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Analog Scene updates with fresh tracks and commentary on art and music throughout the work week. If you like what you hear send the artist some naked pix of yourself. Just make sure the nudes are tasteful, sexy, and original.Archive for Electronic
super mario compact disco
Wednesday 04.30.08
Everyone knows about the horrible licensing flukes that can come out of video game franchises; you can look at any cartoon, and almost all movies based off videos games and be certain that it’ll probably suck. Today I have something to share with you that sucks just as much as the Super Mario Show and the movie, although I must say that John Leguizamo makes a fine Luigi.
Back in ‘93 Nintendo of Japan got Ambassadors of Funk to create an atrocious but awesomely nostalgic, inaccurate, and laughable sampler based electro hip hop album under the pseudonym, MC Mario. It’s terrible, but if you haven’t heard this shit yet than you owe to yourself to download these tracks and don’t worry, I won’t be sad at you for deleting it from iTunes after you play it.
Go on, right click these, I dare you.
Ambassadors of Funk- Super Mario World
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Ambassadors of Funk- Super Mario Land
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- Kyle
30hz
Monday 04.28.08
Remember a few months ago when you friend sent you that Burial CD and you were like “holy balls dubstep is sweet! no one could ever come close to this?” Well, get a new pair of underwear ready, because 30hz will make you pee yourself. While the album is far from straight dubstep (more “tech-funk” as the label likes to call it), “Mutate” will hit all your buttons sequentially.
James Grinzburg, the dude behind the project, just released his debut album with the moniker a few months ago. Electric Sheep reminds me a little of what Entroducing… did to me the first time I heard it, although in a very different way. Grinzburg’s sense of idiosyncratic ryhthm and penchant for weirdly beautiful samples has really turned me on to the techno/house/breakbeat family. Hopefully it’ll do the same to you, dear reader.
30Hz- Mutate
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- Ben
Hi everyone! Kyle here. I hope you enjoyed Ben’s 30Hz post and the 30Hz track but I feel that you need a second track of dubsteppy goodness! One of my favorites from the album:
30Hz- Dissosociate
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- Kyle
the album leaf
Wednesday 04.22.08
Ambient electronic music has always been a favorite of mine but occasionally you’ll find that it’s sometimes a mixed bag because as with all music genres becase simply liking ambient electronic music doesn’t mean that I’m going to enjoy it all. Some ambient tunage that I do like however, and it happens to come from Californian post-rock electronic outfit, The Album Leaf. The San Diego based group creates beautiful pop sounds with gorgeous instrumentation and relaxing vibes. Quite simply, their music is almost ambient pop perfection with the occasional somber but welcome overtone.
The following track comes from The Album Leaf’s mostly overlooked 2007 release, Green Tour EP. Drawing Mountains is a beautiful track of which I’m sure you’ll stick on repeat.
The Album Leaf- Drawing Mountains
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-Kyle
music: kelpe
What starts off as something that seems like improv Jazz, Kelpe’s Colours Don’t Leak ends up turning into a phenomenal ambient instrumental track with some droning synths, electronics and a high class drum kit. The track is off of Kelpe’s 2008 album, Ex-Aquarium and I have yet to get a hold of the whole album but I’ll be sure to post about it when I do.
The song clocks in around six minutes but don’t worry, shit never gets tiring. It’s a great song to add to your weekly playlist and if you dig it enough, It probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to check into some of Kelpe’s other stellar music.
Kelpe- Colours Don’t Leak
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-Kyle
photo via flickr user, piccadillywilson.
music: milosh
You’re tossing and turning. You’re legs are tired and to top things off, you had a terrible dream about him. The thought of the nightmare made your head hurt but when you awoke he was there and he told you simply that it was all just a bad dream. You had to get up, you had to go, and you had to leave. You had things to do and he understood.
You kissed him goodbye and walked out the door and down the stairs to the lobby where you noticed your bag was heavier. You sit down in the nearest chair and look at the contents in your bag. A box is inside. It’s hastily wrapped in brown paper and an emerald green bow because you know how terrible he is at wrapping. You take the package out and inside is your missing iPod with earphones.
You smile, you put them in your ears and you press the play button. It comes on and this is what you hear:
Milosh- Couldn’t Sleep
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photo via flickr user, accidentallyonpurpose.
music and culture: drm news and matmos
Hope your weekend went well! Let’s get started with some news about Amazon’s DRM-Free mp3 Service. Amazon now has a Linux client for the service and now Amazon supports all major operating systems which definitely could give them an edge over iTunes but then again; Linux users are a pretty minuscule number of the computing population. Other DRM news includes a NY Times story on how publishers are phasing out DRM. Audible has yet to jump on this band wagon.
Alright enough of that, let’s get to the music! My good friend Matt Kish once posted the following track at his blog on Spudd64 and I can’t look into the archives to quote him directly but I will paraphrase I little of what he had to say about the Matmos song I’m sharing with you. Kish has a way of describing music that I’m not very good at but one of the things that he said really stuck with me. First off he said that the song reminded him of summer and I believe he was posting this in the middle of winter so it was applicable but the thing that really got me was his intimate description of sitting on a front porch just simply enjoying summer while listening to the fireworks in the distance along with other ambient noises. It was a gorgeous description and it’s a bummer I can’t recreate it for you.
Regardless, I miss summer too.
