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Music in lieu of content
Jul. 25th, 2019 04:17 pmWriting actual content stuff is too much these days, so have some really wildly different music tracks. I'll do the singles first and save the sets for another post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ysFgElQtjI
This is conceptually brilliant and a great implementation of the idea: mix hip-hop and country. Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus have a track that is breaking all kinds of popularity records, for good reason. It's got rap sensibilities (that's some classic rap flow there) and country lyrics ("hat down, cross-town, ... spendin' lots of money on a new guitar"). The production is also fantastic, with Billy Ray Cyrus doing rap bits and Lil Nas X singing country bits. Then they join in a nice duo harmony. The track is kept spare and it's short, which I think actually increases its impact. I hope someone is making big book off this because it's going to see a thousand imitators in short order.
https://soundcloud.com/markknight/the-mystery-of-old-ma-clifton
Despite its title (The Mystery of Old Ma Clifton) this is not even a little a country song. This is Mark Knight with a fun tech house dance track. Normally I complain about tracks being too short; my one complaint here is that this track needs to be trimmed. There are just too many repetitions of phrases between the interesting gospel bits.
https://soundcloud.com/westwood-x/bel-air
Westwood X recommended this one to me: "Bel Air" by someone calling themselves RUMPUS. It's a pretty bouncy hip-hop dance track. It's got a fun deep-house bass undercurrent that makes this the kind of music I enjoy driving to. Not too fast, not too repetitve.
https://soundcloud.com/westwoodrecordings/dont-fight
Another find via Westwood's recommendations. The Nice Guy's "Don't Fight" is a jazzy, funky, upbeat track featuring Kali Phoenix, whose own work is often a kind of soft vocal set to big band-style orchestration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvd4ZzxUANY
This - Cosmic Cowboys & Lazarusman doing "If You Leave Tonight" - is the first track on a set list by Roy Miller that I might blog later. But I wanted to find this track and play it for you to see what you all thought. It is very spoken-word in away that reminds me a little of Soul Coughing but it's softer and more romantic and more fantastical. Listening to it feels very intense, as though the writer was struggling to get emotions out into words and the words are there but the meaning isn't - it's in what the words conjure in your head. Or in mine, at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ysFgElQtjI
This is conceptually brilliant and a great implementation of the idea: mix hip-hop and country. Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus have a track that is breaking all kinds of popularity records, for good reason. It's got rap sensibilities (that's some classic rap flow there) and country lyrics ("hat down, cross-town, ... spendin' lots of money on a new guitar"). The production is also fantastic, with Billy Ray Cyrus doing rap bits and Lil Nas X singing country bits. Then they join in a nice duo harmony. The track is kept spare and it's short, which I think actually increases its impact. I hope someone is making big book off this because it's going to see a thousand imitators in short order.
https://soundcloud.com/markknight/the-mystery-of-old-ma-clifton
Despite its title (The Mystery of Old Ma Clifton) this is not even a little a country song. This is Mark Knight with a fun tech house dance track. Normally I complain about tracks being too short; my one complaint here is that this track needs to be trimmed. There are just too many repetitions of phrases between the interesting gospel bits.
https://soundcloud.com/westwood-x/bel-air
Westwood X recommended this one to me: "Bel Air" by someone calling themselves RUMPUS. It's a pretty bouncy hip-hop dance track. It's got a fun deep-house bass undercurrent that makes this the kind of music I enjoy driving to. Not too fast, not too repetitve.
https://soundcloud.com/westwoodrecordings/dont-fight
Another find via Westwood's recommendations. The Nice Guy's "Don't Fight" is a jazzy, funky, upbeat track featuring Kali Phoenix, whose own work is often a kind of soft vocal set to big band-style orchestration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvd4ZzxUANY
This - Cosmic Cowboys & Lazarusman doing "If You Leave Tonight" - is the first track on a set list by Roy Miller that I might blog later. But I wanted to find this track and play it for you to see what you all thought. It is very spoken-word in away that reminds me a little of Soul Coughing but it's softer and more romantic and more fantastical. Listening to it feels very intense, as though the writer was struggling to get emotions out into words and the words are there but the meaning isn't - it's in what the words conjure in your head. Or in mine, at least.
