Sound and Fury

Mark and Sara (so far) geeking out about music.

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"Synthetes" - Mr Beatnick (from Jamie xx's Essential Mix)

Fabulous.

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Patterns & Process by Mark Weaver on designers.mx

Don't get me wrong, I like Cameron Moll's Film Sessions (one and two) a lot, but I wish I could download/save "Patterns & Process" like whoa. It's wonderful.

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"Lights (Bassnectar Remix)" - Ellie Goulding

I kept waiting for the beat to drop in. And then it did. And it was like whoa. I thought for sure it'd be fast and club-ish, but not, it's slow, driving, and house-y. Damn.

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Machinedrum's "Room(s)" feels like the sunny summer afternoon to the dark and stormy night of Burial's "Untrue". The clipped vocal samples looped ad infinitum, layers and layers of beats, each track its own soundscape. Digging the hell out of it.

(via iso50)

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"Midnight City" - M83 (via stereogum)

…whoa. I'm not sure what I expected before I hit play, even a few seconds into the track, but this is wonderful. Love the '80s tv theme horns at the end.

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"You Can Be the One (Live)" - Late Night Alumni

Wonderful.

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What a fab way to start the week, new WWPJ and tour dates!

Can songs have prologues? I'm voting yes. Instrumental prologues, interludes, and epilogues are found in so many of WWPJ's songs and it's (just) one of the things they do so so well. The opening 2 minutes in "Act on Impulse" may well be my favorite 2 minutes of all their work.

(Okay, second to "Roll Up Your Sleeves".)

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Florrie - I Took A Little Something

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So… this is pretty fabulous.

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Watch Florrie being her gorgeous, talented and dressed in Dolce & Gabbana self in this Justin Wu-directed video for I Took A Little Something, taken from her recent Experiments EP. (via)

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Cymbal, 1,000 frames per second. !!

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reel-to-reel beat matching (via kottke)

Imogen Heap's musical/cultural ancestry… (:

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"Adolescents" - Incubus

You know what I like about Incubus? I will tell you: they evolve. "Adolescents" (btw: hee) has the characteristic Incubus sound, but it still sounds new. Fabulous.

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"Tony Fatti", White Denim

It's a little bouncy and summery and I like it. (:

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Apparat "Ash/Black Veil" (via John)

As a result, I think, of the number of movies and shows I watch "Ash/Black Veil" sounds to me like an establishing scene waiting to happen. Countryside or city landscape flashing past our protagonist…

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Fairly perfect backings tracks to the din of a coffee shop. ♥

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"Spirits", Jamie Woon

Zoë Keating and Imogen Heap are the first musicians I ever saw use looping at a live show. At the same live show, no less. Frankly, most performers have the chops to make it work, but they do. So, too, does Jamie Woon.

And while we're at it, check out this sy.ic remix of "Spirits"; lovely.

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This business with slowing music down by an order of magnitude will surely be tired at some point, but right now, it's pretty rad. Today's entry: the Jurassic Park theme slowed down by 1000%. (Hear the original.) I dig it.