the beat

i wanted to write this post about great drumming and stick to my subject better

what got me thinking about it was the great triple beat near the end of ride's vapour trail.

this track (ie. the original audio, published by sire records in 1990) is not available on youtube, but there is this rather excellent cover by the KeioBeatles

this is worth embedding



if i was presenting this on the radio, i'd have to say something like "that's the keiobeatles, covering ride's majestic vapour trail"

the other great drumming example that always leaps to mind is the walkmen's song the rat

this had been uploaded to youtube by a fan (or "non-authorised entity" i don't doubt, in someone's ledger)

and the audio has been "disabled" (by youtube) because "This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled. More about copyright"

"you've got the means, but do you have the rights?"

could be the heartbeat of the new era

i really don't know how i feel about copyright law. it seems to me that it's being forced to be altered to deal with a media it hasn't really been based on, and it's struggling to maintain its relevance across such a breadth of techniques, meanings, purposes and fiscal implications.

because the web doesn't really make money, does it? it's possible to sell things on the web, sure, and people do want to buy things that way, but it's also the greatest archive repository and reference available on the planet.

do you want to be referencable? unless you're ashamed of what you've done, then you probably do, so if you don't want some 17-year-old who *does* know how to do it, to do it, then you'd better hire someone to do it for you.

that's what i reckon

~ listener

p.s. "you've got a nerve to be asking a favour..." the rat - the walkmen

in the night garden

the bbc program that my daughter gets glued to like no other, in the night garden, claims to explore the space/place/time between sleeping and waking, as a subject for a kids show which is like a cross between japanese abstract tv and peter jacksonian depth-perception puppetry, like in braindead, but also with blue/green screen editing

which is all really quite beautiful

abstract things have a great capacity for beauty.

since catching it on, i believe kieren from fourtet's *exceptional* rage programming on rage

Four Tet Guest Programs Rage: Saturday, 3 October

i've been thinking a lot lately about the promo, or film that was made to go with sigur ros's track glosoli

and how beautiful it is

the word glosoli, according to wikipedia, meaning... something about sunshine

directly from wikipedia: In combination "glósóli" can be understood as a childish way of saying "glowing sun".

the promo film itself was made by an icelandic filmmaking team composed principally of Arni & Kinski




and that q-tip track was excellent too


Q-TIP Breathe And Stop (BMG)

of which there are a number of remixes, like this one



anyway, that's a nice juxtaposition to occupy ten minutes of a day in the life

regards

~ listener

this will destroy you... with laughter

in the instrumental vein, 'this will destroy you'... a band with a complicated and lengthy title. not quite as gothic as, and you will know us by the trail of dead, which remains one of the most unbelievable bands names ever, to my mind

explosions in the sky, friends of dean martinez, godspeed you black emperor, silver mt zion... not normal names.

in the playground of band names those are the ones with "strange parents"

this is from the album with the yellow bear on the cover



this band interest me. turned up in some threads about post rock... and in one comment, a kid who's dad has all the usual postrock records (explosions, tortoise...) but this was the only one that the kid had really got into. i liked that comment. wondered if the music i love will sound good or bad to my kid.

good music, or really music in general, was one of the things that me and my dad could talk about together. and good red wine.

a relationship with one's parent can be a hard-won thing.

i should mention at this stage in the blog, that i don't traffic in euphemism. i won't be making any fnar fnar jokes

i love a good laugh though

and this is one that makes me laugh



being able to hear the crowd laugh during this (even if the sound isn't that great) is part of the charm

there are at least two very distinct versions of home-made youtube music clip. one is just a still image of the artwork for the record, and a full playing of it, the other is a little home made bootleg live show...

i think it's awesome that this professional one, by a group of creatives called pleix, a track called 'birds,' is still embeddable though



enjoy

~ listener