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Music and about music
Sep. 19th, 2013 08:39 pmIt's been a while since I had music I wanted to post about. This is a weirdly disjointed set of links but it's what I've got.
https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/promotion_20002d7_vid_clash_doc
Google Play have a fantastic page up with a five-part documentary/interview with the members of the Clash talking about how their various albums came together. There are also links to remastered versions of the albums and singles you can buy (hey, it's a music business after all) but the documentary alone is worth your time.
I first heard The Clash in 1978. The same guy who introduced me to Devo played me a cassette that he'd gotten from someone who'd gotten it from someone who had... And it was fantastic. I was never a punk, but my world became instantly better knowing music like this existed. It's not like the band saved my life or anything (that was Yes) but hearing them expanded my sense of what music could be. From the Clash I went to Sex Pistols and Ramones and Patti Smith and more. But it started here.
http://www.vevo.com/watch/lorde
https://soundcloud.com/nickraymondg/lorde-royals-lazerdisk-remix
Speaking of starting (how's that for an awkward transition) feast your ears on a raw, beautiful, bursting with potential 16-year-old who goes by Lorde. She's got some heavy production hand on these tracks but I still like them. She apparently writes her own stuff which speaks well for the future. The style blends female vocal harmonies with snap rhythms and a vocal punch that's half torch singa and half Andrews sister doing modern pop.
And because we live in the modern electronic age, I also give you the Lazerdisk remix of her "Royals". I think the remix does a great job of capturing what she does well and giving it a different production twist. This one is definitely intended to be a dance track, which you might or might not like, but I think it works well.
http://www.hernameisbanks.com/
Banks is another new-to-me female singer with a unique style. She reminds me a fair bit of Tricky - she's intimate and breathy and you can easily feel she's singing just for you. The top track here, "Waiting Game", blends vocal+piano with deep trance electronica. Don't miss her cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," also on that page.
http://audioporncentral.com/2013/08/alpha-beta-ft-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B8-moullinex-remix.html
Boy I hope that URL works. What this is I don't even know. Alpha-Beta (https://soundcloud.com/alphabetaband) are a Russian trio of two DJ/producers and a female singer - Kate Pavlova, if Google Translate is to be believed. Here we have their track "Чайки", which Google tells me is "Seagulls," in a Moullinex remix. He does a fine job producing an upbeat dancey house track. I've got their Soundcloud page marked for further listening.
https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/promotion_20002d7_vid_clash_doc
Google Play have a fantastic page up with a five-part documentary/interview with the members of the Clash talking about how their various albums came together. There are also links to remastered versions of the albums and singles you can buy (hey, it's a music business after all) but the documentary alone is worth your time.
I first heard The Clash in 1978. The same guy who introduced me to Devo played me a cassette that he'd gotten from someone who'd gotten it from someone who had... And it was fantastic. I was never a punk, but my world became instantly better knowing music like this existed. It's not like the band saved my life or anything (that was Yes) but hearing them expanded my sense of what music could be. From the Clash I went to Sex Pistols and Ramones and Patti Smith and more. But it started here.
http://www.vevo.com/watch/lorde
https://soundcloud.com/nickraymondg/lorde-royals-lazerdisk-remix
Speaking of starting (how's that for an awkward transition) feast your ears on a raw, beautiful, bursting with potential 16-year-old who goes by Lorde. She's got some heavy production hand on these tracks but I still like them. She apparently writes her own stuff which speaks well for the future. The style blends female vocal harmonies with snap rhythms and a vocal punch that's half torch singa and half Andrews sister doing modern pop.
And because we live in the modern electronic age, I also give you the Lazerdisk remix of her "Royals". I think the remix does a great job of capturing what she does well and giving it a different production twist. This one is definitely intended to be a dance track, which you might or might not like, but I think it works well.
http://www.hernameisbanks.com/
Banks is another new-to-me female singer with a unique style. She reminds me a fair bit of Tricky - she's intimate and breathy and you can easily feel she's singing just for you. The top track here, "Waiting Game", blends vocal+piano with deep trance electronica. Don't miss her cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," also on that page.
http://audioporncentral.com/2013/08/alpha-beta-ft-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B8-moullinex-remix.html
Boy I hope that URL works. What this is I don't even know. Alpha-Beta (https://soundcloud.com/alphabetaband) are a Russian trio of two DJ/producers and a female singer - Kate Pavlova, if Google Translate is to be believed. Here we have their track "Чайки", which Google tells me is "Seagulls," in a Moullinex remix. He does a fine job producing an upbeat dancey house track. I've got their Soundcloud page marked for further listening.
