Founded in Hoxton Square on a Saturday afternoon in 2005.
They kick ass.
Even though it’s my own project – it still inspires me…
Universal Mashup Album Cover 2.0
Mashup Albom Cover 2.0
Times have changed and designs too. It is time to update the cover design I’ve made for the different mashup tracks on my iTunes collection.
The Universal Mashup Logo started as an idea to have a unified album cover to the different mashup tracks I have on iTunes.
Since then, I thought that the logo can be used to promote the idea of mashup across different mediums.
‎It could be interesting to see the icon on differnt applications, music videos, websites, and videos to represent the fact that they are taken from different sources (example: thru-you.com, where the creator used unrelated YouTube clips of individual musicians to create a album).
You are free to share and to remix the cover, and you can use the vector graphics to create something new. You can find the SVG file on Wikimedia Commons.
Enjoy.
Monday’s Tune Special: Life on Mars?
Arcade Fire & David Bowie – Life On Mars? (Live at Fashion Rocks)
Greetings!
Life on Mars? is one of David Bowie‘s best and most moving songs. Appeared for the first time on the album Hunky Dory from 1973, BBC Radio 2 later called “a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dalà painting”. The attached version is a recorded performance of David Bowie together with Arcade Fire (featured last week) at Fashion Rocks on 8th September, 2005 in New York. Continue Reading →
Manuel Mera: Reconstruction&Development [videos]
My friend and prominent musician Manuel Mera has published few new instrumental tracks with video clips on his YouTube channel as part of his Reconstruction&Development EP.
The clips are a re-edit of Werner Herzog’s film Lessons of Darkness, which includes imagery concentrates on the aftermath of the first Gulf War.
Track list: Addictive ; Afghanistan ; Buffalo ; Meridian
Monday’s Tune: The Cinematic Orchestra
The Cinematic Orchestra – Man With The Movie camera
The Cinematic Orchestra - Every DayIts seems that Monday's Tune has become a bi-weekly event, instead of every week. I will try to return to normality soon...
Today’s featured tune is by one of my favourite team of musicians, The Cinematic Orchestra, a British-based jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe.
Today’s track is called “Man With The Movie Camera”, from the 2002 album Every Day, released by Ninja Tune [independent record label]. The song was later reworked and was part of a 2003 soundtrack album by The Cinematic Orchestra to a re-released version of the 1929 silent documentary film, Man with a Movie Camera, by Russian director Dziga Vertov.
Man with a Movie Camera movie poster
About the band members, In addition to Swinscoe [from Wikipedia]:
the band includes former DJ Food member Patrick Carpenter on turntables, Luke Flowers (drums), Tom Chant (Saxophone), Nick Ramm (piano), Stuart McCallum (guitar) and Phil France (double bass). Former members include Jamie Coleman (trumpet), T. Daniel Howard (drums), and Alex James (piano). The most recent addition to the band is Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum.
The following video is an edited version of Vertov’s film, released as a music video for the song:
Enjoy!
Monday’s Tune: José González & Radiohead
Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats
José González - Veneer
After a week break for some good times and some sun in Israel, another Monday is upon us.
Today’s main feature is José González, a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter of Argentine descent.
The song ‘Heartbeats’, from his first album, Veneer, is a cover of a song by fellow Swede duo The Knife.
The special for today is Readiohead‘s latest video clip, ‘House of Cards’ [from the album In Rainbows], which was done without lights or cameras, but with the use of a 3d scanner. Released last week, this is a unique collaboration between programmers and musicians, and with Google Code as the Host.
Enjoy!
Monday’s Tune: The Accidental & Imogen Heap
The Accidental – I Can Hear Your Voice
Today’s song is a song by a new and upcoming [nu?] folk band from London, whom I happen to know a quarter of - The Accidental.
From their biography:
Take the man behind The Memory Band and co-founder of Trunk Records (Stephen Cracknell), the twisted songwriter from Tunng (main man Sam Genders), one half of Fence Collective duo The Bicycle Thieves (my friend Hannah Caughlin) and singer-songwriter Liam Bailey. Put them in front of a PC with the help of a few friends and the outcome is new collective The Accidental and their beguiling debut album There Were Wolves.
The song is their second single, ‘I Can Hear Your Voice’, released May 12th.
[There is a wikipedia page now]
The Accidental – I Can Hear Your Voice
the-accidental-i-can-hear-your-voice
Today’s bonus clip is by Imogen Heap, in her song and video “Just For Now”. All done with her voice, her hands and a live sampler and some vocal effects.
Imogen Heap is an English singer-songwriter from Romford, London, most famous for her work as part of Frou Frou and for her 2005 solo record Speak for Yourself, which she wrote, produced and mixed herself. In 2006, she was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Enjoy!
I Met The Walrus
Amazing animated film directed by Josh Raskin and produced by Jerry Levitan in 2007.
Featuring an interview of 14 year old Levitan with John Lennon.
Links: Official site /Â Wikipedia
[via Adam Buxton and Bug]