TDR: You mean, if the guys talk to fans, and let slip that they’re working the midnight shift at 7/11, or living on ramen and pachinko, it’ll be hard for the fans to picture him as a bisexual 17th century British vampire space-man after that?
SATOH-SAN: You understand this phenomenon very well!
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Japanese Music Fans
Saturday, March 6th, 2010An incredible combination
Monday, January 25th, 2010I know funny people
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Ouch, my neck. | William C. White
I’m sort of an expert on this subject, since in my interior mental life, I have in fact attended most of the orchestral concerts, night club acts, and cocktail parties that took place from 1932 – 1959.
Shooting Airwaves
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Three years after I went to Iceland Airwaves for Stirred Up, our old designer Rasha went there to photograph it for Dazed & Confused: Making Airwaves. Cool!
It made me dig out my old Airwaves photos and go through them. Maybe I’ll do a big dump of them onto Flickr. Here’s Sabina Sciubba from Brazilian Girls:
Iggy Pop
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009One of the coolest dudes around. And David Bowie is supporting him on piano!!!!
Monkey Music
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009Tamarin monkeys aren’t wild about human music but they like music specially composed for them.
Mashups, the Funky Kind
Thursday, May 21st, 2009While I’ve been focusing a lot on web mashups recently, even closer to my heart are music mashups. I introduced friends to bunch of my favorite tracks last night and I figure I should share them here. Here are my favorite mashups and remixes from across the web. Enjoy!
One of my all time favorite tracks, period, is Soulwax’s remix of Six Days. There are a lot of great versions of this song, which I’ve discussed earlier.
Pheugoo makes some fantastic mashups. I’m particularly into Dip It Joe. La Naughty Femme and Robot Wars (Release the Beast) are also classics.
DJ Earworm has some great stuff. You’ve probably seen his Reckoner Lockdown mashup:
However, you should go beyond that track and check out Fedde Le Freak, Brazilian Diamonds and Got to Give Up the Dancefloor.
World Famous Audio Hacker has some fun tunes: 1520 Sedgwick (Part 2) has some real bounce to it while What’s That Sound? gets pretty crazy. L.E.S. Artistes (Pause Button Mix) is also good.
DJ Z-Trip is incredible. His Live in LA album is so much fun and his remix of I Want You Back is TIGHT!
Gangstagrass is a majestic mashup of just that, gangsta rap and bluegrass:
The Summer of Love 2008 mashup album is lots of fun. Get your glow sticks out!
If you like David Bowie you’ll love Ziggy Stardush Remixed:
The Music Remixed project has done some great remixes of albums, specifically The Chemical Brother’s Push the Button and Prodigy’s Always Outsiders, Never Outdone
Speaking of The Chemical Brothers, Brother’s Gonna Work It Out is a fantastic mix album. Check out Makin’ A Living/Hot Wheels:
Continuing the theme of more mainstream remixes, Everybody Hertz is a fantastic remix album of Air’s 10000 Hertz. I’m particularly partial to Don’t Be Light (Malibu Remix). Blippy, bouncy, sleazy!
The Chant Down Babylon album has some OK Bob Marley remixes, except for Survival AKA Black Survivors with Chuck D, which is fantastic:
BOB MARLEY – Survival A.K.A. Black Survivors (feat Chuck D)
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For the M.I.A. fans out there, check this DFA remix of Paper Planes:
And to make things even easier for you to dive into the wonderful work of mashups and remixes, I’ve created a Mashups and Remixes set in my Twones library. Email me if you would like a Twones invite.
The Crystal Method also has a great album of remixes of other artists they’ve done. I’m particularly partial to their Smashing Pumpkins, 1979 (New Originals 1799 Remix). On the same Community Service II album you can find a good Reign remix.
Bonus: If you don’t know it, check out Lounge Against the Machine. Hilarious!
“I don’t read newspapers because they all have ugly print.”
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Who knew Mos Def was such a typography nerd? Listen to this remix of Six Days and enjoy.
Soulwax also has a ridiculously good remix of Six Day:
Thanks to Wikipedia I discovered that the original version is called Six Day War and is by Colonel Bagshot:
Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008What more could you want? Listen to a ton of great songs from their 1969 sessions at Aquarium Drunkard.
