these beautiful handmade electronic instruments are called “DEWANATRONS”. they are built by cousins Brian and Leon Dewan. their “swarmatron” has been used by Trent Reznor in his recent soundtrack work.
i posted a pic earlier of my friend paul and i recording samples from one of these machines. leon is an old friend of ours.
go to their site and listen to these things. they are amazing.
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Les Fragments de la Nuit - Musique du Crépuscule
This is yellow vinyl w/ brown haze, limited to 150 pieces!
This art is responsible for one of the only times I actually regret not being a vinyl hipster. Wonderful artwork on heavy sleeves—I’d buy it just to hang it on my wall, and that vanilla extract stained yellow vinyl is just sexy.
- 1920’s – the record business complained about radio. The argument was because radio is free, you can’t compete with free. No one was ever going to buy music again.
- 1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. “It’s all over,” complained the studios. In fact, the number of screens went from 17,000 in 1948 to 38,000 today.
- 1950’s – broadcast television was free; the threat was cable television. Studios argued that their free TV content couldn’t compete with paid.
- 1970’s – Video Cassette Recorders (VCR’s) were going to be the end of the movie business. The movie businesses and its lobbying arm MPAA fought it with “end of the world” hyperbola. The reality? After the VCR was introduced, studio revenues took off like a rocket. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets.
- 1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased.
- 2000 – Digital Video Recorders (DVR) like TiVo allowing consumer to skip commercials was going to be the end of the TV business. DVR’s reignite interest in TV.
- 2006 - broadcasters sued Cablevision (and lost) to prevent the launch of a cloud-based DVR to its customers.
- Today it’s the Internet that’s going to put the studios out of business. Sound familiar?
(Source: filmsandfoxes)
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
I told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember
Underground from the land down under… hard to get any lower than that, I suppose, though I’m not sure how indie or underground a group sitting at #11 on the US Billboard charts can truly be. On top of that, Gotye have apparently been indie rag sweethearts for a hell of a lot longer than I’ve known about them, but I’ll just tip my hipster fedora and accept being lapped by a song this good.
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well, you said that we would still be friends
But I’ll admit that I was glad it was over
This is powerful, evocative stuff. With its sparse instrumentation and jaunty, awake-but-on-autopilot rhythm, “Somebody That I Used to Know” perfectly paints the disembodied voice in your head after a breakup: drifting, listless, separated by a thousand yard stare’s worth of emotional space… punctuated with violent outbursts of despair and bitterness, a.k.a. the chorus:
But you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
I don’t even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so roughNo, you didn’t have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
Guess that I don’t need that though
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know
Though Making Mirrors was released in August 2011, I first heard this one on the radio driving home in the cold the other night, and it strikes me as much more of a wintersong. “Chill” is the word here—-whether you mean the twee indie-pop cool it oozes, the chill quasi-orchestral bounce of the instrumentation, or the bitter, icy quaver of the estranged narrators’ siren song.
I think the Radio Radar review put it best: “Now don’t get me wrong, I have never been in a situation like this, yet it feels so relatable.”
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I’d done
But I don’t wanna live that way, reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go, and I wouldn’t catch you
hung up on somebody that you used to know, oh, oh…
“As 1941 drew to a close, the great Woody Guthrie sat and drew up an illustrated list of 33 resolutions for the following year, 1942. The charming result of his efforts, entitled “New Year’s Rulin’s,” can be enjoyed below.”
Transcript
NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S
1. WORK MORE AND BETTER
2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE
3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
4. SHAVE
5. TAKE BATH
6. EAT GOOD - FRUIT - VEGETABLES - MILK
7. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY
8. WRITE A SONG A DAY
9. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES - LOOK GOOD
10. SHINE SHOES
11. CHANGE SOCKS
12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN
13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS
14. LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT
15. LEARN PEOPLE BETTER
16. KEEP RANCHO CLEAN
17. DON’T GET LONESOME
18. STAY GLAD
19. KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING
20. DREAM GOOD
21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY
22. SAVE DOUGH
23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DON’T WASTE TIME
24. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY
25. PLAY AND SING GOOD
26. DANCE BETTER
27. HELP WIN WAR - BEAT FASCISM
28. LOVE MAMA
29. LOVE PAPA
30. LOVE PETE
31. LOVE EVERYBODY
32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND
33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT
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The Midnight Riders! I got all their albums, even the new ones that ain’t no good!
Bastion is one of a small but brilliant handful of games which I have absolutely adored in the last couple years. I don’t usually stray much from my Left 4 Dead and the classics, but a gem is a gem. It’s rare to find a game that succeeds so thoroughly with its gameplay (i.e. it’s fun, moderately challenging, and has high replayability) while simultaneously breathing life into a totally new, foreign world, and seamlessly telling a marvelous story.
That last bit is really important: I’m not impressed when I can see all the threadbare attempts at “immersion” in the over-the-shoulder action RPG or FPS-on-rails flavor of the month. Bastion succeeds on all fronts. You care about the characters and want to know more about their world. You feel pride at chipping away at your quest to put Caelondia back together. It’s amazing fun to hammer a Windbag into oblivion while sipping on some Hearty Punch or Black Rum. And all the while, Logan Cunningham’s addictive narration (I would pick him over Morgan Freeman to narrate my life, seriously) and Darren Korb’s pitch perfect soundtrack spurs you on.
“In Case of Trouble” is the main Bastion theme: the track you’ll be hearing more than any other. The initially timid (or maybe just brooding) gunslinger Western chord progression swells with a slowly awakening orchestra and an electronic drumkit—a perfect fit for the Diablo meets Max Payne, “Link Eastwood” ambiance of Bastion.
Like so many other incredible game soundtracks, the Bastion OST is also a prime example of the sheer power music possesses, and its ability to shape one’s entire perception, and memory, of an entertainment experience. Bastion is a wonderful, near flawless game, but a cool game without its cool soundtrack is like ice without the cream. Without taking anything away from any of the other Supergiant Games team members, it is the sound Darren Korb and Logan Cunningham provide which ultimately breathes the world of Caelondia into palpable existence. The music and the voices are what make you wish, or believe, that this place exists somewhere, and is real.
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Bastion for Xbox 360: Bastion is available on Xbox LIVE Arcade. It was the first title in 2011’s Summer of Arcade!
Bastion for PC: Bastion is available for PC via Steam, GamersGate, Origin, Green Man Gaming, Direct2Drive, Impulse, and OnLive.
Stream and buy the soundtrack on Bandcamp.
This is also the exact same defense that they reject when it comes from someone else.
Kurt Cobain once described Nirvana’s music as “the Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.”
Similarly, These Arms Are Snakes kind of sound like there’s molestation occurring, or possibly a mugging of some sort. In the case of “Crazy Woman, Dirty Train,” as well as other cuts from 2006’s Easter, it sounds beautiful and sick as hell. The song’s cowcatcher guitar riff barrels into your face like Sonic Youth stole Neil Young’s octave divider pedal and used it for brass knuckles outside a blues bar in Mississippi.
The rustbucket tones tread close to Steve Albini’s Shellac, and the siren whine noises recall the playful attitude towards the weird sounds that can be coaxed from a guitar heard from the likes of Desert Fathers. This is blues music for the zombie apocalypse, or an acid trip down a sulfuric river.
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NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
