Okay, so I haven’t written anything for more than a week and, frankly, I don’t have anything to say now but, just last night I heard some bad-ass retro soul. I haven’t anything else by these guys but this tune alone just kicks all kinds of things!
The popularity of Tuvan overtone-singing has been growing for nearly two decades. You’ve probably heard it in movies and adverts. I’ve always liked it. I’ve seen Huun Huur Tuu in concert and, I have a compilation of traditional and recent stuff but, I wonder if things are going too far. It seems like Yat-kha is [...]
Now I’m truly old. I’ve lived to see punk and thrash return to the station formerly known as KCMU. I guess the kids think it’s hip to be angry again. I’m glad! I was getting completely, aardvarkly sick of the whiney, neo-paisley, post-cobain stuff that passes for college radio these days. It stopped being fun [...]
For example, I tried searching for the lyrics to Chris Knox‘s “Flaky Pastry” with no success. Damn. I really wanted to know those lyrics. The connection might be weak, but I blame the Music Industry’s paranoia about intellectual property for this!
A friend recently sent me and others a mail asking what sort of music we liked. As opposed to taking up a mail thread with my list, I decided to preserve one here for posterity. Read on:
Ziff pointed to the site of the band he plays bass in, The Moonlighters. They go for that retro, latin, swing, jazz feel and include stuff from the neo-swing revival. As an old school ska and punk fan, I agree, pop music needs a lot more horns and accordians.
It occurred to me last night, as I was playing NWN with some friends, that the background music of computer games has improved a great deal over the last 15 years. No more tinny, grating MIDI files being played on very simple sound cards. I sometimes wonder if the music of Age of Empires might [...]
My site has become a minor example of table-free, three column layout. Just yesterday I learned who created the Dr. Who theme music way back in 1963: Delia Derbyshire. Ms. Derbyshire, a scholar of music, mathematics and electronics, was one of the early pioneers of electronic music. Someone notes my complaints about Flash.
Should I stay or should I go?
I don’t know–in between work assignments and thinking about recent events for some odd reason Laurie Anderson appeared in my brain. I, being the pretentious geek that I was, listened to a lot of her stuff back in the early Eighties. I don’t know how that association works.