“When I was doing my Post-Doc at UCL I used to go to the British Museum to relax, and work in the beautiful library there, so I chose the space for the mix. I wanted to capture the ambient atmosphere in the central courtyard, so I did some binaural recording to include in the mix. I also wanted to make the mix something of an exploration through history and ideas in line with the contents of the museum, so I brought in lots of disparate music spanning the centuries and continents. I also mixed it in a way to be like a journey though the museum, turning corners and regularly coming across something totally different and unexpected, with each track being like a different exhibit. Hence the name of the mix, in that, each piece of music almost has a visual content.” --
Max Cooper & The British Museum [more inside]
posted by empath
on Apr 21, 2013 -
11 comments
It's December so it must be time to list the best songs of the year.
Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs and
Top 50 Albums,
MTV's Top 10 Songs of 2011,
Billboard's 20 Best Singles,
Spin's 20 Best Songs and
Top 50 Albums,
AARP's Top 10 Albums For Grown Ups,
The A/V Club's Best Music of 2011, Rolling Stone's
50 Best Singles and
50 Best Albums,
NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs of 2011,
BET's 100 Best Songs of 2011,
NME's Best Albums of 2011,
MixMag's Tunes of The Year, Metacritic's Top 10 Albums of 2011,
Pop Matters 75 Best Albums,
Songs and
more.
[more inside]
posted by empath
on Dec 17, 2011 -
154 comments
"
Trance music" is not a new phenomenon. The ability for music to drive dancers into ecstatic frenzies has been known at least since
Euripides.
The Shakers got their name from the ecstatic behavior they exhibited when dancing to their
simple, repetitive hymns.
Voodoo rituals are built around
complex, trance-inducing rhythms. It was well known that trance-dancing can produce ecstastic states, but until the later part of the 20th century, and the invention of the 'extended dance remix', it was rare for commercial music to reach for it.
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posted by empath
on Feb 1, 2010 -
86 comments
iNudge Is a software music toy that lets you create and share short snippets of music.
posted by empath
on Sep 25, 2009 -
21 comments
The Top 10 Samples in Hip-Hop History. -- Well, not really the 'Top 10', but it's 10 samples and loops from hip-hop history, brought to you by a somewhat goofy bedroom DJ. He followed it up with 14 more sets of 10 --
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15.
(List of tracks discussed in each part in the youtube descriptions.)
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posted by empath
on Nov 30, 2008 -
40 comments
The bastard offspring of
New Age,
Techno,
Industrial and
Acid House,
trance is one of the most
popular and most
maligned musical genres of the 21st century.
Trance can be
bombastic or
delicate,
psychedelic or
rock and roll,
spacey or
deep,
euphoric or
dark,
commercial or
underground,
lush or
funky,
melodic or
monotone,
hard or
laid back.
You can try making some yourself with this
toy, or go in depth with this
tutorial. You can find it
online, but if you want to really experience it, you need to
hear it at a club.
posted by empath
on Jan 16, 2008 -
184 comments
