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Check this amazing analysis of The Scale’s guitar solo by Meg Wilhoite. Her whole blog dedicated to musical analysis of Interpol is worth reading!
Sweet Tumblr love from interpoldocuments!
Self-promotion time! Faulkner Detectives, the band I’m in with my friends Elizabeth, Meg and Vanessa, just released an EP: The Modern Handshake.
You can snag a copy at our BandCamp page. How much? Well, that’s the fun part! The price is whatever you want. Think it’s worth $10? Cool. $1? 50 cents? That’s OK, too.
The tracks are free to stream, so listen to it for nothing if you like!
The album was recorded by superstar producer Jamie Muffett at Threshold Studios in New York City. The snazzy photo that makes up the bulk of the EP cover was shot by artist Jade Phillips.
Also, if you’re feeling generous, you can “like” the Faulkner Detectives Facebook page, or follow us on Twitter.
Thanks!
DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
From Live! In Tune and on Time, 2004.
This live version of a standout track from Endtroducing… isolates the original’s central Bjork loop and lets it ride solo for a while, slowly incorporating the comic monologue and Vangelis synths from the back half of “Stem/Long Stem”. I’ve been harping on minimalist hip-hop lately like a big dork, and this guy here, with its single reverb-laden, 5-note loop buttressed by a drone and a vocal snippet, is so minimal it’s ambient. Definitely closer to Steve Reich than Steinski. Take out the audience noise and you’re floating in space.
Bonus points for that stuttering effect at the end, most likely the result of rapid crossfader action similar to a transformer scratch (with added reverb). It’s a relatively small change that achieves maximum emotional impact due to the ethereal stillness of the rest of the song, like a sleepy starship shifting direction. Or something.
Listening to DJ Shadow has always made me sad, but in a good way somehow!
Neil Gaiman’s Personal Library (The Basement, Neil Gaiman’s Home)
- janet jackson was banned from the grammys for her “nipslip” during the superbowl halftime show
- chris brown was not banned from the grammys for beating his girlfriend so badly she went to the hospital
let’s sit and think about these two facts, and decide whether the producers of the grammys are terrible sexist dickwads or not
simply ridiculous
