MetaFilter posts tagged with music and electronic

Wow.

flatluigi — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:25:15 -0800

"UPular" - a new song from Pogo (previously on MeFi)

Been hypnotized lately?

flatluigi — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:34 -0800

Been hypnotized lately? Anthony Burril's video for Acid Washed's "General Motors, Detroit, America" is pure eye candy.

SWEDEMASON

flatluigi — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:35:03 -0800

The Works of Swede Mason: "Jeremy Clarkson," "Get in the Back of the Van," "Jungle All The Way," "Bill Wyman's Metal Detector," "Put the Lotion in the Basket, *" "Got The Sucka," "The Gobshite, *" "Squashed Thingy," "Spare Me The Madness," and the pair of tracks based on Neighbors deaths "Coffee And Croissants" and "Todd....Dead." note: starred tracks have NSFW audio. mp3 downloads can be found here.

Jetlag? Tinnitus? Sounds like a DJ...

sam and rufus — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:49:08 -0800

Si Begg has made a new EP. In the spirit of the age he's experiementing with how to get it out into the world, he's given his samples away before, now he's giving all the songs away free or you can buy a nice box set with an 12" made of oak!

"...and finally the robots and music non stop..."

Artw — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:12:19 -0800

Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk gives a rare interview to the Guardian, who also have a rather nice interactive feature on the bands influence.

So-Me, a.k.a. Bertrand de Langeron

Juliet Banana — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:40:30 -0800

JOIN THE COOLCATS MVMT. So-Me is the art director for Ed Banger Records. His job description includes touring with his muse Busy P, living with Justice, directing music videos, fashioning t-shirts and album art, designing Coca-Cola bottles, contributing to art exhibits, and just being a Cool Cat. Who are the Cool Cats? Pedro: This is the thing, anyone is a Cool Cat. Me and So-Me are the tag team behind this new mob, but we share lots of interest with a bunch of people from all around the world. So you’re welcome to join the MVMT! Michael: Like the AristoCats said, “Everybody wants to be a cat, because a cat’s the only cat who knows where its at!”

Tiga - Probably not a tiger.

debord — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:11:01 -0800

Canadian DJ bloke Tiga has a new album called Ciao. He's made a spoof documentary to promote it. It's really funny, even if you don't know about dance music - A bit like Nathan Barley by the ever wonderful Chris Morris. Part 1 Part 2

So put your good dress on

divabat — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:31:41 -0800

We Are Smug is the side project of former Savage Garden frontman turned electropop showman Darren Hayes and collaborator and fellow electronic musician Robert Conley. Hayes and Conley had been working on this project secretly for about two years before releasing it online for free on Hayes's birthday. There are no current plans to tour or sell this album, aside from the free download, but there are already official music videos. (Warning: last link potentially triggering.)

Fahrenheit Far Away

plexi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:13:18 -0800

One half of Telefon Tel Aviv has died. Charlie Cooper was part of the well respected electronic/IDM group that has been releasing music and remixing since 2001.

The Tone Generation, A Radio History of Electronic Music

jack_mo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:15:34 -0800

The Tone Generation is a radio series by Ian Helliwell 'looking at different themes or composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology'. The original globe-trotting series: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, USA, Canada, Rest of World. Bonus programmes: Expo 58, The RCA Synthesizer. All links are to MP3 files, except the first one. Alternatively, you can slurp down the lot in one go by subscribing to the podcast feed.

electric stimulus to face

chrismear — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:07:23 -0800

electric stimulus to face

This video contains so much more than flashing lights

blasdelf — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:41:18 -0800

Dancefloor Dale (autoplaying music video) — NSFW after 1:05, and never safe for epilleptics. SFW Intro on YouTube | Polite Dance Song has been featured here before | More Tim & Eric posts… dancefloordale.com is the home of the project, I didn't make it the main link as the video-preview image is spoilerish.

