Was introduced to this from The Mike O’meara Show.
Documentary about street life in Florida. Worth the hour watch!
Category Archives: Cool stuff
Hall of The Titan Mountain Thing
I was playing my stupid Jackpot Party Casino game on my phone. I was winning big. When you win big in a slot machine, the music plays a repetitive arpeggio or loop while it totals (or dramatically counts up) your winnings. For some reason when I won on this slot machine, the “count your money up” loop got stuck on my phone.
Before the app crashed, I plugged my phone into the Korg Kaoss Pad (aka the red box) and tortured the loop with effects.
Put this in your headphones and check it out! Play it loud! Try to identify all the different effects going on. Half the time, its not even altering an audio source. The red box snatches up a sample and lets you torture it in mid-air. It’s TOO POWERFUL!!! 🙂
REVIEW OF GRAMMY AWARDS 2015
Will the real Kanye “hamster cheeks” West REMAIN SEATED FOR A CHANGE? Thats about it folks!
Larry King Does the Temple of Doom: KAL EE MAAAAAHHHH!
Knob Twiddler of The Year: Daniel Lanois
For those who don’t know who Daniel Lanois is, let’s just say he produced and made U2 famous, worked a ton with Brian Eno, produced stuff for Bob Dylan, and host of other artists that really have nothing in common with each other. This guy goes on CeMeGo’s top 10 music producers list (up there with people such as Brian Eno, Trevor Horn, Todd Rundgren, etc). With his latest album, he decided to play the studio like an instrument. Obviously this needs a very good rhythm section, which he definitely has here. The sounds he is generating are pre recorded and some are sampled in the moment (from the drum or the bass) and then everything is oscillated manipulated and extrapolated. 🙂 This, of course, is right up my alley.
As always, crank it!
Michael McDonald What a Fool Will Eat
I confess. I laughed at this and sang along!
Nothing Like Good Disaster Coverage: The Sinking of The Costa Concordia
Tis the season to stay in and watch stuff, because it’s so damn cold, what else can you do!
I stumbled over this movie/tv show/documentary whatever about the cell phone footage of passengers and crew of the ill fated Costa Concordia. Well worth the 47 minutes of time, it is definitely worth the watch. I think the captain of this ship is the text book definition of pussy.
After watching, tell me if you are thinking about booking a cruise any time soon! (NOTE: I wouldn’t be surprised if this was yanked off of youtube tomorrow. I downloaded it to archive. I’m surprised this is even present on the youtube site, so watch it while you can).
Flim & The BB’s: God I Miss This Band
Some of the best and craziest jazz ever. These guys were one of the first to DIGITALLY record music (at the birth of the Compact Disc).
This is a video of them doing the song “Toy Chest”.
I have almost every one of their albums (at least I did on cassette and some on CD).
Some of the most whistle’able tunes ever created. Guaranteed, if you listen to any of their music, you will whistle or hum it immediately after you hear it. The musicianship is astounding but the song writing is sooooooooooo sticky.
It’s also fun to watch the videos as they are such a time piece. Notice the old IBM PC AT and the first generation Macintosh behind keyboardist Billy Barber. This song is “Sideman”. Also notice how sticky the melodies are on these songs. Its like a drug!
…also couldn’t forget the song “funhouse” (so glad someone posted these on youtube).
This song stuck in my head so much, I couldn’t rest until I could at least FAKE the main theme of this song on a keyboard. It’s not that hard, but my god does the melody stick. Intoxicating!!!
Listen and get infected.
(and the sad part is. I still cant find all of their music on the internet 🙁 ) You can hear most, if not all, of their music on WMOM (of course).