Matmos- For The Trees (Return)
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- Kyle
music: a short lesson in electro
It’s been fun to watch the evolution of electro, hasn’t it? The word ‘electro’ started out as such an odd creature, no one was sure quite exactly what it meant. To some, electro meant anything with synthesizers (i.e. electro-rock). To others, electro meant the more avant garde side of dance music, with harder and heavier elements. In the end, it became neither. I feel a lynching coming on, but to me electro has become the ‘indie’ of electronic music – you’ll find the most obscure samples in it, you’ll hear the most innovative things the scene has to offer, and you’ll hear good music that your average candy kid or gamer won’t. And yes, that makes the whole genre seem quite pretentious to me; but why else would I like it so much?
That being said, when you go looking for electro; you’re reaching into a grab bag of genres. You never really know what you’re going to get. It’s fun when you get a few songs that you can group into their very own special category. Today’s episode is brought to you by pounding, driving and grinding beats mixed with soaring, easy to remember melodies! Shake your groove thangs all the way into the weekend with these tracks.
Stereoheroes- Moon Knight
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Vitalic- Poney Part 1
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-Robert
photo from flickr user, emily_chiavelli.
music: tenniscoats
Tenniscoats are from outside Tokyo and have just released their excellent seventh album, Tan-Tan Therapy. The album is a mix of their work over the last two years, owing much of its influence to the band Tape, who also play on the record. They’ve managed to utilize the sound of double bass, zither, and glockenspiel to thicken up their original sound.
Umbarepa! is so catchy that it’s already well into this month’s top ten most played on my end. I get a pretty rad Stereolab/Cibo Matto vibe from the track, and have found myself singing this in the shower for the last three mornings. Repa!
Tenniscoats- Umbarepa!
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-Ben
photo via flickr user, cylou.
music: the fashion
Ahh Europe! Denmark in particular. That’s where you’ll find ridiculously multi-talented artists such as Jakob Printzlau who happens to be a filmmaker, animator, editor, graphic designer, and lead man of The Fashion. The doods that also contribute to the awesome post-punk, electronically fuzzed party that The Fashion are, happen to be, guitarist Anders Find Axelsen and bassist Christian Lignell Bækholm, along with drummer Jakob Ankær Johansen.
Together these guy produce some incredibly amazing pop music and some of it, including the mp3 I’m sharing with you is often borderline hip hop influenced. Which is just awesome. While Jakob Printzlau can occasionally sound like a mall punk rocker, his songwriter and musician skills clearly make up for that downfall. I’m sharing with you two tracks, one is a song from their E.P. which has the awesome hip hop influences juxtaposed with the punk vocals and the other is a remix of Like Knives which totally sounds like a new and improved Faint track.
I’m super stoked to see what else The Fashion can crank out and if you want to see one of their shows as soon as possible then get your ass down to SXSW.
The Fashion- Solo Impala (Take the Money and Run)
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Tiger Baby VS The Fashion- TIGER BABY REMIX [Like Knives]
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- Kyle
photo via flickr user, jkonig.
music and culture: downliners sekt
Everyone knows about all the Radiohead biznass that occurred in late 2007 with their whole digital distribution/pick your own price shit. Yeah I called it shit because personally I thought it was pretty lame of Thom Yorke and co. to be all about this absolutely kick ass idea to try and evolve the music industry’s economy and then release the album traditionally and take away the online distribution model they started off with. What the fuck happened? It was like Radiohead got stage fright or maybe that green just tasted too good. Let’s not even mention the album was entirely underwhelming.
Radiohead failed in my book. They had an awesome idea, ran with it, then dropped it, and covered up with greed. The music industry definitely doesn’t need greed, and it definitely doesn’t need Thom Yorke. It needs more artists like Downliners Sekt.
Two days before Valentine’s Day I received an email from Downliners Sekt with a link to their website. I was already smitten by their kind words in the email but when I arrived at their cyberhome, I was even more impressed. The website has incredible design, it’s a little dark and gritty but it’s sexy dark and gritty. What’s the point? Well first off these artists already have the presentation shit down solidly so all they need to do now is deliver the goods. Deliver the goods they do.
Creative Commons! Let’s talk about Creative Commons and what Downliners Sekt has to do with Creative Commons. First off Creative Commons is an alternative to Copyright and it’s growing steadily. Basically it gives people the right to copy and distribute work under the CC license with minimal restrictions. It’s a really incredible idea and I’m definitely for it. So what about Downliners Sekt and Creative Commons? Well all of Downliners Sekt’s music under a Creative Commons license! What does that mean?
Their digital music is free. That’s right, so you won’t even feel a pang of guilt when downloading their album. On second thought scratch that point, when is the last time you actually ever felt a pang of guilt for downloading an album illegally? Exactly. Well, at least download an album for free legally has to feel a little better. Downliners Sekt wants you to stick their album in your P2P share folder and distribute it on torrents. They want you to share the love and some wonderful love it is. Of course they have a PayPal button but that’s up to you! If you want to show some love then break out the credit card but they’re not forcing you to do anything.
Downliners Sekt make incredibly cool dark electronic beats that teeter on electropop and other genres around that area. Their albums are instrumental sanctuaries of sound and noise. I’ve been spinning their newest album, The Saltire Wave and I’ve been digging the shit out of it. Especially when I normally don’t find myself listening to darker music.
I absolutely champion everything that Downliners Sekt is doing. They’re saying “fuck you” to the music industry with style, flair, and content! So go on, click the following links below to download their newest album and visit their website.
Downliners Sekt- The Saltire Wave
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Downliners Sekt
http://downliners-sekt.com/
-Kyle
