FOOL'S JEWELS

New Blog

2010-12-07T19:45:00.000Z

Paul Dolden

2010-05-05T23:10:00.001+01:00

Good GOODIEPAL Lecture

2010-05-05T13:39:00.000+01:00

GOODIEPAL from Team Video on Vimeo.

D.E.F.

2010-05-04T01:30:00.001+01:00

Alex Hubbard

2010-05-03T13:51:00.002+01:00

Videos via UBU

Petula Clark

2010-05-02T00:34:00.002+01:00

WE HAVE THAT F#ing Eventide H 8000

2010-05-01T23:23:00.001+01:00

Ariel Pink Video Demo

2010-04-24T00:39:00.001+01:00

Actually enjoying the music, forthcoming album could be good.

HEY! HEY! HEY!

2010-04-20T22:52:00.001+01:00

Spike Jonze Co-Direction

2010-04-19T22:55:00.001+01:00

Toys and Techniques

2010-04-14T13:30:00.003+01:00

VERY GOOD BLOG CHECK IT OUT

TV

2010-04-12T14:49:00.001+01:00

Also Very Good

2010-04-05T18:50:00.003+01:00

More Library Music from the Dusty Shelf blog.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

More Simon Park

2010-04-05T17:11:00.004+01:00

In fact it's his follow up to 1981's "Superdoop".

Really one of the best library music composers, his albums actually feel like standalone releases.

This one however is sold as "Exciting, dramatic sounds for electronic synthesizers".

HIGH CLIMBER VIA THE AWESOME DUSTY SHELF

POINTLESS UPDATE:

Track B5, "Coaster", is sampled by Quasimoto (aka Madlib) in The Further Adventures of Lord Quas, for the track Don't Blink.
Just heard it and I'm sure.
He barely even does anything with it!

Cool Plot

2010-04-04T17:45:00.000+01:00

The lyrics of "Say Somethin'" describe two people being introduced at a nightclub. They begin to experience mutual lust, however, each is waiting for the other to first express their feelings for one another. Eventually, the woman becomes irritated and takes the initiative ("If it's worth your while, say somethin', say somethin'"). The man reveals that the song was produced by the Neptunes and then proposes a joint-visit to the restroom to engage in a quickie; it is not revealed whether or not the woman accepts.

Via Wiki

Jeffrey Isaac

2010-04-04T15:45:00.001+01:00

Tons of weird shit all on one website.

I recommend his Anatomical Shorts.

CHECK IT OUT

Perfume - ナチュラルに恋して

2010-03-29T05:32:00.002+01:00

Nice fake moonwalking too!

Vocal Writer

2010-03-29T01:42:00.001+01:00

Bigger and better in Japan under the name "Vocaloid" this is a budget/shareware version of a similar thing.

WEBSITE

MP3 DEMOS

COMPUTER SCATTING SERIOUSLY CHECK IT OUT

Thanks Eno (Not Brian)

2010-03-29T01:40:00.000+01:00

Max Tundra Remixes

2010-03-24T15:31:00.000Z

HERE NICE

Brilliant

2010-03-24T01:26:00.002Z

"CONTROL" BY JANET JACKSON (1986)

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis great production.

NOT MY LINK WOOOOO

Nice Station

2010-03-07T01:26:00.001Z

CGM UK DEMOSCENE RADIO

Ben Jones

2010-03-04T20:14:00.003Z

This guy is one third of Paper Rad and also in PFFR, two very good things!

Cute interview HERE plus check out his Adult Swim commissioned video Neon Knome HERE (loads of other great videos there too).

Myles Cooper

2010-03-04T20:10:00.000Z

VIA TRANSPARENT

Music Science

2010-03-03T17:16:00.000Z

REALLY GOOD CONTINUO POST

Plastic Beach

2010-03-03T15:03:00.001Z

New Gorillaz album.

