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Beasty Boys trailer has funny people

nick — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:55:44 +0000

The trailer for the upcoming 30-minute long Fight for your Right Revisited:

I like the way you told him not to talk anymore. I thought that was really good.

James Murphy on taste and art

nick — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:03:53 +0000

In honor of LCD Soundsystem’s final show, m ss ng p eces has posted an edited version of an interview they shot with James Murphy in 2006 – around the time that online music sales and taste engines (“if you like x, then check out y”) supplanted the music store experience.

m ss ng Murphy from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

from the video description:

To assist in the pangs of LCD withdrawal we watched an interview we shot with James Murphy back in the summer of 2006. It was a 30 minute interview which we’ve cut into 9 minutes for your viewing pleasure. Murphy shares his thoughts on musical discovery, the future of taste, artistic value in the face of technology and what he did with our plot device, something.

I ain’t gonna pee-pee my bed tonight

nick — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:29:05 +0000

sing it, brother (and cultish family with disturbing father/god figure)!

Steve Martin’s “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs”

nick — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:41:35 +0000

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers perform the entire atheist hymnal on Austin City Limits.

Clever audio element from Inception

nick — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:41:15 +0000

A nice musical detail from the film, Inception.

If you’ve seen the movie, you know that a grainy recording of Edith Piaf singing “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” is used as a cue for the dreamers. You also know that while dreaming, time slows down.

With that in mind, it turns out that the throbbing musical sting we hear throughout the movie is that original piece of music… slowed down.

Idling tractor as percussion for Sweet Georgia Brown

nick — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:41:58 +0000

Go, tractor, go!

From the guitarist:

I am the guitar player, my name is Olle Hemmingson and i live in Sweden. There has been some asking about my guitar, it is a Gibson Les Paul Signature, i bought it used around 1975 and it’s the best guitar I ever had. The bridge is for adjusting the strings in all ways and the strings are locked in the top. There is a movie with “Sweet Georgia Brown” and a one with “Lover come back to me” to[o]. I did not send the movies to YouTube, but it’s fun that people seems to like it.

(via laughing squid)

Elvis jams with Jimmy Page

nick — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:41:09 +0000

BBC Radio 2 shows off some editing skills with some rare footage of a pretty sweet lineup (save Elvis).

The most expensive music in the world

nick — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:55:58 +0000

German experimental composer Johannes Kreidler took data from plummeting stock values, death tolls in Iraq and other horribly depressing charts, plugged them into Microsoft’s song composition software, Songsmith, and came up with some oddly sanguine music.

enjoy your Friday.