In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Beck has confessed that most of the lyrics on Odelay are complete gibberish - scratch vocals that he never replaced.
Kind of makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
I found this link on the wonderful FAWM forums - join us!
Work continues on polishing Evolution, hopefully to be finished soon - however, I wouldn’t expect it to be before March. That’s because FAWM is almost upon us once again! Yes, fourteen songs in twenty-eight days - but wait. This is a leap year! No problem, they say. Do us fourteen and a half.
Genius!
Sadly, some bad news on the internet music front is that Pandora, the internet music recommendation service, has been forced to block UK IPs from the site - meaning that it is now a purely US site and is in danger of going under even there. To help fill the hole Pandora leaves, I humbly recommend SeeqPod - It crawls search engines and streams you the results. Perfect if you have a song you HAVE TO LISTEN TO RIGHT NOW.
Hello, folks. How’ve you been?
It struck me the other day, whilst viewing the excellent Jonathan Coulton’s website, that I can’t possibly hope to keep or build a fanbase if I leave my precious site here dormant. So, sorry about that.
There are a few pieces of news that I should share with you all. Firstly, the Music For A Film EP is no longer for sale - it was a nice experiment, but I think I need to stick to free music for now. A free download will be coming shortly, so if you didn’t get a copy then not to fret.
Second, everything I do in future will be put out under the name The Approximation, the main reason being that if I actually do get a band together sometime then we’ll be already set.
Last, but not least, remember that album I was working on many moons ago? It is about to become The Approximation’s first release. The tracklisting is as follows:
01. March
02. The Walls
03. Rocking
04. SPC
05. 11
06. Ten Lies
07. Do You Know?
08. Five
09. Lay Back
10. Wanted
11. Time
Awesome. Now, if you would like to be a fan of The Approximation on the dreaded Facebook, click here. If you would like to hear a little something I’ve been up to for fun, click here.
PS: If you’d like to see some footage of me in action, click here.
I discovered, thanks to the wonderful Computer Music Magazine, that Pandora’s doors are still open to those in the UK. This is excellent news for everybody, as it is by far the finest music recommendation service that exists. Today, however, Pandora is silent. Why?
I’m sorry to say that today Pandora, along with most Internet radio sites, is going off the air in observance of a Day Of Silence. We are doing this to bring to your attention a disastrous turn of events that threatens the existence of Pandora and all of internet radio. We need your help.
Fees to keep Pandora airing will not only triple, but will retroactively triple for the past 18 months thanks to a bill currently before the US Congress. This would bankrupt even a strongly profitable company, something which Pandora is not.
If you live in the US, you can find your Congresspersons and their phone numbers by entering your zip code here. Also, no matter where you live, you can visit Save Net Radio and follow the fight.
P.S. Thanks to Wilson for some stylesheet edits.
I just thought I’d let you guys know a couple of things that I use to make my music, and the places that I get them from.
(Spiritual Awakening, FAWM 2007)
All of the orchestral sounds on this are part of the Squidfont Orchestral soundfont, available here. Also available on that site are some soundfonts from the nigh-legendary Nando Florestan.
Catherine, TBA 2007
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On this track I use the free Mellotron VST called TapeWorm from the frankly wonderful TweakBench. He has a wide range of VST instruments and effects all for free, and a kicking Nintendo naming scheme for some of them.
While this may not seem like a very exhaustive list, these are two very powerful tools and two very useful websites with far more to offer than I’m sure I use them for. Check them out!
Ahoy there. Just to let you know how things are coming along with the new album, there are three songs complete, two written but not completely recorded, and one in the works with Mr Tim Wille - and only ONE of those is an instrumental. Featured on one of the finished tracks and one of the mostly-finished tracks is The Rumored End (MySpace link) (FAWM link). I’m also hoping to get Isaac Quatorze on at least one track - I contributed to one of his FAWM tracks this year. Another collaborator I’m hoping to work with is a very busy man indeed, so I won’t link him just yet in case it doesn’t come to fruition.
The moral, kids? Do FAWM next year. You’ll drop into the most useful and talented music community you could possibly hope to.
Here, have a teaser.
First off, shout-out to Brian. Hi, Brian!
As you may have noticed, I’ve managed to uncover awful things about the music business with startling frequency recently. Well, there’s more. Steve Albini, legendary studiohand behind such acts as Pixies, has this to say about your friends who have just joined a label: This is how fucked they are.
Work is continuing apace on album #3, probably my most together and professional sounding yet. My aim is to have some kind of collaboration on every track. Anyone up for that? It’ll be a freebie, as per, and hopefully it’ll be appearing here in the next couple of months.
It’s Friday night, folks, which means tonight is my show on BKWR. Don’t miss it! See the page for details.
There was a technical error (Read: I screwed up) this week, so there’s no archive of the 13/04/07 show. You can, however, enjoy last week’s show for a week longer because of this! You lucky people.
Two things I want to pimp out to you today: Firstly, The Turtles discuss record labels. Secondly, every Thursday night DS Fanboy has a game night, for all wi-fi enabled Nintendo DS games. Join us!
Ahoy there, listeners.
Work on the concept album I mentioned has slowed due to a variety of factors - a lot of it needs to be re-recorded, and some of it I’m just plain not happy with - and so work has begun on my third album proper. A likely addition to this album will be my first SongFight entry. SongFight is a musician’s challenge where you are given a title and you have to write a song to fit that title. This week’s title - Ten Lies - just grabbed me so much I had to jump in.
Also on the internet of note this week is this interview with Dick Dale, who you may not know by name, but he’s the guitarist who played the version of Misirlou on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack and can play like you can breathe. He has some interesting views on the music industry that he imparts for free in the video.
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