I’m seriously baffled here. Just listened to the latest Gilles Peterson’s “Cinematic Orchestra Film Soundtrack Mix” (DO check it out) and heard this familiar tune from Twin Peaks, called “Sycamore Trees”, performed by Jimmy Scott. She really has the most beautiful voice, and.. Hold it right there – she’s a “Jimmy”? The FUCK?
Turns out she really is a Jimmy.
I present: “Little” Jimmy Scott, a singer who never had puberty take the angels out of his voice. He is a-mazing. Seeing that body and that voice together just gives me the shivers.
So the old man singing with a womans voice in the reknown Twin Peaks scene is indeed the performer himself, and not yet another Lynchian mindfuck as the psychedelic scene might suggest.
Here’s a live performance of Jimmy Scott. Close your eyes – don’t you just want to fall in love with that voice?
Outside it’s raining cats and dogs, inside its raining beats (cosmogramma, fuck yeah).
But now for something a little more nerdy: If you’re still not convinced as to how awesome, slick and fast google’s (some might say, the devil of privacy’s) browser is – here are 3 little and EXTREMELY well done demonstrations:
As quite a few posts on this blog have been about Star Wars, and this used to be the littlesamurai dispenser back in the days, there is probably NOTHING more fitting than this work by prop artist Sillof:
This is so cool on so many levels that it makes my geek-glands pump hard. And it goes on! Check out his costum figures section for the awesome Steampunk Star Wars, to name only one. (image courtesy of sillof)
Basically the album is a free download , but you’re presented with a donation option, with all of the money going to the Dove House Hospice, England.
I’d say go ahead and donate at least 10 times more than the paypal cut (30 pence) for this download, it’s a really heavy release, this one. They could also have kept at least a small cut for themselves in my opinion, but hey, at least karma won’t punish them (“hi crabman”) for it.
You one of those long haired dope-beat fiends? Then you’ll like nodding your head the free collection of beats produced by St. Petersburg, Russia based Fama87. Off you go to download it, it’s worth it!
All these new methods of turning the principle of a dj set into a live performance surely can make you feel insignificant just playing out records the oldschool way. In comes Daedelus, and blows my mind with a 10 minute liveset using the monome 64 and 256 button versions. According to the man himself he hooks it up to Max/MSP using a max plugin/app called MLR to cut up samples and play back the splices on his monomes. Fucking wicked.
So, after a little research it turns out, we can all use this magic. There even used to be an iphone app around called haplome which, you guessed it, emulates the monome on the iphone. Sadly it seems it is discontinued. But keyboard/midi control is possible, so here goes
Auch wenn das hier nur als Draft aufgesetzt war, bin ich mal so frei, und poste es trotzdem, denn das Video ist sehr sehenswert/educating.
Ein komisch aussehender Producer namens Jim Pavlov baut mit Originalsamples Prodigy’s “Smack my bitch up” in Ableton nach.
Und dann als dreingabe für diesen Tontechnikerpost, gibts hier eine Klomessage, die garantiert Musikinteressierte davon abhält sich dort schick einen abzutaggen (so gesehen in der Glockenbachwerkstatt, wo es übrigens jeden dritten Freitag im Monat eine kostenlose Jazz-Jamsession gibt).
JohnBeez hat den Prototypen eines Crossfaders gebaut, der zu seiner normalen Misch-Funktion noch über einen Pitch über zwei Oktaven verfügt.
Das ist die Zukunft!
I’m seriously baffled here. Just listened to the latest Gilles Peterson’s “Cinematic Orchestra Film Soundtrack Mix” (DO check it out) and heard this familiar tune from Twin Peaks, called “Sycamore Trees”, performed by Jimmy Scott. She really has the most beautiful voice, and.. Hold it right there – she’s a “Jimmy”? The FUCK?
