Aug 10, 2009 0
Jun 11, 2009 0
VIDEO: Grizzly Bear – All We Ask (The Black Cab Sessions)
Grizzly Bears new album Veckatimest is pretty good. Here’s a video of them performing All We Ask in the Black Cab Sessions.
The Black Cab Sessions can be found HERE. Check them out, they are fantastic and have great bands involved.
MPB
May 18, 2009 0
Romance
I found this image late last night and emailed it myself. I love it so much, I thought I’d share.
Mark
May 8, 2009 0
Firekites – “Autumn Story” Video
Great video for a great song.
Mark
Firekites AUTUMN STORY – chalk animation from Yanni Kronenberg on Vimeo.
Apr 7, 2009 0
Big Ideas (don’t get any) – Brilliant Radiohead Remix
This is, without doubt, one of the most f***ing brilliant things I have ever seen/heard. If not the most brilliant thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
The story (found here originally) goes that James Houston intended to enter Radiohead’s “Nude” remix competition, but missed the deadline. He didn’t get to enter, but has allegedly been inundated with job offers etc.
Read his account as follows;
“I graduated from the Glasgow School of Art’s graphic design course. This was my final project.
Radiohead held an online contest to remix “Nude” from their album – “In Rainbows” This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that’s played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It’s pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from “Nude” thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.
Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.
I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) “Big Ideas: Don’t get any” I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
It doesn’t sound great, as it’s not supposed to.
I missed the contest deadline, so I’m offering it here for you to enjoy.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum – Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer – Drums
HP Scanjet 3c – Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array – Act as a collection of bad speakers – Vocals & FX”
Here is the video:
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
MPB.
