Holy Fuck - Latin
Love those drums! There's a lot of funk and groove in Latin that gets the head bopping and the feet tapping. It even wins out over Ratatat's new album LP4 which is pretty damn awesome, too.
Left: Feel.Love.Thinking.Of (2009)
Right: High Expectations/Low Results (2005)
Just a heads up for the music and sci-fi fans. XLR8R music mag has put together a compilation of tracks inspired by the TV series Caprica. There are some decent tracks in there, a lot of cool ambient stuff. Great music for headphone listening. And hey, it's completely free! The tracks are all mp3 files at 160kbps.
Pesky white backgrounds be gone! (it's an option, though. Now everyone's happy).
27/10/09 Update for clarification and Evil self-censorship: Unfortunately, the tabla arrived with a giant split in the head of the dayan. Whether this was a result of the gamma irradiation process (it happens) or purposefully by relentless staff from the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Services (AQIS), is something I'll probably never know. Right now, I wouldn't be averse to blaming AQIS whether it was their fault or not because of all of the other dramas involved in this entire process. It's been one epic saga, that's for sure, and I'm not talking about the positive kind. I'd blog about it, but the saga still continues. Maybe once it's over...
Jimmy Douglass talked about the overuse of dynamic range compression, admitting that since most music is listened to over crappy computer speakers or cheap earbuds, compression is required to make it sound acceptable. Sad, but true.
Sad, but true, indeed. The uncertain future of music has me a little worried.
It's crazy that there's an entire generation of kids who think 256kbps MP3's listened to through Apple iPod earbuds is what music is supposed to sound like.
Even crazier is the fact that the quality of music has regressed, rather than progressed. We've gone from CD-quality audio to compressed formats such as MP3 and AAC.
Is the temptation of convenience destroying high quality audio and the future of music?
The Chronicles of Israfel - Starborn, Tome I
I've been meaning to pick up this album for a very long time, and finally got around to doing so. It's the creation of Dominic Cifarelli, who was the guitarist for Pulse Ultra (they disbanded in 2004). The Chronicles of Israfel is experimental, progressive, story-driven, and full of awesome. Check it out.
Tortoise - Standards
Tortoise - TNT
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
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