A new vid from rx, one of the best pol cut-up artist out there. This one’s “to honor mlk, on the anniversary of his assassination”:
I bought his album, but if youse a cheapskate, he’s got free mp3s, like GWB doin’ “Imagine”:
And speaking of mashups, my fave are by Go Home Productions (Mark Vidler). I like ’em best when the mashed musics make emotionally moving new combos, like in GHP’s “Uptight Maggie” (Stevie Wonder/Rod Stewart):
GHP has been part of several of our Plans. “Strung Out King” (ElvisP rant w/ The Farm music) is a crowd pleaser:
You’ve heard a Ninja explain podcasts, why not an 88 year-old granma on mashups– “Now, before we get our freak on, we need to match up our beats.” (found at WFMU’s BOTB):
Mad props and prunes to DJ Sue Teller (viral marketer?); check out her-space.
And while we’re on an evolutionary theme, from MC Hawking’s Crib, the sci-rap hit, “F*ck the Creationists” (NSFW):
Lately been listening to Clogs. The band is basson, viola, guitar and percussion, w/ occasional voice. Here’s a medley (mp3) from their Lantern CD:
(Found our about Clogs at lissenup and Salon’s Daily Download. Here’s a nice super-8 Clogs video.)
Weekend America ran the HV story “Tin Can Orchestra” by Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler: Bobby Hansson is a phtogrpaher, filmmaker, blacksmith, and tin can artist. He’s created an orchestra of musical instruments from them, and other dumpstered materials. They’ve never been played all together before. Until now, for this radio piece. His book is The Fine Art of the Tin Can: Techniques and Inspirations.
This is Bobby Hansson with his friend Andrew Hayes holding the “sascatuner,” a musical instrument made out of a bicycle seat, two horns, plastic tubing and a trumpet mouthpiece.
This is where Bobby fires the coals for his blacksmithing work. He built the coal forge himself.
Bobby’s blacksmith shop. He built it himself out of old tires, recylced wood and bottles for the windows. To the right,
you can see the speaker where he rigged up a record player to blast
opera music.
Bobby sitting in the kitchen table with his own rendition of American Gothic hanging above him.
Bobby Hansson playing “Big Gray Elephant” on an instrument he made out of a giant maple syrup can (0:29):
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog just posted A Batch of Theremin Videos. There’s Debussey, Saint-Saens, Jon Spencer, and the old man himself, Leon Theremin at age 95.
Two very different videos, both with the same song, both beautiful in their own opposite ways. First, a TV ad for the video game Gears of War:
Next, the music video for the song:
The song’s a cover (improvement) of Tears for Fears “Mad World.” It was done for the Donnie Darko soundtrack (the music video is on the Director’s Cut) — a great flick w/ score by composer & pianist Michael Andrews. The singer is Gary Jules.
That’s Jules and Andrews are on the rooftop of the music vid, which was directed by filmmaker Michel Gondry (Endless Sunshine, Human Nature, Science of Sleep).
In perhaps the first case or reverse censorship, the squeaky clean John Denver turns out to be sex-crazed in Annie’s Song (mp3):
Edited by WFMU DJ Scott Williams; found at WFMUs Beware of the Blog.
Once again I try to get music stuck in my head out, and into yours. This week it’s Samuel L Jackson’s smokin’ cover of the trad Stack-O-Lee (mp3):
It’s from the soundtrack to the movie Black Snake Moan, w/ R L Burnside’s band backing. For you fellow on-air radio types, here’s an edited (de-fuq-ified) FCC-friendly clean mp3, cuz the original sure ain’t.
Found the file at Salon‘s Daily Download, which also linked to the masterful Mississippi John Hurt 1928 vers (mp3 at archive.org):
‘Sides wrangling this here Hearing Voices radio rodeo, for 30 years I’ve also DJ’ed at KGLT-FM. There’s always a few songs I can’t wait to get up there and play, songs I can’t get outta my head; but I’ll try, by putting ’em into yours.
Here’s “La Familia” (mp3) from Mirah’s new CD Joyride: Rexmixes: