March 2009

Weekly mp3 #50: Plat - Aftur

Submitted by jet jaguar on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 12:10
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Another one from BetterPropaganda.

Low-key electronic beats are laced with scrapey, dry guitar sounds. The track bips and bobs about. No vox. More guitars. Feels like something might be lurking around the corner or the whole thing might explode, but, nah, it just cruises along.

The Craziest Web Design I've Seen

Submitted by jet jaguar on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 12:11
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OK, 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 has been a consistently crazy website for a long while, but it's in an obvious way an art site. This is what appears to be a "normal" shop website, for a bridal and formal wear.

Yvette's Bridal Formal

Be warned if you have Quicktime there are bagpipes that you can't turn off, and basically crazy music on every page you dare to click on.

Weekly mp3 #49: Stephen Vitiello and Pauline Oliveros - Minutes after Frogs

Submitted by jet jaguar on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 12:10
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This track is part of a massive repository of free music called Tu M'P3.

Initial crackles say this is going to be some bog-standard, impenetrable microsound / glitch mallarky. Then the accordion kicks in. Drawn out notes pass over the electronic textures and quietly develop. Towards the end what sounds like some deliberately lo-fi shuffling and microphone ambience builds up and then it's all done. Very simple arrangement for an electronic piece, but really good.

Weekly mp3 #48: Amplifier Machine - Her Mouth Is An Outlaw

Submitted by jet jaguar on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 12:10
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Last one from the local CDs I picked up while in Melbourne. Pretentious, no-fun review site The Silent Ballet have put this track on one of their mixes. Um, but don't let that put you off. :p

Youtube clips diced into seamless tunes

Submitted by jet jaguar on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 13:43
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4]

So this guy Kutiman takes makes really seamless sounding songs out of snippets of Youtube audio and video. The videos are just edits of the original clips, so help to expose which bits come from separate clips. He provides an explanatory vid and another with a full list of credits, which is a good touch, I reckon.

ThruYOU

Weekly mp3 #47: ii - Oho

Submitted by jet jaguar on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 12:10
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Carrying on my theme of music I picked up in Melbourne, this is one you can download from XLR8R magazine's site.

Low rattling noises are dwarfed by a loop of what could be guitar or violin or both, before big, live-sounding drums take centre stage and bell melodies and bits come in. Bass guitar starts chugging along before you know it. It's something like Tortoise before they got too huge (soundwise, not popularity). It's a good track, but I think one of the less distinctive on the album.

Weekly mp3 #46: Francis Plagne - Wings 6ft Leather Briefcase

Submitted by jet jaguar on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 12:10
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Another Melburnian, this one with a free MP3 sitting on the Mistletone record label site.

Ramshackle lo-fi pop song based around seemingly random strings of lyrics such as the title (and opening line). He reminds me of Jon Brion (he of Eternal Sunshine soundtrack / Kanye West co-production fame), but less "properly" produced. Beatles-y piano bits, multi-tracked backing vox, acoustic guitar, but not an obvious retro throwback.