Quantum Cello
In this podcast, you’ll hear Jad and Zoe discuss the physics (if not metaphysics) of looping sound and how to use a 17th century instrument to make avant-garde electronic music. (Via Chris Olsen, thanks Chris!)
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Random Rules-January 14
The Onion AV Club does this every so often where they ask people to put their ipods on random and then talk about the songs that come up. I figured I'd put my iTunes on random and see what happened, here's a few:
The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain
This is probably my favorite Temptations song. It's all about how raindrops will hide his teardrops because he has lost his woman. Just a beautiful song, super solid string section and there are thunder samples throughout the song. Totally brilliant.
Desmond Dekker & The Aces - It Pays
I got a huge amount of Desmond Dekker songs from Jeremiah while I was staying with him in Chicago this last time and it has become a staple of my listening of recent. Dekker was amazingly prolific and totally solid ska.
Minus the Bear - Memphis & 53rd
I pretty much wore the grooves out of this record when it came out. These dudes have been putting out some of the most solid rock records of the past decade. Awesome guitar playing, weird and catchy, probably singlehandedly responsible for 3/4 of the Line6 delay pedals sold in the last five years. I like how this song and Ice Monster off of Planet of Ice are vaguely about spy thrillers or something...
The Chemical Brothers - Don't Stop the Rock
I was talking to someone today about my unabashed love of late 90s big beat music and it doesn't get any better than Dig Your own Hole by the Chems. I listened to this obsessively when I was a kid. There's something so satisfying about the robo-funkiness of the Chemical Brothers, I hold this record very near and dear to my 14 year old heart.
La Quiete - Alle Fogle
Someone introduced me to this Italian emo-violence band pretty recently after a conversation about Amanda Woodward and Aussitot Mort. I'm not sure what it is about these European hardcore bands that just really rubs me the right way, lots of shouting in another language, weird mathy riffs and, apparently, according to this song, epic piano parts?
Brothers Quetico - Treat for Shock
These guys were great. They pretty quietly put out three records in Minneapolis over the last couple years before breaking up and going their separate ways. Kind of a Shellac-y post rock band. I played a few shows with them and they were always a good time. Nice beards, too.
the Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
Neon Bible wasn't a disappointment as much as it was just...eh... This song sounds like an outtake from Funeral. They obviously couldn't have made another record of these but man it must be hard to make another record after you nail simplicity that well. I also saw a video on YouTube of Bruce Springsteen doing this song with them which makes perfect sense as this soungs like the Boss at his most euphoric/cro-magnon.
Cassius - Foxxy
From the same era as Dig Your own Hole, I used to LOVE French house. There's something about Cassius and most things that French people do with synthesizers that just oozes that Gallic cool, like Serge Gainsbourg smoking a cigarette in a space suit, drinking something neon colored from a glass shaped like a pyramid.
The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain
This is probably my favorite Temptations song. It's all about how raindrops will hide his teardrops because he has lost his woman. Just a beautiful song, super solid string section and there are thunder samples throughout the song. Totally brilliant.
Desmond Dekker & The Aces - It Pays
I got a huge amount of Desmond Dekker songs from Jeremiah while I was staying with him in Chicago this last time and it has become a staple of my listening of recent. Dekker was amazingly prolific and totally solid ska.
Minus the Bear - Memphis & 53rd
I pretty much wore the grooves out of this record when it came out. These dudes have been putting out some of the most solid rock records of the past decade. Awesome guitar playing, weird and catchy, probably singlehandedly responsible for 3/4 of the Line6 delay pedals sold in the last five years. I like how this song and Ice Monster off of Planet of Ice are vaguely about spy thrillers or something...
The Chemical Brothers - Don't Stop the Rock
I was talking to someone today about my unabashed love of late 90s big beat music and it doesn't get any better than Dig Your own Hole by the Chems. I listened to this obsessively when I was a kid. There's something so satisfying about the robo-funkiness of the Chemical Brothers, I hold this record very near and dear to my 14 year old heart.
La Quiete - Alle Fogle
Someone introduced me to this Italian emo-violence band pretty recently after a conversation about Amanda Woodward and Aussitot Mort. I'm not sure what it is about these European hardcore bands that just really rubs me the right way, lots of shouting in another language, weird mathy riffs and, apparently, according to this song, epic piano parts?
Brothers Quetico - Treat for Shock
These guys were great. They pretty quietly put out three records in Minneapolis over the last couple years before breaking up and going their separate ways. Kind of a Shellac-y post rock band. I played a few shows with them and they were always a good time. Nice beards, too.
the Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
Neon Bible wasn't a disappointment as much as it was just...eh... This song sounds like an outtake from Funeral. They obviously couldn't have made another record of these but man it must be hard to make another record after you nail simplicity that well. I also saw a video on YouTube of Bruce Springsteen doing this song with them which makes perfect sense as this soungs like the Boss at his most euphoric/cro-magnon.
Cassius - Foxxy
From the same era as Dig Your own Hole, I used to LOVE French house. There's something about Cassius and most things that French people do with synthesizers that just oozes that Gallic cool, like Serge Gainsbourg smoking a cigarette in a space suit, drinking something neon colored from a glass shaped like a pyramid.
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