Yeah, so this guy made a version of Dark side of the moon just using the audio capabilities of the NES sound chip. It sounds amazing, somehow. I've been listening to the whole thing over and over, there are some parts that are just haunting, and computer game-y at the same time. Go here to download for yourself, and here's a sample ("Great Gig In The Sky") of what I'm talking about:
sometimes I love Pitchfork's echo chamber:
"Years ago, some girl wrote in the classifieds saying she was looking for a man 'with the poetic sensitivity of Leonard Cohen and the raw power of Iggy Pop,' so Leonard tried to get me to set up a three-way with her [laughs]. He said, 'Dude, we can give her both!'"
— Iggy Pop. (via Rolling Stone)
when you announce that Jeff Magnum will be playing his first show in ten years and tickets will go on sale at noon…I do like their fail page though…
UPDATE – we got tickets! sweet! sold out in 15 minutes…
Mashup central. This opens up so many possibilities…the idea that soon anyone will be able to use instrumental part recorded by anyone anywhere is pretty exciting. I know the quality's not there yet, but this is just the first step, I don't even think this software is available, this is just a demo.
But still, wowza.
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so Sunday night I went to see some NY esoteric stuff, in John Zorn's concert space, Stone…the drummer for the old no wave band DNA rocked the laptop, some guy played clarinet and Japanese bamboo flute, another guy played glass (hitting it with mallets, rubbing fingers on rims, pouring water in — amazing) and our upstairs neighbor Alex played cello… it was surprisingly awesome, check it out…
this is pretty sweet. Merton's got skills…
also, in some kind of internet irony, because everyone kept saying that Merton sounded/looked just like Ben Folds, apparently Ben Folds heard about it and filmed his own "tribute", which is also pretty good…the "bobby" song is especially inspired…
sometimes the links move so fast, and the internet works so quickly and fierce, and I end up emailing things to myself, and then I have no idea how, where or why I came across something…
so here it is…
Reverse graffitti, making images by cleaning negative space out of dirt…pretty damn smart…short film (ad) by Doug Pray who did Scratch…
Sometimes a mash-up isn't really that good, but there's still something about it, something about the way it triggers your brain…file under cognitive dissonance…
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