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Different sorts of music
Jan. 4th, 2011 12:00 pmThis one is a set of four things different from the usual modern dance/electronica I tend to blog about most often.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Dirty_Vegas/track/Electric_Love_Runaway_Remix
If you remember Dirty Vegas (http://myspace.com/dirtyvegas) at all you probably remember them from a track called "Days Go By" from about eight years ago. The song was used in a TV commercial and won a Grammy in 2003. The video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4427678202491591769#) presented a haunting and sad wrapper for the tune. Near as I can tell the group vanished after that. They broke up in 2005 and are back now. This tune, "Electric Love" retains some of the haunted and moody electronic feel that made them famous but with a more subdued and ambient vibe.
http://audioporncentral.com/2010/12/jamie-woon-blue-truth.html
Speaking of moody, Jamie Woon (http://www.jamiewoon.com/) had a smash with his Night Air. This follow-up doesn't reach that level but still gives you enough dub bass to feel the slow tempos thrumming through your bones. I didn't like this one as much on first go, but that was probably because I was comparing it too much to Night Air. Taken on its own, it's not a bad track, even if it gets a bit ponderous at times.
http://vimeo.com/17799236
There was a time when rock and roll was four guys who wore suits, and Edwyn Collins (http://www.edwyncollins.com/) gives us an homage to those times with his "Do It Again" which features not only Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand, but that old guy on the drums? That's Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols! This is a tune that could almost have been lifted directly from the late 50s or early 60s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0PWukxRV8U
I got this one from, of all places, the BBC. They had an interview with Israeli singer Idan Raichel, of the eponymous Idan Raichel Project (http://www.idanraichelproject.com/en). A moody dreadlocked youngster on the surface, his interview went into depth on how he's attempting to blend the various musical influences that he has grown up with - Western classical to Israeli traditional to a massive selection of African influences from places like Ghana and Senegal and Tanzania and of course the Arabic music of Israel's neighbors. The project includes people from many of these communities and their songwriting is a collaboration that would make the U.N. proud. There are a lot of related videos on the YouTube page and if you like this one you can get a good sample of their sounds, though you either need to speak Hebrew or trust the translations to get the lyrics.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Dirty_Vegas/track/Electric_Love_Runaway_Remix
If you remember Dirty Vegas (http://myspace.com/dirtyvegas) at all you probably remember them from a track called "Days Go By" from about eight years ago. The song was used in a TV commercial and won a Grammy in 2003. The video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4427678202491591769#) presented a haunting and sad wrapper for the tune. Near as I can tell the group vanished after that. They broke up in 2005 and are back now. This tune, "Electric Love" retains some of the haunted and moody electronic feel that made them famous but with a more subdued and ambient vibe.
http://audioporncentral.com/2010/12/jamie-woon-blue-truth.html
Speaking of moody, Jamie Woon (http://www.jamiewoon.com/) had a smash with his Night Air. This follow-up doesn't reach that level but still gives you enough dub bass to feel the slow tempos thrumming through your bones. I didn't like this one as much on first go, but that was probably because I was comparing it too much to Night Air. Taken on its own, it's not a bad track, even if it gets a bit ponderous at times.
http://vimeo.com/17799236
There was a time when rock and roll was four guys who wore suits, and Edwyn Collins (http://www.edwyncollins.com/) gives us an homage to those times with his "Do It Again" which features not only Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand, but that old guy on the drums? That's Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols! This is a tune that could almost have been lifted directly from the late 50s or early 60s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0PWukxRV8U
I got this one from, of all places, the BBC. They had an interview with Israeli singer Idan Raichel, of the eponymous Idan Raichel Project (http://www.idanraichelproject.com/en). A moody dreadlocked youngster on the surface, his interview went into depth on how he's attempting to blend the various musical influences that he has grown up with - Western classical to Israeli traditional to a massive selection of African influences from places like Ghana and Senegal and Tanzania and of course the Arabic music of Israel's neighbors. The project includes people from many of these communities and their songwriting is a collaboration that would make the U.N. proud. There are a lot of related videos on the YouTube page and if you like this one you can get a good sample of their sounds, though you either need to speak Hebrew or trust the translations to get the lyrics.
