Counting down
Apr. 19th, 2006 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaSSBB: nine stories, counting the last-minute extensions. :P I should've gone the conservative route and held onto a few from last time.
More people I know should write for it! It's the rating requirement, no doubt. But if there were no rating requirement you would all turn in G-rated fluff and/or experimental bobbins without so much as a peck on the cheek, I'm very well aware. XD
Here is some music while I scrounge up the yaruki to perform editorial functions:
Gonzales, Feist and Dani - Boomerang 2005: cover of Serge Gainsbourg's "Comme un boomerang". It's sort of... hip-hop. XD I'm not sure how that happened (Feist gets remixed a lot, though, and apparently she's going to guest on Peaches' new album?).
Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous Girl: more on the hip-hop tip. A Nelly Furtado song I actually like! Summery slow jam duet, borderline-NSFW celebration-of-inner-slut lyrics etc. but a romanticism to the chiming chords, the breathless, swooning choired voices.
Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night: is the kind of music in those Jojo-A-Gogo pics, yeah? XD Built off the same fabulous burbly groove as Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic" (or really the other way around).
Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro: speaking of shared grooves, I recently realised this has the same chord progression as the catchy bit in Depeche Mode's "Lillian" - laid out in the pitch-bent filter 'swoop', though it's not the melodic phrase you'd normally pay attention to (since this is a Chris Lowe number there is only one melodic phrase XD). In fact the intro beat is also the same triplet-three-four, so you can sing it ("duhduhduh-dum, duhduhduh-dee") right under Chris's spoken-word ("Passion, love, sex, money...").
YES THIS IS HOW I AMUSE MYSELF OKAY.
Recently I discovered that "paninaro" technically means "eater of panini sandwiches", which... is fairly connotative still, even in English. XD (When PSB wrote the song it was a slang word for a type of young male Italian hipster.)
Ellen Allien and Apparat - Do Not Break: electro/techno/other artist makes broken-beat dansu track for hell of it, deploys lame pun involving word "break" in title (cf. Royksopp): GOOD/BAD? ...I find breakbeat much more immediate than house or techno, actually (often to the point of over-obviousness), but it's probably just me. I like how the sounds approximate vocals without ever actually being vocals. Oh and how it turns into TRANCE right in front of you. XD
Lawrence - Track 1: titles are for the weak. No, really, the CD is untitled and so are all the tracks. There are remixes but you can't tell from discogs which songs are involved. ^^;;; It's one of the most beautiful minimal house albums I've ever heard. This introductory track is Badalamenti-reminiscent, with ominous whistling echos and music box melodies.
Coldcut feat. Robert Owens - Walk A Mile (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
Coldcut feat. Robert Owens - Walk A Mile (Tom Beltons SSL Re-Rub)
The mp3 blog I downloaded the second track from insisted it was the Tiga remix despite the ID3, which it could very well be. I prefer the first remix, though, which starts off slow and Ninja Tune-ish, intricate, organic layers of strings and winds and percussion weaving around each other, only gradually building to a house beat.
More people I know should write for it! It's the rating requirement, no doubt. But if there were no rating requirement you would all turn in G-rated fluff and/or experimental bobbins without so much as a peck on the cheek, I'm very well aware. XD
Here is some music while I scrounge up the yaruki to perform editorial functions:
Gonzales, Feist and Dani - Boomerang 2005: cover of Serge Gainsbourg's "Comme un boomerang". It's sort of... hip-hop. XD I'm not sure how that happened (Feist gets remixed a lot, though, and apparently she's going to guest on Peaches' new album?).
Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous Girl: more on the hip-hop tip. A Nelly Furtado song I actually like! Summery slow jam duet, borderline-NSFW celebration-of-inner-slut lyrics etc. but a romanticism to the chiming chords, the breathless, swooning choired voices.
Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night: is the kind of music in those Jojo-A-Gogo pics, yeah? XD Built off the same fabulous burbly groove as Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic" (or really the other way around).
Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro: speaking of shared grooves, I recently realised this has the same chord progression as the catchy bit in Depeche Mode's "Lillian" - laid out in the pitch-bent filter 'swoop', though it's not the melodic phrase you'd normally pay attention to (since this is a Chris Lowe number there is only one melodic phrase XD). In fact the intro beat is also the same triplet-three-four, so you can sing it ("duhduhduh-dum, duhduhduh-dee") right under Chris's spoken-word ("Passion, love, sex, money...").
YES THIS IS HOW I AMUSE MYSELF OKAY.
Recently I discovered that "paninaro" technically means "eater of panini sandwiches", which... is fairly connotative still, even in English. XD (When PSB wrote the song it was a slang word for a type of young male Italian hipster.)
Ellen Allien and Apparat - Do Not Break: electro/techno/other artist makes broken-beat dansu track for hell of it, deploys lame pun involving word "break" in title (cf. Royksopp): GOOD/BAD? ...I find breakbeat much more immediate than house or techno, actually (often to the point of over-obviousness), but it's probably just me. I like how the sounds approximate vocals without ever actually being vocals. Oh and how it turns into TRANCE right in front of you. XD
Lawrence - Track 1: titles are for the weak. No, really, the CD is untitled and so are all the tracks. There are remixes but you can't tell from discogs which songs are involved. ^^;;; It's one of the most beautiful minimal house albums I've ever heard. This introductory track is Badalamenti-reminiscent, with ominous whistling echos and music box melodies.
Coldcut feat. Robert Owens - Walk A Mile (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
Coldcut feat. Robert Owens - Walk A Mile (Tom Beltons SSL Re-Rub)
The mp3 blog I downloaded the second track from insisted it was the Tiga remix despite the ID3, which it could very well be. I prefer the first remix, though, which starts off slow and Ninja Tune-ish, intricate, organic layers of strings and winds and percussion weaving around each other, only gradually building to a house beat.