FIRST VIDEO

FULL ALBUM STREAM

Not that good.

Casa

2010-02-25T17:31:00.000Z

Somehow has a ridiculous 55,702,900 views.

Jokes

2010-02-24T16:06:00.002Z

INFO

Charles Dodge

2010-02-22T20:32:00.001Z

SYNTHESIZED VOICES (1976)

EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD (1971)

Really great and surprisingly accessible early computer music.

Not my links, probably vinyl rips from 36 15 MOOG although I found them via Google.

VG Museum

2010-02-21T17:40:00.013Z

VG MUSEUM

More VintageCG

2010-02-16T23:46:00.001Z

Vol Libre

2010-02-16T15:42:00.001Z

Loads of great videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/VintageCG

Whitney Brothers

2010-02-15T22:26:00.001Z

Another Mr. Zolon Mix

2010-02-15T21:20:00.004Z

Made by a friend but a genuinely good mix VIA SWEET AND SOUND

Check out http://soundcloud.com/mrzolon too.

Down Town

2010-02-12T13:04:00.003Z

Really great cover by a duo called The Same.
I probably particularly like it because of the Casion VL-1 used.

CHECK IT OUT

Taken from an extremely recent post by Continuo, where you can find the B-side and cover art if you want.

Lambs Anger

2010-02-08T18:17:00.003Z

Great:

NOT MY LINK FUCKING HILARIOUS ALBUM!

Slow Dance

2010-02-08T13:55:00.000Z

NOT MY LINK BUT TOTALLY COOL

DE DE MOUSE

2010-02-03T23:26:00.003Z

DEDEMOUSE’s emotional and lyrical performance always fanaticizes the crowd. Its melody evokes a long forgotten image, and its arrange has both ‘healing power’ and ‘thrill.’ DEDEMOUSE does not stop to exert its power as a pop wizard. What waits in the path? You'd better not miss it.

MYSPACE

Dekotora

2010-02-03T13:46:00.002Z

WIKI

FILM

GAME

Fuck Everything

2010-02-01T11:40:00.001Z

Okay...

2010-01-30T20:58:00.007Z

Loads of stuff in one post.

THE TAPE-BEATLES

ANOTHER FILM BY RYAN TRECARTIN

NEW CEEPHAX ACID KREW ALBUM
- PUT UP BY GOOD BLOG THE POP STALINIST

DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS R KELLY SONG TILL FAIRLY RECENTLY

GOOD FOOTAGE OF "CITY LIFE" BY STEVE REICH
- NICE SAMPLING

SU-CHA-KA

SEXY LIGHTNING

SONGS IN THE KEY OF Z (OUTSIDER MUSIC COMPILATION)

TEMPORARY DOWNLOADS OF MUSIC BY DAN HARLE

NEW CARIBOU TRACK

PROBABLY THE BEST/MOST IMMENSE ARCHIVE OF MUSIC ONLINE, PERHAPS EMPHASIZED BY THE TEDIOUS TRACK-BY-TRACK DOWNLOAD SYSTEM

Have fun!

Rustie

2010-01-16T20:51:00.002Z

Friends with Hudson Mohawke, although you could tell that just from his music.
Their stuff is almost too similar really, but I like it so it doesn't really matter!

Here's a track of his called "Inside Pikachu's Cunt":

MEDIAFIRE

He's just been signed to Warp and I think he'll have a proper release out this year.

MYSPACE

Novelty

2010-01-14T22:11:00.001Z

Some Good Bits

2010-01-13T12:29:00.002Z

(Tony Senghore Remix)

Fuck Ke$ha

2010-01-12T23:16:00.003Z

Okay so that title is basically just hiding an Uffie post, but it is weird how much Ke$ha sounds like Uffie. Quite a bit of amusing stuff can be found by googling the issue.

