Month: November 2012
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Santastic 7 – new Christmas mashup and video
Santastic 7 – It’s a Wonderful Mash is here and it includes a mashup from yours truly, Christmaus mashing Bruce Haack’s rare festive vocoder track ‘I Like Christmas‘ and Deadmau5’s ‘Some Chords’ it’s strangely festive electro house track from yours truly…but managed to get a reference to some bah humbug in there 😉 Those who…
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Music Industry’s Never-Ending End Of Days?
Newsweek concluded their article on what they called “rock’s doldrums” by reminiscing about the “good old days” when Elvis Presley and the Beatles created excitement by providing an identifiable center to the pop music world, recording music that the various segments of the pop music audience could all share. According to Newsweek, Elvis and the…
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What if money was no object?
Love this video by Tragedy & Hope with narration from the late Alan Watts about living your life and not chasing money. I approve this message – took me a long time to realise it though….don’t make my mistake.
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Julia Holter – Gold Dust Woman
https://soundcloud.com/myblogcliche1/julia-holter-gold-dust-woman Anything Fleetwood Mac related is pretty much a shoe-in for this blog, although covers can be a sore point – so often they add so little, and lose any magic the original had in the translation. One that does add a modern sense of ghostly folktronica (?) to an already haunting FM track is…
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RC 229: Lighthouse In The Woods
Leave your landing light on, shine a light on your backyard, leave a lighthouse in the wild, I’m coming in a little blind… (Candle is from 2008, it’s one John lights to guide me in when I go round his during the week – hence the lyrics of the Patrick Watson song having a certain…
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Cult vs SALEM
In a seemingly perfect collaboration, Ian Astbury loved witch house to reached out to SALEM for a remix…this works well, love the video by Kostas Elemental too – very now. Goes to show there is life in the old witch house yet. (via Eve Massacre)