The most curious was on a chariot that carried the most singular music that can be imagined. It held a bear that played the organ; instead of pipes, there were sixteen cat heads each with its body confined; the tails were sticking out and were held to be played as the strings on a piano, if a key was pressed on the keyboard, the corresponding tail would be pulled hard, and it would produce each time a lamentable meow... the cats were arranged properly to produce a succession of notes from the octave… Sixteenth-century Europe, Jingle Cats, and the 2008 Housing Bubble:
The Birth of Sampling [more inside]
posted by waterunderground
on May 29, 2011 -
20 comments
Pain Pack — Ze Frank posted a phone number and asked that anyone experiencing emotional pain leave him a message. He received a number of very distraught messages. From those, DJs and musicians created 138 samples for him—and those samples have since been made into songs—and the collaborative process continues.
posted by netbros
on Feb 1, 2010 -
26 comments
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."
[more inside]
posted by flatluigi
on Oct 13, 2009 -
14 comments
Pendle Poucher is a UK based composer, sound designer and lover of funny noises who has written, produced and performed soundtracks for every major UK TV station. He has devised large scale public art projects and written chart-topping dance music. However, what I find most interesting, he is also one of relatively few musicians within the UK who owns a dulcitone. Poucher claims that his
Dulcitone 1884 is the world's first multi-sampled dulcitone.
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posted by netbros
on Dec 20, 2008 -
8 comments
Dreamies. It's 1972, and
affable salaryman and good husband Bill Holt quits his good job at 3M to become a musical pioneer from the comfort of his own basement. The resulting album,
Dreamies, is notable for its generous and ahead-of-its-time use of sampling/plunderphonics and became a highly sought-after lost classic
until its re-release this year. Bill now has
his own website, also called Dreamies, where he releases
Eye Candy and Politics in liberal doses. Some are
hypnotic, some are, for want of a better term, '
relaxing', others are
anything but. And all of them are subtly infused with the slightly unsettling taste of
Huh?
posted by nylon
on Jun 27, 2006 -
8 comments
Making music entirely from non-musical things:
McDonalds Happy Meals,
Henry Kissinger,
Bread,
Salad Tosser,
Fluorescent Lamps,
the Bible,
Hearts,
Dot Matrix Printers,
Photocopiers,
Volkswagen [possibly nsfw],
The Postal Service,
Blank Tapes,
Eiffel Tower,
Deportation Orders [scroll down],
Cakes,
Cucumbers,
Furniture [scroll down to #12],
Skin,
Roads,
Underpasses,
Frogs,
Vinyl Run-Out Grooves,
Radios,
Natural Geophysical Phenomena,
Carly Simon and
other stuff.
posted by nylon
on Aug 7, 2005 -
16 comments
A hip hop geek's wet dream... I don't know about you, but to find this site made my day. Dozens and dozens of full length songs that your favorite hip hop producers have sampled. If you can convert streaming audio to mp3, the songs are yours!
posted by Slimemonster
on Jun 9, 2003 -
22 comments