Anyway, so Uffie is eventually releasing her debut album this Valentine's Day.
The Mr. Oizo produced lead-up EP/single MC's Can Kiss isn't amazing, but it's pretty funny.
A lot of her songs are amusingly reckless in one way or another.
MC's Can Kiss ends with her saying:

"...to travel the whole world/To do all kinds of stuff/I even tried out to play the saxophone/And you'll be the first one to hear how it sounds..."

Followed by a truly shit sax solo playing for ages as the track fades out.

Good outro, genuinely.

MC'S CAN KISS

And here's an older track (2007):

FIRST LOVE

Nam June Paik Images

2010-01-12T14:56:00.010Z

LINK

Mater Suspiria Vision

2010-01-12T00:58:00.003Z

Friends with How I Quit Crack.
Together they are taking this blog on a bit of a bizarre detour.

MYSPACE LINK

How I Quit Crack

2010-01-12T00:43:00.005Z

Not really a fan, but I stumbled across this on myspace and couldn't not share.

Full points for effort/vision though.

Way, way more videos and recordings on HER MYSPACE.

UPDATE:

INTERVIEW WITH VICE

Free DP Download

2010-01-12T00:37:00.001Z

Selected Library Music

2010-01-11T22:35:00.005Z

-
"Pool" - Simon Park

"Strangelands" - Alan Hawksaw

"Press On 2" - Brian Bennett & Dave Lawson

"After The Silence" - Mark Shreeve

PALS

2010-01-09T23:20:00.001Z

One Day

2010-01-09T23:09:00.003Z

Kinda lame, but I do like this track.

Good strings.

Sounds a bit like Metronomy too actually.

DOWNLOAD ANYONE?

NJS

2010-01-09T22:57:00.004Z

Some (more) New Jack Swing, almost directly inspired by this great mixtape.

Off On Your Own (Girl) - Al B. Sure!

Nite and Day - Al B. Sure!

I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd (pictured)

Plunderphonic

2010-01-09T22:52:00.003Z

I like this "version" of Dolly Parton's The Great Pretender, rendered kinda dumb by John Oswald.

MEDIAFIRE

Apiento Remix

2010-01-09T22:42:00.003Z

Not a fan of Apiento's other remixes, but I really like this one of "Excellent Birds".

I guess the original song is a pretty good starting point.

There's an amazing video for it at the beginning of that amazing "international satellite installation" I posted a while back.

HERE'S THE REMIX THOUGH

Top Selling

2010-01-09T22:32:00.002Z

Key numbers released
by Nielsen SoundScan:

Top-selling albums of 2009
1	"Fearless," Taylor Swift	3,217,000
2	"I Dreamed a Dream," Susan Boyle	3,104,000
3	"Number Ones," Michael Jackson	2,355,000
4	"Fame," Lady Gaga	2,238,000
5	"My Christmas," Andrea Bocelli	2,207,000
6	"Hannah" movie soundtrack, Hannah Montana	1,823,000
7	"E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)," Black Eyed Peas	1,787,000
8	"Relapse," Eminem	1,735,000
9	"Blueprint 3," Jay-Z	1,515,000
10	"Only by the Night," Kings of Leon	1,398,000
Top-selling albums of decade
1	"Beatles 1," Beatles	11,564,000
2	"No Strings Attached," 'N Sync	11,113,000
3	"Come Away With Me," Norah Jones	10,579,000
4	"Marshall Mathers LP," Eminem	10,216,000
5	"Eminem Show," Eminem	9,818,000
6	"Confessions," Usher	9,730,000
7	"Hybrid Theory," Linkin Park	9,697,000
8	"Human Clay," Creed	9,495,000
9	"Oops! ... I Did It Again," Britney Spears	9,185,000
10	"Country Grammar," Nelly	8,464,000
Top-selling artists of the decade
1	Eminem	32,241,000
2	Beatles	30,182,000
3	Tim McGraw	24,769,000
4	Toby Keith	24,469,000
5	Britney Spears	22,969,000
6	Kenny Chesney	22,034,000
7	Linkin Park	21,421,000
8	Nelly	21,232,000
9	Creed	20,594,000
10	Jay-Z	20,424,000

Who's Tim McGraw?