Yes, the same port that fell into the ocean off Jamaica

Christ, what an asshole — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:50:37 -0800

port-royal - Musicians from Genova, Italy who specialize in a distinct blend of cinematic guitars and synthesizers. Experience rather than merely listen:
jeka, roliga timmen, putin vs. valery (NSFW), anya: sehnsucht, bahnhof zoo, stasi, flares pt. 3

808

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:28:20 -0800

808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808080808

Forget about this," she says, "it's for interest only."

le morte de bea arthur — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:54:47 -0800

A recently uncovered musical experiment by Delia Derbyshire predicted the sound of modern dance music three decades before it became fashionable. Derbyshire (1937 - 2001) is best-known for her long-uncredited contribution to the Doctor Who theme. After her death in 2001 a set of 267 tapes were found in her attic, and among them was this oddly prescient gem. Wikipedia article on Derbyshire. Previously and more previously.

Dub(step)

phrontist — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:43:21 -0800

Dub step is from the UK. It's typified by skittering, shuffled, syncopated rhythms with lots of triplets, dissonant and minor tonality, and most strikingly... (sub)bass. It uses a lot of effects people associate with dub. Crank your woofer and listen to the likes of Skream (who has done a pretty good introductory mix), Plastician, Digital Mystikz, and El-B. Previously

A History of Techno

hadjiboy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:36:07 -0800

The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th Century. From the instrument that was created by Leon Theremin, to the Moog Guitar that's been named after the legendary Bob Moog (the inventor of the Moog Synthesizer), Electronic music has come a long way since its early days. YouTube [a, b, (extreme caution advised: graphic images of death, destruction and 9/11 c), d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y] (Previously mentioned here, here, here, here, here and here)

Wonderland

flatluigi — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:16:06 -0800

'Alice,' by Nick Bertke. MP3s of 'Alice' and three other pieces of music similarly created by sampling Alice in Wonderland can be downloaded from here.

Bebe Barron, RIP

Chinese Jet Pilot — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:10:12 -0800

Bebe Barron, 82, Pioneer of Electronic Scores, Is Dead. Best known for the soundtrack to the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet -- the first full-length feature to use only electronic music -- she and her husband Louis Barron recorded the film's pre-synthesizer "electronic tonalities" with electronic circuits of their own invention. She never scored another feature film, but remained active in the avant-garde music scene.

Edgard, Iannis and György.

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:23:43 -0800

Edgard Varèse : Ionisation. Iannis Xenakis : Rebonds. György Ligeti : Artikulation and Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes. [NOTE: see hoverovers for link descriptions] Ionisation Wikipedia. Edgar Varèse, actor. Who knew?

Lights! Sounds! Fingers!

binturong — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:48:47 -0800

Yamaha's tenorion gets unveiled in Montreal this week. Going head-to-head with the Beamz music-maker linked here earlier, this baby has lights!

Early Electronic Instruments

terrapin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:10:11 -0800

Elisha Gray could have been known to us as the inventor of the telephone. Instead, he goes down in history as the accidental creator of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the "Musical Telegraph." There are many other examples of early electronic instruments, including: the Teleharmonium, the Audion Piano, the Optophonic Piano, the Trautonium, the Ondes Martenot, the Rhythmicon, the Theremin Cello and the better-known Aetherphone (aka Theremin) to name a few. MetaFilter discussed odd music previously.

Roger Mainwood's 1979 animated film of Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn', plus other assorted forward-thinking clips featuring the same music and/or theme

Item — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:06:59 -0800

Autobahn, a 12 minute animated film by Roger Mainwood, was commissioned by Kraftwerk's record label in 1979 to be released on one of the first ever laser discs. Here's a quick 'making of' featurette, a short interview with the filmmaker, and several live versions of the epic and innovative track. Bonuses: Die Mensch-Maschine - 1982 Austrian television documentary on the group: one, zwei Undated piece featuring interviews with former members Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flür: eins, two

Robot High School

nangsta — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:14:32 -0800

Bloody balls! Make sure to stick around for the surprise ending. Supposedly no significant computer generated effects were added.

Dance music toys: Get your cheese on.

nthdegx — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:18:49 -0800

Dance music toys. Get your cheese on. Via Music Thing.