My brother and I formed "Le Dernier Combat" last year. This was our first live gig, check out our Myspace Page!
17.1.09
Le Dernier Combat - Shinkendo (Live)
The Trons: A band of Rockin’ Robots
The Trons, a band of robot musicians, is performing alongside The Arctic Monkeys and Neil Young at the Big Day Out festival in Auckland, New Zealand. Controlled by software and mechanical parts, the popular band is set to impress crowds with the complete lack of human presence! Continue reading...
16.1.09
Mastodon, Death Row Records, Fender
Toyota Scion promotes metal bands, Death Row Records gets bought up by Canadian firm WIDEawake Entertainment, Fender studies say music games encourage kids towards wanting to play real instruments. Check out today’s Round Up! Read more...
Rock Band Wii, Warner Music, Wikipedia
Rock Band Wii gets its own music store, how Warner Music killed Facebook music, and Wikipedia gets ready for a digital media explosion, all in today’s Round Up! Continue reading...
Gorillaz Record in Syria for Next Release
Gorillaz front men, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, announced that in March they will be collaborating with Arabic musicians in Syria for their, as yet untitled, follow-up to 2005’s ‘Demon Days’. Continue reading...
Ryan Adams Takes Time Away From Music
In an extended blog post, Ryan Adams disclosed that he would be taking leave from The Cardinals indefinitely. On the bands website he explains that March 20 in Atlanta will be his last performance with the band, and gives insight into the problems for an artist in the music industry. Continue reading...
15.1.09
User-Created Youtube Videos get Muted
As previously reported by Mashable, YouTube has started muting videos that utilize unauthorized copyrighted music, which encompasses most user-created videos. Affected clips have an official notice underneath declaring unauthorized content, here is the clip pictured. However, the Youtube official blog states that they are giving users the option to mute their own videos, rather than automatically taking them down. Continue reading...
Thom Yorke in Grammys Publicity Campaign
Radiohead vocalist Thom Yorke has lent his image to the Grammy Awards publicity campaign. Yorke’s poster ad is a reproduction of his face, construed out of the names of songs, lyrics, albums and artists that influenced him over the years. The ad has been divulged, along with other ads featuring Coldplay, Kanye West, and Lil Wayne. Continue reading...
“Osbournes: Reloaded” this Spring
The Ozzy Osbourne family will be back on TV, with the show “Osbournes: Reloaded”, later this spring on Fox. Six shows of new footage have been shot for the series, with more to come depending on audiences. Continue reading...
Music Label Partners with Torrent Site
Open Your Eyes Records is working with What.cd, a site that distributes torrent files, to use peer-to-peer technology as their method of distribution. A bizarre twist for music industry rationale, this may prove to be a new way to deal with file-sharing sites, while taking advantage of their powerful distribution. Continue reading...
14.1.09
ManiaTV Follows Artists as They Create Albums
The new show “Making the Music” from online content studio ManiaTV is going to follow Scoop Deville throughout the creation of his album. During the show the producer will upload previews of tracks online, to be voted and commented upon by viewers. The finished tracks then go on sale on iTunes, and ManiaTV gets a cut of the money. Continue reading...
Guitar Hero III first game to reach $1 billion in sales
Publisher Activision has made over $1 billion with a single title, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, becoming the first video game ever to reach that mark in sales. A year after Activision announced that the entire franchise Guitar Hero had surpassed $1 billion, yet another record is set by the video-game industry. Continue reading...
13.1.09
Radiohead, Sonic Youth, O.C., Sundance, Gallows
Radiohead re-releases on vinyl, Sonic Youth is almost finished with their album, Indie bands are starting to play live in TV shows, and Gallows announces their newest UK tour. All in today’s round up! Read more...
New Software Predicts the Next Hits
The newest software from Diagnos, dubbed Hitlab, can calculate if your song is a hit or not! Comparing 78 variables, like chord progressions and vocal timbre, with the top Billboard hits of the past six years, the algorithm gives tracks what they call a Dynamic Hit Score. Hitlab founder, Tomas Gauthier, says top-scoring tracks are also the top-selling ones on Apple’s iTunes music store 70% to 80% of the time. Continue reading...iTunes Plus Arrives Without Copy-Protection
Apple has launched iTunes Plus, highlights include tracks without copy-protection, high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding and cross-platform support. Read more...
11.1.09
Geskia - Silent 77 Review
Read full article at Noripcord
Hailing from Japan, Geskia surprises the Electronica scene with their debut album Silent 77, released by Flaü. Mixing organic-sounding yet assumed electronica with hip hop and technical breakbeat, Geskia stands among Minotaur Shock, Four Tet, Autechre, cLOUDEAD and Boards of Canada as one of the leading artists in the alternative electronica genre.
Silent 77 starts off slow: dense hip hop beats, permeated with layers of fuzz and experimental sounds in 2Hour/Seahoses and Were Saw. Sound quality and unique sampling, coupled with a high beat-per-minute, post-IDM fizzle is elegant, and would make the experience almost light headed if it weren’t for the heavy kick downtempo, the one that makes your head want to bob on its own.The over-programmed feeling doesn’t stop in We Are, 3days Trial, and even though every sound is somehow twisted and modified somehow, the beat always sinks in. It gives the album a track to run on, a certain flow. Passages between songs, the transition from happy to sad composition and simple beats to complex never feels contrived, or on purpose even, it’s just one complete masterpiece. Sampling ranges from piano and vocals in Second Coming, to strings and metallic clicks in Right Lights. Some of the more organic samples repeat, akin to Minotaur Shock, others are based on algorithms in the vein of Autechre, and still others are painstakingly programmed from scratch like Squarepusher. Fall Fall, twelfth on the album, is a perfect example of beauty while in a very complex context of rhythm and dense programming. As the album comes to a close with heavy hitters Over The Three Rainbows, and Windowpane Stencil, the message becomes apparent, Silent 77 is an album based upon both ambiance and technical prowess. The different layers in the music, some complex, others less, can appeal to all listeners, and the album is worth several listens to try to grasp all of them. The music flies by, uncaring if you caught all the details. However, not concentrating too hard on the music, and letting it travel into lower levels of consciousness is also notably soothing. It’s perfect for any occasion.
Top-notch post-production, worthy of comparison with 4AD releases, certainly gives an extra advantage to Silent 77. Meticulous placement of frequencies, left right stereo shifts for specific samples and sound tinkering are used frequently and simultaneously, all helped by remarkable post-production. Special attention was given to each and every sample, and tracking those minute fluctuations is rewarding, for many sub-melodies and hidden layers of composition can be plucked.
In Endrole, Silent 77's closing track, flutes play in the distance and the experience is dramatically over. Calm and mellow, while solid and rhythmic, Geskia makes music easy and complex at the same time and is highly recommended to all. Get it here.
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