A few old tracks (music)
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drwexI kind of fell off the music posting bandwagon. I tend to do a standard group of DJ sets and not as much random music these days. Tabs have accumulated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khpL08_O1WE
Over the past year Aron Chupa and Little Sis Nora have released several tracks. This is my favorite of them, both for the tune and the video. It has all the things I like from a modern swing track, the lyrics are fun and a little sly, and the video choreography is excellent. 5/5 stars, this one has been on my repeat play list for some time.
https://soundcloud.com/forkingandcountry/together-r3hab-remix-feat-tori
One of the commenters called this "swingstep" which is an interesting idea. It's definitely not "pop". It combines rich harmonic vocals with an uptempo beat. R3HAB worked with King & Country to do this remix of their track "Together". As with many of these things, my main complaint is that it's too short. As posted the track barely tops 2:30 and I have to believe it could easily be filled out from here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMGF7oVJEU
I wish I could remember who suggested Harsh Armadillo to me. This ensemble hits several of my sweet spots, particularly the live funky horns, smooth vocals that draw from both older scat and modern rap stylings. They are New England local and I had been planning to try and track them down and see them live pre-COVID. Maybe that's a thing I can do now. I have to point out that this track is also an excellent example of how to mix a rich full sound without swamping out your lead vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPxoZbEA7sw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV38vlz0Dq8
Been a while since I did one of these pairings. This is Solarstone's "Seven Cities". This track is popular in many of the DJ sets I listen to and has been off and on since it was first released in 1999. The original is long, high BPM, and almost frenetic. Interestingly, there's a drawn-out synth track that soars behind the speedy beats. So what if you flipped that around, and emphasized the dreamy nature of it? The second version, Tom Staar's remix, does exactly that. Gone are the high BPM and instead we get a track I think of as 'sunrise music'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei3IaJDgZGk
Violet Orlandi was also quite prolific during lockdown. She's released a string of her trademark covers, often collaborations. This cover of Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" is one such. Ai Mori (https://www.youtube.com/c/AiMori) a Russian cover artist brings the screaming insanity this track requires, leaving Orlandi to do what she does best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khpL08_O1WE
Over the past year Aron Chupa and Little Sis Nora have released several tracks. This is my favorite of them, both for the tune and the video. It has all the things I like from a modern swing track, the lyrics are fun and a little sly, and the video choreography is excellent. 5/5 stars, this one has been on my repeat play list for some time.
https://soundcloud.com/forkingandcountry/together-r3hab-remix-feat-tori
One of the commenters called this "swingstep" which is an interesting idea. It's definitely not "pop". It combines rich harmonic vocals with an uptempo beat. R3HAB worked with King & Country to do this remix of their track "Together". As with many of these things, my main complaint is that it's too short. As posted the track barely tops 2:30 and I have to believe it could easily be filled out from here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMGF7oVJEU
I wish I could remember who suggested Harsh Armadillo to me. This ensemble hits several of my sweet spots, particularly the live funky horns, smooth vocals that draw from both older scat and modern rap stylings. They are New England local and I had been planning to try and track them down and see them live pre-COVID. Maybe that's a thing I can do now. I have to point out that this track is also an excellent example of how to mix a rich full sound without swamping out your lead vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPxoZbEA7sw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV38vlz0Dq8
Been a while since I did one of these pairings. This is Solarstone's "Seven Cities". This track is popular in many of the DJ sets I listen to and has been off and on since it was first released in 1999. The original is long, high BPM, and almost frenetic. Interestingly, there's a drawn-out synth track that soars behind the speedy beats. So what if you flipped that around, and emphasized the dreamy nature of it? The second version, Tom Staar's remix, does exactly that. Gone are the high BPM and instead we get a track I think of as 'sunrise music'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei3IaJDgZGk
Violet Orlandi was also quite prolific during lockdown. She's released a string of her trademark covers, often collaborations. This cover of Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" is one such. Ai Mori (https://www.youtube.com/c/AiMori) a Russian cover artist brings the screaming insanity this track requires, leaving Orlandi to do what she does best.
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Date: 2021-06-06 12:45 pm (UTC)"Alva Noto is the electronic-musician persona of German composer and visual artist Carsten Nicolai.
This song is a gorgeous, glacially-slow, sonically rich rendition of what I've always thought was The Cure's high-water mark. To make a slow-moving version of something with such propulsive energy, Nicolai has done something ingenious, which is that he's come up with something just as propulsive, just much slower. This track moves like a leviathan through dark cold waters. The original song had a rachety guitar line playing against a slow four-note figure; this has the slow four-note figure playing against something deep and oceanic."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P75ECqJM74
That's a bit on the slow side
Date: 2021-06-06 01:29 pm (UTC)