Tag: Classical music
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Pachelbel pwns the world
When comes to Pachelbel’s Canon in D Minor it’s easier to say which songs WEREN’T influenced by it…Streets of London, Let It Be, Go West, I Should Be So Lucky (which I think rips another classical piece too), Don’t Look Back In Anger, Puff The Magic Dragon, No Woman No Cry, Men At Work –…
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Final Mashups – DJNoNo – Ballroom album
Planned 10 years ago, the Ballroom EP (now album) has been a long time coming…two of the tracks were released (here in a remastered or better quality form) but the rest laid in the Unfinished folder. Mixing ballroom music – big band, jazz, bossa nova, exotica, swing, easy listening and classical pops – with hip…
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Nicolas Jaar
No connection between image and music, except they probably go well together. Recently got into Nicolas Jaar via his excellent Fight (Nymphs IV) which is now out on R&S via JoolsMF, but then found out his other music is similarly a mix of Four Tet, Holly Herndon, Jon Hopkins and even maybe some Cristobal Tapia…
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Mahler’s Symphony for 12 Spectrums
In 1982 the ZX Spectrum BASIC Manual had a chapter on the BEEP command* and set this challenge: Rewrite the Mahler program so that it uses FOR loops to repeat the bars. Program the computer so that it plays not only the funeral march, but also the rest of Mahler’s first symphony. Now 33 years…
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Penda’s Fen and Owl Service
On 21 March 1974 Penda’s Fen was Play for Today on the BBC, this strange tale of teenage homosexuality, Elgar and the Dream of Gerontius, the Midlands, ecology, the old and new gods, Britain and the last pagan king, Penda (oddly the image above does NOT appear in the film, only in shadow, although the…