Video: More drums – the history of the Amen break beat
Mesmerizing audio, with a vid that features a phonograph spinning soothingly for 18+ minutes! The narrator has an even drier delivery than I do.
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Mesmerizing audio, with a vid that features a phonograph spinning soothingly for 18+ minutes! The narrator has an even drier delivery than I do.
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It sounds kind of like one is printing off a school paper. Or a letter. Or any of dozens of other written materials. [little-scale]
More printer sounds (and music hacks) here, by Paul Slocum.
*MAKE takes on music: How to make a mellotron out of walkmans (not walkmen?).
*Local: Tryouts for a music reality show come to Minneapolis. 40+ rockers (of whom we are not wanting) can audition for READY 2 ROCK (caps theirs), a forthcoming making-of-the-band kinda reality program. See Metblog Mpls for details.
*Gizmodo: The iPhone sucks. Also: are iPods creating a crime wave in New York?
*Anthony Bourdain in Spin on music in 1977. (Bourdain is speaking at a company gig in 2 weeks.) [via Fimoculous]
*The Times asks if Facebook is worth $10B.
*Microsoft files a patent for a system for the Zune to automatically deliver content to a listening device based on past actions and pre-set preferences. [ZDnet via Engadget]
What is this steaming pile of Billboard BS?
Ugh.
The Wall Street Journal writes up the Vicipaedia Latina – the Latin version of Wikipedia – calling it a labor of love for “weekend philologists” who often have to linguistically improvise in order to keep with the times. (I love weekend philology!)
Here’s the Latin entry for the Beatles. And here is the entry for rock music, or musica rockica. Lastly, Apple Computatra (but there’s no iPod entry!).
Repetitive. But mesmerizing.
A presentation by deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie (it’s long!).
If this doesn’t bend your mind, you have problems. (Not even kidding!) I recommend listening with the sound ON.
This video was featured on Fark recently with the headline “The single greatest moment in the history of televised media.”
That might be hype, but the song is burned into my brain.
Embedded audio clips give you a taste of the magic (listening to “Unforgettale” is highly recommended!) on the When Pigs Fly CD, a compilation of unlikely covers which also includes The Oak Ridge Boys singing “Carry On My Wayward Son.” [notes]
For a while! From Italian TV.
