkably effective example of the "minor key" genre, where software is used to shift the chords and notes of an uplifting song to give it it a downcast mood (or vice versa). Read the rest
New software separates vocals and instruments in recorded music
Our pal Andy Baio has been experimenting with an audio separation library called spleeter "that uses machine learning to quickly and freely separate music into stems." It does a surprisingly good job, and he is using it to make funny mashups:
nobody should have this kind of power pic.twitter.com/4vbl2MGK4Z
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) November 5, 2019
Some genius mashed up the Ghostbusters theme with Nine Inch Nails' "Closer"
I ain't afraid of no fuckin' like an animal.
If this wasn't on your Halloween playlist, then what were you even doing?
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Ska punk cover version of a song from Undertale
My daughter finally got me to start playing Undertale (I'm playing on my Switch). The game has great music, which was all written and composed by Toby Fox, who created the game. In this video, Pickitup of the Ska Tune Network does a fantastic cover of one of the songs from the game, "Megalovania." Read the rest
Listen: "Bela Lugosi's Dead" vs Disneyland's Haunted Mansion
In 2004, Howard Hallis celebrated the devilishly wonderful crossover of Disney and Goth culture with the now-classic "Haunted Bela," a mash-up of Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" with the spooky narration heard in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion dark ride. Listen above! Howard also created the enchanting artwork, titled "Goth Princesses." Read the rest
