Music Thread

Toner Cartridge - Trail Mix
Forethought - Platypus Face
Severe Dystopia - Room filled with the letter K
Meaningless Life - Atheistic
Martini Cough - Saphire

 

anyone who likes instrumental acoustic guitar play.. check this duo out from Mexico.

http://soundcheck.walmart.com/rodrigoygabriela.html

Rodrigo Y Gabriela

 

Boolean Cheese - Mumbai
Doppleganger - Spad
Ribbon Cake - Growl Softly so Mum Can Hear
Sidestrake - Kitted Body

 

Black Sabbath
AC/DC
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
Ozzy Osbourne
Jimi Hendrix

Those bands/ vocalists are true hard rock builders, especially Black Sabbath (only with Ozzy)

 

Sonic Youth: simply the most clever, abusive and unconventional approach to guitars for almost 20 years between the 80s and the 90s.
Some good TV performances
Bull in the Heather
Sunday (excuse the French introduction... ¬¬)
100%

Mogwai: I really quite like instrumental music like post rock.
Christmas Steps
Helicon #1
Friend of the Night
Hunted by a Freak

Radiohead: fantastic songwriting, really interesting arrangements. OK Computer is still my favourite all time record.
Some live stuff from them too:
Exit Music
The Bends
Idioteque
Where I End and You Begin

Other bands/artists I really like are Björk, Pavement, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, the Cure, R.E.M., Slint, Nirvana, the Smiths, Múm, Sigur Rós, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, the Future Sound of London, Aphex Twin (ambient stuff), Arctic Monkeys, U2, Police, Joy Division, Low, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the Knife, Kent, the Cardigans, Jens Lekman, Afterhours, Death Cab for Cuties

 

So many bands out there that I like, but here are some of the main ones that really make me wish I was a musician.

Pat Metheny
Art Blakey
Tangerine Dream
The Police
Les Claypool/Primus
Mr. Bungle
Modest Mouse
Pavement
Built To Spill
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Broken Social Scene
Death Cab For Cutie
Ween
Jets To Brazil
Aphex Twin
Orbital
Cibo Matto
Sublime
David Bowie
The Smiths

 

right so you should all register on last.fm and we should make a VFDC group, eh?

 

Franz have you read the 33 1/3rd book about Daydream Nation?

 

http://www.last.fm/group/Virtuafighter.com

made it

join up!

 

I'm on there, but haven't used LastFM for awhile now. May have to start using it more again.

That's a good idea though.

 

dunno if anybody is into scratch dj/turntable music but i thought i'd post up some stuff i think is nice. think its better to see them doing it to appreciate it more.

key artists to look for

gunkhole
dstyles
ricci rucker
toadstyle
4onefunk
qbert
mike boo

this ain't no wiki fiki zigga zigga mcdonalds commercial stuff.

straight raw cuts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFyKni6jNPk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us_eSvqOGSU&feature=related

vestax controller 1 one man band styles (i'd say this is a good explanation on how you can make music with scratching)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDSshFJiqGs&feature=related

looping and layering on regular turntable (first 2 minutes or so)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze6yCgi1N-g

4 man band live cutting (one on drums, hi hat, chorus, and solo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcBuD2BmMJA

i also like it when girls do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2RSjK4cNtQ&feature=related

and kids too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2josUqMTUmE

alot will argue that this isn't music but it is to my ears.

 

No... Is it interesting? How about last.fm? Is it the one that just gives you stats of the music you listen to? In that case, I think it doesn't work with foobar, which I use...

 

Anybody got to listen to the NEW Wu Tang Clan, Sean Price(Master P), Beanie Seagel and GhostFace album? If your a Hip-Hop head ya need to Downl*** I mean, "Buy" them joints.

 

Wu Tang's '8 Diagrams' is a very good album (at least to me). I listen to it everyday. I don't know about the others you listed. Haven't listened to those yet.

 

The Sean Price album is FREAKING BANANAS! He even uses the beat from the Ironman album(Ghostface) "Fish" SEAN P! That Beanie joint is tight. 001, good looking out on those links, I spin records myself. I don't scratch and do handstands like most of this guys, but I respect and love the culture to the fullest. I DJ alot of World music and Underground Hip-Hop from around the world. I occasionally play 80's new wave and 70' soul....I play everything. One night you may hear something from FELA Kuti and the next might even be something out of the "Crow" movie soundtrack.

 

1. It works with Foobar. I use Foobar too.

2. The stat tracking feature is the tip of the iceberg. Please look at the site. It's very interesting.

I started reading the 33 1/3rd about Daydream Nation. The guy seems to think the album is somehow "dangerous" and "scary" and that listening to it is a life-changing experience. That's a bunch of horseshit. Rock music is like a step up from videogame BGM. Sonic Youth might have an artsy bent but they aren't classical composers, jazz musicians, or serious songwriters like Dylan, Zappa, or Bowie, so my respect from them is going to be limited from the get go. I love the band and all, but it's not "high art" music. It's just an entertaining listen. They make cool sounds. That's about it. I thought his argument were a load of pretentious wank, but I'm assuming the biographical aspects are going to make it worth reading.

 

Actually, Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo used to work with Glenn Branca (from whom they got their guitar sound), who is in fact a classical composer, on classically orchestrated (although non-traditional) compositions.

 

Cereal Box Tab - Wireless Hack
Primary Election - Seven Pound Binder
Foam Coaster - Swill
Dust Off - Gnarly Karbunkle

 

yeah they also sucked off john cage

they are punk rockers who learned to solder, nothing more

 

New Magnetic Fields album in '08, that's all I'm waiting for this year.