Who's Toby Keith?

Who's buying all the Creed?

LINK

Robert Breer

2010-01-08T19:13:00.003Z

GO UBU

MR. ZOLON MIX

2009-12-19T16:58:00.003Z

CHECK IT OUT

JET SET LIFESTYLE - MISTY ZOLON

ONE MAN WOMAN - QUINCY JONES

GET ON TEH FLOOR - MIKE JACKSON

JUST BE URESELF - CAMEO

BACK AND FORTH - CAMEO

FLIRT - CAMEO

THE LOVER IN YOU - SUGAR HILL GANNNNG

NEVER SAY DIE - CLEF RICHARD

PERCUSSION ON THE GO - MIKE MORAN

DEMAGOGOS - JOXAREN

HURME - VC

LES PINGUINS L'AMUSANT - VARIOUS ARTISTS

SEX CONTINUUM - MRS. QUAEDA

ENDLESS RACE - WALLY BADAROU

FLEXXY-BALL THEME - FLEXX

NEW SONG - HOWARD JOENS

MUSIC TAKES YOU - BLAME

DOLLARS - PAUL B. DAVIS

ZOOO000M000000OM - HUDSON MOHAWK

PLAY - JENNIFER LOPEZ (WITH SKWEE INTERLUDE)

PON' DE FLOOR - MAJOR LAAAAAAAAAAAYZRRRR

WHEN YOU HEAR THE BASSLINEEEEEE - MAAAJOOOOR LAAAAAZEEERRRRR

VOID VISION - CYBER PEOPLE

SOLAR - BINARY GHOST

POOL - SIMON PARK

Good Film

2009-12-11T00:34:00.001Z

Dirty Projectors, November 22, 2009 Bowery NYC

2009-12-09T21:16:00.004Z

Nice recording of a very recent gig.

Saw them live fairly recently and the arrangements for some songs have already changed quite a lot.

The Roots feature on two tracks but it's a bit pointless and David Byrne is just sounds lost on the Knotty Pine collab which unfortunately ends the show.

GET IT HERE THOUGH SOME REALLY COOL VERSIONS OF SONGS

Bob Brown

2009-12-09T20:58:00.007Z

THREE TRACKS BY BOBBY BROWN

Girl Next Door

Every Little Step

Roni

SOUNDS SO GOOD

Jet Set Mix

2009-11-22T18:49:00.003Z

PART ONE - 14 minutes

Rising 5 - Hudson Mohawke

Zapz - Misty Forest

Sega Rally

Let's Be Adult - Ambitious Lovers

(John Oswald link)

Pop The Glock (Slowed Down) - Uffie

Domino Dance - Logic System

PART TWO - 13 minutes

Superdoop - Simon Park (Library Music)

(Pachelbel's Canon in D-major - ALF System link)

Gluetooth - Hudson Mohawke

Lightworks - Raymond Scott

Sweet Tooth - R Kelly

Night School - Frank Zappa

PART THREE - 14 minutes

Too Much Pressure - Dirty Projectors + Sidetrack

Green Light - Beyoncé (Misty Forest Mix)

FUSE - Hudson Mohawke

Electric Bamber-boo - Bun Butler and his Mouse Pad

PART FOUR - 11 minutes

Shiz Ko E - The Tuss (Aphex Twin)

(gz50m_mallet link)

(Misty synth link)

Pizza Boy - Tim and Eric

Pro-Motion - Alan Hawkshaw (Library Music)

Soles Sweat (Instrumental) (Sped Up) - Debruit

DVNO (Sped Up) - Justice

PART FIVE - 7 minutes

Secret Entrance - Mr Zolon and Misty Forest

Adult Games - Randy Barracuda & Mesak

Ice Cream (Slowed Down) - Muscles

DOWNLOAD

Norman McLaren

2009-11-22T13:01:00.002Z

Gets particularly interesting at 2:50

Posted a really good animation of his quite a long time ago.

