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1976: The Arse End of Old Wave (the New Wave barely in sight)
Feels like any week now it ought to be kicking off in terms of Punk Fiftieth Anniversary coverage. Magazine retrospectives, TV programs, exh...
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Albums you grudgingly respect / dutifully acknowledge the objective eminence, but when push comes to shove you never actually want to play /...
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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... -
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...
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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