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?
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!
Good morning Susie Soho! It’s monday (again) and the office for filing me thesis application is closed today. So I had to revert to post this little gem of a song, “Ambling Alp” by the Brooklyn based (yes, in Brooklyn nearly everybody is a 22 y/o American Apparel dressed musical innovator/designer/artist. everybody else provides the former with drugs.) Yeasayer together with its stunning video.
After this, if you want to spoil a perfectly fine start into your week with a severe case of global bad conscience, watch the newly released Vice Guide to Travel’s “Vice Guide to Liberia”
Two posts in an hour! Es ist a new record! Aber aus gutem Grund. Mein kreativer hiphopbro Misanthrop hat sein erstes Video gerade auf die Menschheit losgelassen. Sattelt die Pferde, denn “Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof“. Der frivole und lebensbejahende Beat wurde übrigens von meinem beatbro Jim Button produziert. Da schaust her.
I’m not a very big fan of dancehall and the likes, but when I saw the artwork of Major Lazer’s debut album “Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do!” I just had to do a quick lookup. And hey, what a surprise! It’s actually the favela mad Diplo in collaboration with massive bassline housetunes producer Dave Taylor (Switch/Induceve/Solid Groove), featuring a shitload of dancehall guest MC’s on the release. Together they created Major Lazer, who “fought as a Jamaican commando and lost his arm in a secret zombie war”. The Major “fights vampires and various monsters, parties hard, and has a rocket-powered hoverboard”.
But how zombie defeating is his music? It’s comparable to a double barrel shotgun: Quite devastating, but there’s also the long reload times.
I enjoyed the very well produced beats, defenately not your standard dancehall fare. Diplo’s hollertronic approach shines through from time to time (“When you hear the bassline” e.g.) and there’s also a lot of unconventional beats like “Mary Jane” , “Bruk out”. But then there’s one (rather satirical) track worth skippable for the sake of everything that keeps you out of certain clubs in your city (“Keep it goin’ louder” – Kanye would be envious though, and the track’s end will make you puke – no, seriously, I have warned you). Reload.
But, what got me to write this post about the album is the second to last track “Baby” which (of course) features the infamous Autotune Baby Sample (god even Flying Lotus Sensei played it out on his Berlin gig this year). But behold, you won’t want to punch a baby after this one, thanks to Prince Zimboo’s ingenious vocals:
Don’ get you diapers in a bunch,
Dere di nipple for lunch.
Imagine, it’s just couple of months ago you were in my testical,
Now you are screaming and walking, great spectacle.
…
Dat breast is yours, dis breast is mine,
Don”t get out of line.
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?