OTT

2009-11-21T21:59:00.001Z

Misty Forest Time

2009-11-14T19:24:00.000Z

DOWNLOAD SONG

Summer of Love

2009-11-12T19:48:00.001Z

Dumb Inevitable Awesome

2009-11-12T19:33:00.003Z

www.myspace.com/rarecandyband

Check Out "Trainer Battle - Gym Battle".

4:47

2009-11-08T15:01:00.000Z

Karel Appel

2009-10-30T14:39:00.001Z

From UBU

Captain EO

2009-10-30T00:54:00.002Z

Part 2 is particularly cool:

MONEY HUNT

2009-10-28T11:16:00.000Z

Ryan Trecartin

2009-10-27T22:34:00.001Z

Completely insane.

From UBU

Overnight Romancin'

2009-10-26T18:41:00.001Z

DEBRUIT

2009-10-26T18:38:00.006Z

MYSPACE

Washed Out

2009-10-20T22:01:00.005+01:00

HIS MYSPACE

(HIS BLOG)

Even though there's really a lot of suspiciously trendy, nostalgic (1980s), lo-fi music around, this stood out for me, or maybe it just clicked.

His biggest track "Feel It All Around" makes use of this, which is quite funny. (Good idea to slow it down).

Beirut Outtakes

2009-10-20T19:55:00.001+01:00

By Peggy Ahwesh

Spike Jonze Direction

2009-10-20T19:41:00.001+01:00

Beach Boys A Cappella

2009-10-20T00:18:00.001+01:00

Construction

2009-10-20T00:12:00.000+01:00

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

Hausu

2009-10-19T18:43:00.001+01:00

Original post

Cory Arcangel Ideas

2009-10-19T18:33:00.003+01:00

PDF

Speaking Piano

2009-10-15T23:54:00.005+01:00

DETAILS

Ambitious Lovers

2009-09-30T23:18:00.004+01:00

ENVY (1984)

GREED (1988)

When The World Comes To An End

2009-09-30T11:27:00.000+01:00

More info and a downloadable MP3 at Stereogum.

Malek Khorshid

2009-09-26T19:45:00.002+01:00

I really like dated animations with surreal and very interpretable plotlines.

So I enjoyed this 1975 animation by Ali Akbar Sadeghi.

There's something quite videogame-like about the whole thing too.

Courtesy of UBU again.

The Finger

2009-09-26T19:28:00.002+01:00

It's just a relatively cheap plug-in enabling you to play around with sound in loads of ways using different keys to trigger different effects and editing techniques.

Kind of ridiculous how easy and accessable it will make all of that stuff, but that's probably a good thing!

LOOK

Saying that, for it to be fully customisable you've got to run it through Reaktor, which is relatively hardcore territory.

Hudson Mohawke Interview

2009-09-25T01:28:00.002+01:00

Look at him he's just a boy!

Good Morning Mr. Orwell

2009-09-25T00:51:00.005+01:00

Amazing video from 1984 led by Nam June Paik.

Played on New Year's Day and presented live by various people across the globe, so there are some awkward live moments but it's filled with amazing people and graphics.

More info at UBU.

Logic System

2009-09-24T13:38:00.004+01:00

At risk of just being a filter of Mutant Sounds (which would actually be quite useful in a way), I found a really good post they did earlier this year on Logic System (aka this guy, who did loads of sound programming for the Yellow Magic Orchestra).

In my opinion the first album is better than the second one but they're both HERE.

Good, quite dancey, melodic, 1981, Japanese, pretty fashionable...

Library Music

2009-09-24T13:05:00.002+01:00

Companies hire composers to write music, the music is then fully owned by the companies who can easily licence the music, which is useful for people who make television etc.

