Building steam from a grain of salt.
September 15, 2005 8:09 PM   Subscribe

DJ Shadow likes high school bands.
High school bands like DJ Shadow. (2nd link requires Windows Media Player, via Soul Sides)
posted by myopicman (20 comments total)
 
Fuckin' awesome. Thanks.
posted by SweetJesus at 8:11 PM on September 15, 2005


2nd link is 65Mb!

here is a cached version.
posted by bonaldi at 8:27 PM on September 15, 2005


Crikey! Good catch, bonaldi. I got sloppy with all the details and forgot to warn those on dialup.
posted by myopicman at 8:37 PM on September 15, 2005


Wow. I can only wonder what these kids' parents thought of the whole thing... I love how it's all drums, piano and vibes. Just like Tortoise.
posted by hamfisted at 8:39 PM on September 15, 2005


It's interesting. A bit talking dog, especially during the first drum break in Building, where you can't quite work out if it's being fluffed, or if the drummer's going as fast as humans can. hamfisted has it though: what did the audience think? Ha.

In a similar vein, Juno did a live version of High Noon, which I'd say is worth checking out, but, eh, it just sounds like High Noon :) Alarm Will Sound also did an entire album of Aphex Twin covers. Worth a listen.
posted by bonaldi at 8:47 PM on September 15, 2005


Ahh. First thought was Alarm Will Sound. Even cooler with DJ Shadow is that they're performing already recorded performances that were mixed together -- it's metametamusic. Symphony orchestra here we come. (Or are we simply seeing the down side of the Switched on Bach revolution?).
posted by VulcanMike at 10:04 PM on September 15, 2005


This is cool. Thanks.
posted by dazed_one at 10:26 PM on September 15, 2005


Sweet!
posted by grouse at 1:41 AM on September 16, 2005


Brilliant. Thanks!!!
posted by catchmurray at 2:41 AM on September 16, 2005


Made me smile. Really is a shame that the drummer is such a disaster, though.
posted by rxrfrx at 4:53 AM on September 16, 2005


They were pretty good!
posted by Ugandan Discussions at 5:22 AM on September 16, 2005


Really interesting idea. I agree with rxrfrx that it's too bad they didn't have better drummers. If they had done this with my high school band's percussion crew (Jenks, OK), it would've totally rocked, or better yet, the band from Booker T's drumline totally kicked ass.
posted by password at 5:55 AM on September 16, 2005


The Bad Plus do a live instrumentation cover of Aphex that is pretty good.
posted by shoepal at 8:16 AM on September 16, 2005


Oh, and awesome post. Thanks, myopicman. Thanks, bonaldi for the link, too.
posted by shoepal at 8:19 AM on September 16, 2005


Steaming Through the '80s got me through the '90s.
posted by mrgrimm at 8:35 AM on September 16, 2005


Great post.
posted by cusack at 8:49 AM on September 16, 2005


The default black pants/white shirt performance outfit has never seemed less appropriate.
posted by mmcg at 9:18 AM on September 16, 2005


Great stuff. The arrangement of the main vibe part of "Building Steam" seems a bit off to me though - the last note in particular. But I often find, especially in sampled music, that I hear little things like that wrong. So maybe it's me that's off, even though if that's so, I've liked it better hearing it the "wrong" way for the past nine years.

Perception is a crazy thing.
posted by thirdparty at 9:37 AM on September 16, 2005


A bit more on the Alarm Will Sound Aphex Twin live mix....

...Here
posted by joelf at 11:16 AM on September 16, 2005


Here's a direct WMV download, courtesy of my boneheaded double post.
posted by Nelson at 3:16 AM on September 22, 2005


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