Music for the week
Jul. 21st, 2011 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexI'm off tomorrow so I want to see how many music tabs I can close out today....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_BRv9wGf5pk
This is an old song - Snap! doing "The Power" - with an interesting history, which is laid out in interesting detail in the Wikipedia page. It holds up well despite its age and is a fun re-watch.
http://www.4shared.com/audio/vVmVa92o/Sarah_Connor-_Under_my_Skin.html
I wish I could find an official video for this one. Unfortunately the most popular video on YouTube is this track over an Asian male pop group. It's still Connor's song, "Under My Skin", but it was sold separately for English-language and Asian recording. There's a non-English recording of this, which I expect goes with that video but someone mashed up the two and it makes my teeth ache to watch. Connor's vocals are rich and sweaty and even though I can detect some of the places where they autotuned her I still think she's head-and-shoulders above most of the pop divas. Yes, I do have a thing for Motown/soul-influenced sexy music - does this surprise anyone?
http://soundcloud.com/villamakesmusic/adele-rolling-in-the-deep-villa-remix
http://www.myspace.com/villanese
Speaking of current pop divas, Adele continues to impress me. I've been trying to use her as an example to explain to my kids what a good voice sounds like (and why Katy Perry and Ke$ha and their ilk are just not this good). Like Connor, there are definite deep soul and R&B influences there. I picked this one off the Villa page as a real stand-out. The other Villa mixes are fun, thumpy, dance-club fodder. I recommend just tossing all the mixes into the MySpace player and letting them spin. They start with good material and come out with good results.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/07/illegal-sunday-frail-limb-purity-britney-spears-v-the-glitch-mob.html
I really want to like this track. I do. I think Britney is maturing into a decent singer and I think Frail Limb Purity have real flashes of brilliance in mixing. But unfortunately what this mix shows is that if you mix Britney with a Glitch Mob track, you get a good track that is only a little bit worse than a pure Glitch Mob track. I'm sure there will be mixes of "We Can Make the World Stop" that I will prefer listening to. This one is just not quite there.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/07/illegal-sunday-divide-kreate-blue-beat.html
It's been a while since I put on a mash that made me sit upright and say "Oh no, you did NOT just do that." Oh yes, he did. Divide & Kreate (http://www.divideandkreate.com/) put Michael Jackson's classic "Beat it" up against New Order's equally classic "Blue Monday" and then sped the whole thing up to modern dance BPM. I can't decide whether to laugh or be appalled, which is probably the intended effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_BRv9wGf5pk
This is an old song - Snap! doing "The Power" - with an interesting history, which is laid out in interesting detail in the Wikipedia page. It holds up well despite its age and is a fun re-watch.
http://www.4shared.com/audio/vVmVa92o/Sarah_Connor-_Under_my_Skin.html
I wish I could find an official video for this one. Unfortunately the most popular video on YouTube is this track over an Asian male pop group. It's still Connor's song, "Under My Skin", but it was sold separately for English-language and Asian recording. There's a non-English recording of this, which I expect goes with that video but someone mashed up the two and it makes my teeth ache to watch. Connor's vocals are rich and sweaty and even though I can detect some of the places where they autotuned her I still think she's head-and-shoulders above most of the pop divas. Yes, I do have a thing for Motown/soul-influenced sexy music - does this surprise anyone?
http://soundcloud.com/villamakesmusic/adele-rolling-in-the-deep-villa-remix
http://www.myspace.com/villanese
Speaking of current pop divas, Adele continues to impress me. I've been trying to use her as an example to explain to my kids what a good voice sounds like (and why Katy Perry and Ke$ha and their ilk are just not this good). Like Connor, there are definite deep soul and R&B influences there. I picked this one off the Villa page as a real stand-out. The other Villa mixes are fun, thumpy, dance-club fodder. I recommend just tossing all the mixes into the MySpace player and letting them spin. They start with good material and come out with good results.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/07/illegal-sunday-frail-limb-purity-britney-spears-v-the-glitch-mob.html
I really want to like this track. I do. I think Britney is maturing into a decent singer and I think Frail Limb Purity have real flashes of brilliance in mixing. But unfortunately what this mix shows is that if you mix Britney with a Glitch Mob track, you get a good track that is only a little bit worse than a pure Glitch Mob track. I'm sure there will be mixes of "We Can Make the World Stop" that I will prefer listening to. This one is just not quite there.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/07/illegal-sunday-divide-kreate-blue-beat.html
It's been a while since I put on a mash that made me sit upright and say "Oh no, you did NOT just do that." Oh yes, he did. Divide & Kreate (http://www.divideandkreate.com/) put Michael Jackson's classic "Beat it" up against New Order's equally classic "Blue Monday" and then sped the whole thing up to modern dance BPM. I can't decide whether to laugh or be appalled, which is probably the intended effect.