There are quite a few blogs dedicated to spreading library music, and the amount that was made is incredible.

They were never available for public sale, so blogging them is sort of the only way for them to really exist nowadays.

A lot of of the composers who were involved are fairly anonymous in the sense that it's hard to find out much about them even if the names are clearly labelled, although I think some of them might have used pen names, and there are a few cases of musicians who did this sort of work for a bit to make money then became famous for other things.

As I said there are a lot of blogs dedicated to Library Music but the one that seems to have the most consistent results is The Library Hunt.

This is also to do with the fact that all of the posts are quite clear about what style of music each collection holds.

Saying that, the records themselves had to have quite clear titles for commercial reasons.

Two particularly good ones I've come across are "High Tension" and "Thrills and Spills", both from the company Bruton Music.

I've also uploaded the title track from this alb um by Simon Park.

It's a bit different to some of the other tracks I've come across in the sense that it's less atmospheric and a bit more like a wacky instrumental pop song.

CHECK IT OUT

More Mario

2009-09-21T00:01:00.001+01:00

DanielRadcliffe777

2009-09-20T14:51:00.001+01:00

Many Many Women

2009-09-18T15:20:00.007+01:00

Petr Kotik

Many Many Women

Text by Gertrude Stein

S.E.M. Ensemble

3 hours and 35 minute excerpt

"The recording is an edited version of the complete 6-hour long performance. The nature of the music makes it impossible to to repeat and correct various passages, therefore, the recording proceeded despite occasional lapses and mistakes, impossible to avoid in a live performance. The recordings (two complete performances) were edited and combined by discarding parts, not acceptable for a record release."

Written in the late 70s and recorded in 1980 by Petr Kotik's own ensemble, Many Many Women was apparently respected within certain circles, but is definitely not famous, and the same pretty much goes for composer Petr Kotik.

I heard one of his compositions (via this) and really liked it, so tried to get hold of his "magnum opus" but found it extremely difficult.

Ended up finding it on eBay and it involved a fairly extreme price and shipping distance but it got here eventually.

I definitely feel that it was worth sharing via the blog for that fact alone!

I still haven't listened to it in it's entirety but I'm impressed.

It's got a pretty much non-stop use of parallel fifths, which is a hardcore approach to melody and harmony, but I think it works.

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

Here is quite a nice review with good photos and anecdotal details.

Artikulation

2009-09-17T15:41:00.001+01:00

Hot Troche

2009-09-16T11:37:00.003+01:00

My parents got a few CDs for me when they went to Japan last year.

Quite a lot of it was fairly extreme electronic stuff that they had never heard of, like this album Munaa Poyu by Hot Troche which I didn't really like at first.

Listened to it recently though and actually now I really like it!

Still quite extreme though, there's a quote online (which could be a joke) about it containing "approximately 700 hours of music compressed".

It does remind me of these guys as well as maybe more obviously this guy.

Impressively, the blog Mutant Sounds have beat me to uploading this by about a year, so download it from there.

Dirty Talk

2009-09-16T01:04:00.002+01:00

MIDI Player Piano

2009-09-15T19:19:00.002+01:00

Jeff Stolet using an infared sensor to trigger MIDI algorithms which are then sent to a player piano.

Taken from Deviant Synth.

Ascending Melody

2009-09-15T18:58:00.002+01:00

Coming out in two weeks on their Temecula Sunrise EP.

Muse

2009-09-15T15:52:00.002+01:00

Muse are so shit it's insane.

However, in anticipation of their new album which has just been released, loads of fans put up fake versions of what they thought the final tracks (the Muse penned Exogenesis Symphony) would sound like, which sort of brings the "Muse sound" to a new level.

Here are just two of them:

Instant Sampling

2009-09-15T13:20:00.004+01:00

Check it out!

Hours of fun!