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Kutiman Mixes YouTube

John Haugeland — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:14:34 +0000

Those of you know know me personally know that I am extremely picky about music: whereas I enjoy nearly every genre, I am very particular about stylistic elements, quality, and skill of execution.

My friend Poffy turned me on to Kutiman Mixes YouTube about an hour ago; I’ve watched it several times before realizing I needed to spread it around. It appears that some guy got a bunch of YouTube videos and mixed them into a video album, compositing the video elements into a barely explicable thing which vascillates between montage, pastiche and 60s-style disoriented spook video.

It’s honestly mindblowing. Speaking as someone thoroughly inured to things like the McRoll and the Windows song by being double oldbear enough to remember the various versions of .MOD, this really still tweaks all my knobs. This isn’t just weird. This is genuine music. It’s good.

This is one an mazing.

The 43 Bands Listed From Adult Swim’s Bump

John Haugeland — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:52:22 +0000

[digg-reddit-me]If you, like me, really dig on some of the Adult Swim bump music but haven’t been able to find it, on one of their recent bumps was listed a number of the bands they’ve been using. I’m reproducing that list here because I couldn’t find it on Google, and that usually means nobody’s written it out yet.

There’s some surprisingly good music in this list. I bought the Dethklok CD, and I just can’t stop listening to it. Almost this entire list is available as DRM-free MP3s from Amazon’s music download service (yay affiliate links). I’m linking the MP3 CDs where I can because they’re way cheaper and I find them more convenient, and frankly I hate ripping my CDs, so why bother, etc. Also, where I know the band, which is a little over half this list and quickly growing, I’m linking specific albums I prefer.

It also helps that the Amazon pages have clips of songs that you can listen to, so if you’re looking for something specific you heard, you might be able to find it (and maybe some other good stuff too) here.

The list:

Amon Tobin – Foley Room and Chaos Theory
Aphex Twin – I Care Because You Do and Richard D. James Album
Boards of Canada – Hi Scores and Music Has The Right to Children
Bonobo – Days to Come and Dial ‘M’ for Monkey
[Chris] Clark – Empty the Bones of You
Chris Devoe – cannot find purchasable albums, so here’s his Discogs Profile
Coldcut – Everything is Under Control and Walk a Mile
Collective Efforts – Possibilities Remix (song) and 3 Dope Verses
Cujo – Adventures in Foam and From the Cellblock to the Booth
DangerDOOM – The Mouse and the Mask
David Banner – The Greatest Story Ever Told and Certified
Dethklok – The Dethalbum
Diplo – Florida
Diverse – One A.M. and Move
Dweezil Zappa – Go With What You Know and Automatic
El-P – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead and Fantastic Damage
Fat Jon – Lightweight Heavy and Afterthought
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles and 1983
Grizzly Bear – Yellow House and Horn of Plenty
Herbalizer – Same as it Never Was
J Dilla – The Shining and Donuts (no, not doughnuts )
J Rocc – Bubbha’s Dance (song) and Cold Heat Funk Mix part 1 (song)
Jackson and his Computer Band – not sold on Amazon, but you can hear it free at his Last.FM page
Jamie Lidell – Jim
Jaylib – Champion Sound and The Red/The Official
Kid Koala – Some of My Best Friends are DJs and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
LFO – Life is Good and Frequencies
Loopdigga – not sold on Amazon, but here’s his Discogs Profile
Luke Vibert – Chicago, Detroit, Redruth and YosepH
Madvillain – Madvillainy
Minamina Goodsong – The Four Farmer Circus and The Transcendental Game of Zen
Nightmares on Wax – Mind Elevation and In a Space Outta Sound
Oh No – The Disrupt and Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms
Peanut Butter Wolf – Let’s Play Doctor and Big Shots
Percee P – Perseverance
Plaid – Spokes and Rest Proof Clockwork
Prefuse 73 – Surrounded By Silence and Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives
Psyche Origami – Is Ellipsis and The Standard
Schooly D – Best of Schooly D
Squarepusher – Hello Everything and Ultravisitor
TTC – Bâtards Sensibles and Ceci N’Est Pas Un Disque
Wildchild – Wildchild and Secondary Protocol
Yesterday’s New Quintet – Angles Without Edges and Yesterday’s Universe: Prepare for a New Yesterday

Quite a list. Lots of good stuff in there. Enjoy.

Yay, Dots!

John Haugeland — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:00:51 +0000

And no, these dots aren’t being agitated. This is a simple visual/auditory demo with delusions of grandeur, but on the other hand, it is surprisingly pretty; very reminiscent of 80s demoscene stuff, back when (insert obviously false nostalgia here.) Granted, this is something of an old news moment, but hey, it’s the first time I saw it, and almost everyone I’ve showed it to thinks it’s new to, so good enough.

On with the show.

8-bit Classy

John Haugeland — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:27:52 +0000

Yum yum. I’m not much for his technique – his finger placement is sloppy, his arches are low, his legato is weak and his staccatto is blurry – but he’s got a hell of a choice of music.

Documentation is Brutal

John Haugeland — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:22:12 +0000

Ye gods. On the one hand, I realize that the documentation for a new company is absolutely critical, both for planning and so that investors can judge potential opportunities. On the other hand, it’s like slow torture.

And I mean, there isn’t really much to say beyond that. Every time I generate a document, there’s two more waiting to be made. It’s kind of like killing Frenchmen in World War One, except without the satisfaction of killing the Frenchmen.

So, today I wrote two two-page documents, another two pages on my gigantic bullet list, I spent another zillion hours on the phone trying to extract simple short answers out of people who don’t seem to know how not to frame “yes” or “no” in sixteen sentences about why, and so on. huhu. Thank god for my one friend Josh, who puts up with enough of my crap to let me put my foot down and not accept Maddenized answers.

On the bright side, I discovered this. Apparently it’s a cut from a longer song by Hard and Phirm, whose album I’m beginning to think about tracking down. I found a wholly obnoxious exerpt from a children’s show that actually plays a big chunk of the rest of the song at Keith Schofield’s page, but there’s this awful bit with children asking extremely (and annoyingly) unlikely questions as a lead-in.

Look, I know it’s annoying. Suffer through it, and while you’re at it, ditch the visual part. You’re in that Schofield page for the song, not the video. The video’s double-crap. But, the song it frames – inexplicably awesome. I totally tranced out repeating it for like 40 minutes. Don’t mind the idiot children playing with a mop or throwing a hat around; it’s disinteresting. The song, though. Unf.