Broove yourself

Chill, turn your volume up and broove yourself 

Found this guy on Newgrounds whilst playing this game.

Turns out Newgrounds has some kick ass musicians. Gotta be honest I'd only really used it for games and the odd animation up until recently. But there's an awesome community and it's a good platform to get your music/artwork/animations reviewed.

Check it:

Haven't posted any music in a while..

Here's some Deadmau5 to listen to whilst you're blogging today. It's a 10 minute song so just leave it running while you post/read :)

Enjoy!

Headphones

So during my 6 cups of coffee, musical marathon last night my headphones finally gave out. Which meant that I had an excuse to sleep, but also that I needed new headphones...

In light of this I picked up a pair of these badboys today:

I was torn between these and a pair of Aerial7 Chopper2's which had a better frequency response but a slightly lower sensitivity. I'm also not familiar with Aerial7 so I decided on the old faithful Sennheiser, having had good experiences with them in the past.

They boast "high attenuation passive noise canceling", which isn't all that effective but I'm still fairly impressed with it, although it's nothing compared to a good set of high-end AudioTechnica or Bose cans, (who both had the noise canceling thing pretty well nailed) I couldn't really expect much more while still paying under $200.

Good points:

• Nice, level frequency response with a good range of 18 - 22,000 Hz. (we can hear between 20 - 20,000) Level frequency response is good for critical listening, composition and studio work.
• Decent passive noise canceling, but nothing to write home about. This is helped by the full ear coverage though, as opposed to smalled headphones that just kinda float on your ear and allow a lot of sound to leak in.
• Very comfortable fit covering the whole ear with a good range of extension.
• 3m lead which is a pretty perfect length for my room.
• Sennheiser headphones have notoriously good engineering and will last a good few years if treated nicely.
• Lead only hangs on one side which is handy. 
• They don't make me look like a Skull Candy faggot.

Iffy things:

•  Noise canceling is only passive, I can still hear the vietnamese lady next door when she gets particularly riled up.
• The lead, while long, seems a bit flimsy. I don't really trust it being handled roughly.
• Instead of increasing my productivity by allowing me to listen to my work they have so far lowered my work-rate by prompting me to write this post...

Now that that's out of the way, time for more coffee.

Peace.
X

As promised, Mint Royale :)

So you've probably seen this:



And maybe this:



Their version of Singin' In The Rain has gotta be their best known track. But Mint Royale's other music is 1. Often overlooked, and 2. Sweeeet.

One of my favourite albums ever after the break, check it >>

Woop Woop!

Some lovely Mint Royale to get you through the day.
More Mint Royale in my next post after class!

Yoko Kanno

It would be wrong of me to talk about music without including Yoko Kanno.

She is probably my favourite and most listened to composer of recent years. Best known for her soundtrack of the BEST. ANIME. EVER. Cowboy Bebop. (Seriously, if you haven't watched all of it... then stop wasting your time reading blogs and go catch up.) She also contributed soundtracks for, to name a few, Ghost In The Shell, Macross, Wolf's Rain, Escaflowne, Darker than BLACK, and Gundam. Her list of compositions and attributions is pretty damn impressive. See her anime news network page here. Or if you can read Japanese you can visit her um... interestingly coloured official site here.

music and links after the break >>>

Prog anybody?

This is my most listened to album of the lats year. One of my room mates at Uni last semester just kinda left the CD in my room and I proceeded to get addicted to it. These two tracks literally blew me away:




Streams was the first track I listened to all the way through on the album. It's placed brilliantly between two nicely contrasting tracks and makes the album smoothly follow the story they are trying to tell.

Celestial Elixir is the final track on the album. It brilliantly incorporates themes from the rest of the CD as well as a bunch of superbly placed musical jokes and mind numbingly awesome newly introduced riffs and melodies (it starts to settle down at about 4:00, then blew my mind at 4:55).

(part1)                              (part 2)


more>>

More Lemon Jelly!

My last post kinda got me in the mood.. So, I'll just showcase a few of my favourite Lemon Jelly tracks.

Again, I'd suggest following THIS LINK and checking them out on we7.

First off, possibly my favourite of their livelier tracks (in contention with King Raam):



One of Jelly's forte's has got to be simply chilling the hell out.

"Spacewalk" and "Come" really work well with a cold beer and a sunny sky..

 

For some related listening check out Mr Scruff. His music isn't quite as available on we7 but there's plenty elsewhere:






 Maybe some more music in the morning I think


Enjoy.

Lemon Jelly

So Ive been listening to this album on repeat for about a week now.. Literally can't get enough of it :)

The whole thing is available on www.we7.com but here's one of my favourite tracks

Free music - His Majesty King Raam