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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 0:51:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 0:58:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 1:25:51 GMT
I've heard loads of covers of this classic, but Nerina's is the best. She manages to do it completely differently, in a really stripped down way, but through her gorgeous, expressive vocals, still keeps the compassion, sadness, bitterness, and love of the original.
I also love the lo-fi approach of the video.
Simple.
Honest.
From the heart.
Just like the song.
This is a classic cover of a classic song.
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Post by hifidez on Mar 12, 2014 12:24:59 GMT
From over on the 'can we really hear hi-res' thread:
Derek
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2014 23:30:24 GMT
Turn on, Tune in, Bliss out, Rock n roll!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 23:53:01 GMT
Walked in to 'Fopp' 4 or 5 years ago looking for some Tom Baxter and heard this playing.
Asked the super-trendy, tattooed, face-pierced, body-pierced, green-haired thing behind the counter what it was, and was told -
"Remember Remember".
"Oh, Like the 'Fifth of November'", I humorously replied.
Blank, uncomprehending look. (Or should I say a look even more blank and uncomprehending than normal? What is it about today's youth? I know they're not all morons, so why do I keep bumping into the ones who are?)
"Never mind, I'll buy that album please. Do you know anything about the band or artist?"
Another blank, dead-eyed stare.
"Never mind, just ring it up and I'll pay now"
Turns out they're a Glasgow band who had dropped off a hundred cd's with the manager a couple of days before I had gone into the shop, hoping some would sell. They had around ten left when I bought mine.
Anyway, here's a sample of what I've been enjoying for years.
Just came across this video for 'Mountain'. Which shows it being performed live.
He's using live samples of everyday objects like sellotape dispensers, C-90 cassette tapes and pencil sharpeners to produce looped sounds, which become the rhythm track for the song he's recording.
Yello would be proud!
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 29, 2014 7:17:26 GMT
Holger Hiller did similar things in a really weird way back in the 80's I think it was. He still works and used the sampler in really innovative ways.
Tape loops were used way back when they were literally real tape loops. They were made physically with a piece of tape. The mellotron uses a similar idea to create sounds.
This idea of using loops was eventually taken up by what are referred to as minimalist composers. Compositions based on repeating loops that slowly alter over quite a long period of time sometimes.
Some minimalist composers like Steve Reich have produced some amazing pieces. Try looking at a piece called City Life by him. He recorded samples of every day life in New York and use them as the basis of his minimalist piece about life in America. Well, at least one place in America.
The use of patterns in music is not really anything new but the idea of patterns that slowly change or morph into other things later on in pieces was a new idea and was not only used in the classical world of music but also some pop musicians also used similar ideas.
If anyone asks me to write something now very quickly minimalism is a brilliant idea to use in order to get a piece together quickly. However getting it to sound nice is another problem.
City Life is a brilliant example of minimalism and the use of samplers.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 21:00:02 GMT
Been having a bit of a Trance/Trip-Hop night for a couple of hours already . . thought I'd share . . .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 21:18:00 GMT
Chill out . . .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 21:47:28 GMT
"O.K., we've already got two drummers, how else can we go over the top?
I know, turn the vocoder and distortion up to 11 . . . No, make it twelve!!"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 22:13:23 GMT
One of my favourite electronic/trip-hop/trance bands. And sooo cool, that I'm even willing to overlook the fact that they're French.
Anyone able to ID the headphones they're wearing? Moon Safari came out in 2007 or 2008 I think?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 23:03:27 GMT
An absolute stone-wall trip-hop classic . . .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 23:20:35 GMT
Although this has a bangra feel, I still reckon it is at heart a down-tempo trip-hop tune.
BTW, the album "Beyond Skin" has (fleetingly - on one or two of it's tracks) some of the deepest bass I have ever heard on any recording in any genre.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 23:31:05 GMT
Classic British trance -
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2014 0:23:19 GMT
Time for bo-bo's now, and to finish off, some Roots Manuva.
Ian, I know you (like me) appreciate the clever lyrics of Eminem. If you haven't already heard any Roots Manuva (Rodney Smith) I reckon you would like him. He has the same superb use of the English language as Eminem, but with a uniquely British slant. Rather than the normal, boring American hip-hop/rap lyrics about "How much cash I got, How big my Gun is , How sexy my bitches are",
Roots Manuva talks about
"Breakneck speed, we down ten pints of bitter . . . "
or " I sit here contented with this cheese on toast, I feel the pain of a third world famine" ,
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"Separation of the Dac from the Rack, that's a must".
From 'Dreamy Days' . . . .
"I want to take you away from all the stresses, buy you nice flowers and expensive dresses, you don't believe me, you think I'm cheesy"
"So can you picture past the honeymoon, where you beat me with a wooden spoon, And you got me sleepin' on the couch . . ."
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