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In the tradition of the Mr Jones song about worker drones commuting, having heart attacks, wasting away in an office cubicle etc ("Ec...
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Love this tune by J Dilla Imagine my surprise on discovering that it is very largely composed out of a single 10cc song, "The Worst Ban...
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Okay, let's see how things had shifted, in terms of the canon, slightly more than a decade after the 1974 appraisal by the critics of t... -
Which doesn't mean things I'm embarrassed about - not at all ... just things that caught my ear before I was seriously following pop...
I don't know if you knew that NASA recorded the resonant frequencies of the planets in their orbits and converted them to sound. You can hear them here:
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Saturn and Pluto sound exactly like their reputation suggests!
There was a Italian electronic musician lady composer who did something like that in the '90s - converting interstellar radiation or pulses from distant stars and galaxies - but the end result sounded like trance!
ReplyDeleteSome of those planetary sounds are vaguely familiar to me, and I've got a strong suspicion that they were used by Chrome on Alien Soundtracks and Half-Machine Lip Moves. Hmmmm.......
ReplyDeleteMatthew Ingram's e-book about overlooked 70s rock included this, bought it on the back of the effusive recommendation and it was all true, great stuff
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