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Back to the Roots

Getting back to the roots of many industrial music, I recently, after hearing a list of the singles of Depeche mode from my mom that she played on this thing called a CD (what is this device?), I quickly started to wander into the discography, and also found they did two remix albums. A few of my favs were on it, Mike Shanoda from Linkin Park, Goldfrapp, two of the members of Miike Snow, and more. This song reflects an instrumental aspect of the band, whcih also sounds a lot like the early days of British band The Prodigy. I love going bakc through underground forms of music, although Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence were certainly popular in the 80s. Also, the thumbnail is funny.

Zatox - Opera (Full) [HD]

Epic song is epic.

Heads Up.

This blog may be gettign a cool thing in the future:
Transcript of an interview with the band Goldfish.

Yeah, you read that correctly. I really love this band. If you haven't heard of them, they are a duo from South Africa, although sometimes a trio. They make really great music, Jazz, Electronica, Swing, House. So many things. A truly original band that i wish was more popular. I was thinking about what sort of questions I would like to ask them, from things like How did you get into Music, to things like what equipment do they use. I'd love some thoughts. I was also hoping I'd get a chance to get the blog link up on there website.

DUBSTEP SAMPLES CONTEST

http://www.looperman.com/blog/detail/45/win-a-dubstep-super-producer-combo-pack-3gb-of-dubstep-loops

DO WANT.

Hans Zimmer - Time (Karanda Remix)

Damn. I was going through my YouTube subscriptions, and came across this one. This is a trance remix of one of my favorite classical/soundtrack songs ever. The song feels like the original, but could easily be played in a club. Trance is a beautiful metamorphosis of electronic music, and certainly is one of the best genres ever. Club music is good, but nothing compares to the tear-jerking synths of trance.

Public Libraries

I have always thought of our public institutions to be a hallmark of society. Free, open, and not out for a profit. Just the way I like them. A lot of the libraries in Massachusetts were founded as part of the education reform in the mid 1800s.

Libraries are beneficial factors to Society. You need a book? Go check it out for FREE at your local library. Oh, and your taxes may go up a slight bit to pay for running the place. Boohoo.

Colored Bacon

So I got this bacon day calendar for my birthday from an old friend, and I finally have a source for bacon related things on this blog! So here we go:

A man called Neil Caldwell has invented coloured bacon! Not a GMO thing, genuinely artificial coloured bacon that is edible. I want it so much. SO MUCH. If anyone gets some, let me know. So the awesomeness can happen. Here are some pictures:

And another:

Banksy when it comes to advertising.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

-Banksy, street artist

Flux Pavilion feat. Example - Daydreamer OUT NOW!

Flux Pavillion has always been a great dusbtep producer. His sounds are heavy, but original. He is original, but not outrageous and maintains his dubstep roots. His music is always a banger. Example is a rapper from Britain, (flux is also English) who lends his vocals nicely. His songs are often remixed by dubstep artists, its nice to him beating them to the punch. This song is available tomorrow in the US.

CISPA: A Prehistoric Bill

This is funny. The video is a good thing. CISPA is better than SOPA. Not all evil.

Kilimanjaro - Dont Wait (Sina. Remix)

This is another one of those songs that makes me happy. Slow, soothing, relaxing. The simplicity of ths is wonderful. The attack on electronic music has missed this entire section of music entirely. Enjoy!

News.

You know, the state of the media in this country is sad. I think Jon Stewart is more reliable than some new reporters. I feel like he is a trusted national figure. I don't feel that way with real news reporters.

Smooth Music

I listen to a lto fo hard music. Dubstep, Hardstyle, Electro, but I lov the minalistic stuff and the smooth chillstep and relaxing things. So when I found this song by module module, called, an interlude, I instantly thought it shuld be shared here. Such a great song. Epic, smooth, tear jerking, and relaxing.

FIXYN - You Don't Know Fiction

This song makes me happy. And this week, I need to be happy.

TeeSHirts

I got a Hammer and Sickle shirt with money I got for Newbury Comics. Great store. I found it ironic that i purchased something from a private company for a communist thing.

Reason #13 why cities are better

Clubs. Many clubs. Dubstep clubs. House clubs. Popualr clubs. Underground clubs. More musical variety on the radio. More MUSIC.

The Attack on Producing, and a comment on Modern Pop

Music. I mean the attack on Producing Music. Electronically, specifically. The recent rise of Skrillex into the corner of maybe the mainstream, has caused a lot of the internet to turn against the people who use, ableton, protools, logic, reason, FL Studio. Why? Because the computer is not an instrument of music they say. But it still requires you be able to read music, not any less than other genres. You need to be able to play a keyboard most often, and the DJ Set is often only for mixing and playing live shows. They like to criticize producers/djs for not be artistic.

I say that we are. It takes skill to be able to make good music. I don't see why The Shins should be considered musicians and for Netsky not to be. Just becuase one is Indie Rock and the other is Drum and Bass doesn't make the other untalented. So you don't like his music. Ok, don't listen to it. Lets not forget who the actual attacker on music is, Pop. While it contains all the properties of music, and therefore is technically music, it has no originality. No ideas, no purpose. The people who make it where already rich because they were born into it. Major Record Companies ruin artists. And this isn't an old argument. Artists become popular, but then they change. Their older fans criticize them for losing their originality, neutral and new fans say they need to make money. But then you forget, that they got popular doing one thing. I am fine with artists branching out. Pendulum has a second name, Knife Party, which makes electro and dubstep, in the style close to Skeptics and Skrillex. Thats fine. Pendulum is one genre, Knfie Party another. Calvin Harris makes disco-pop dance music. I like his style, he is original, but his newer single, a song with Ne-Yo, reminds me of what happened to David Guetta. Now he changed his style to be popular. And now his is the most popular DJ in the world. (Don't try to dispute this, a talk show talked about it).

But the very same people who claim to hate pop music attack the less mainstream electronic genres, and group them together with Nicki Mina J or whatever her name is. The electronic people hate pop just as much as the Indie People. Sort of how the gays don't want twilight any more than heterosexual people. By the way, can we please stop with the whole "STILL not as gay as twilight" meme? Despite the fact that Lil Wayne still is going up the charts. Artists like Tiësto, who in the past did phenomenal trance, has moved into more house, and has done collabs with Three 6 Mafia. We shouldn't push these artists to this point. The lack of creativity in the Modern Pop music realm is saddening. So instead of the underground genres attacking each other, they need to agree to disagree, or even try each other, you might find you actually like Datsik. Or you may find you actually like Neutral Milk Hotel, or Cults. Or Passion Pit. Don't say dubstep is like a dial up modem, although I do know a song that samples one. Just because the melody isn't lead by a soprano bitchy-assed pop singer, doesn't make it not music, nor does it's lack of acoustic guitar. It makes it different. An instrument is any device, object, or sound used for the production of musical sounds. A computer counts. Anything can be an instrument, an instruments come to be instruments over time, or through necessity, from Wikipedia: it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument.

So go out there and enjoy or make music. Be original, draw inspiration form others, but don't outright copy!

Reason #12 of why cities are better

Cities has mroe foreigners, so more exchange of culture occurs, which also means information, so cities have a more complex view and understanding of the world.