Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

Have you heard of Chatroulette?

If not, you must have been on a really long vacation (I envy you).

Anyway, this will be probably the best thing done with Chatroulette. Anything else is most probably either the waste of time or slightly amusing.

Wake up! It’s yet again time for the Tune of the week!

This is the hip-hop as it’s supposed to be made and listened to in 2010. Forget Usher, 50cent and all that generic, manufactured sh!t - you need to get into this music.

Ty pushes the envelope yet again!

What you’re seeing above is a musical installation composed (pun intended) out of electric guitars rigged to distortion effects and birds flying around them and plucking the guitar wires. The author of the installation is Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at it could have been seen in action at Barbican Centre, London.

Now I believe in a theory that Neil Young used a similar technique to make the soundtrack for the seminal Jim Jarmusch acid western movie “Dead man”. Sorry for the abundance of links. If you understand the context, you’ll understand why it’s important. ;-)

[via BarbicanLondon and ideasareawesome]

How often do you hear soul neosoul, hip-hop and orchestral music fused into one?

I bet you never did! Well, here you go - it’s possible and the results are mesmerizing.

You need some background info on this: The original version of this tune comes from Dwele (voice and lyrics) and J-Dilla (production), orchestra is conducted by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, while this re-enactment comes around the time of the 3th anniversary of Dilla’s untimely passing. I’ll quote Moovmnt for the rest: “At Mochilla, they’ve spent the past year working on A Suite for Ma Dukes. Until now they only released videos of entirely instrumental pieces, but today – in homage to the man responsible for all this – they have released the first vocal performance from SFMD. Detroit singer Dwele sang the classic “A.N.G.E.L.” that night without rehearsal, but with Miguel Atwood-Furguson’s beautiful arrangements.” FYI, Miss “Ma Dukes” Yancey is J Dilla’s mother who since Dilla’s passing has been fighting for J Dilla’s legacy and with the same ailment.

[via Moovmnt]

Tune of the week is a wonderful tune that encompasses all those moments of love and affection.

This lovely song has been taken from Blackmagic EP from José James accompanied by another wonderful voice of Jordana Faith de Lory a.k.a. Jordana de Lovely. The release comes from Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings music label.

If you like this tune, you may want to check out my other tunes of the week.

[via Gilles Peterson and souljah309]

ideasareawesome:

Techno Jeep

I want a real-object-sampled-music genre and a top 10 chart derived from people blogging/tweeting about the best tunes. :-)

Jojo Mayer & Nerve - Jabon

You’re bound to be mind blown, at least the first time around.

Seeing Jojo Mayer playing drums is believing. Once upon a time (around 2000) the open-minded Jojo wanted to try playing drum’n’bass, altering loops and was pleasantly surprised with the result. I must say, I’m amazed with the result.

There’s a video explaining what he does and another one telling the story how it all started and how he manages to play like an improvising drum machine. What he did, Jojo recalls, is - reverse engineering. That’s actually a suitable term known to software developers denoting a process of reconstructing machine structures into structures understandable by a human. In this case: human - Jojo Mayer (and rarely anyone else), machine - drum machine

BTW, doesn’t the beginning of Jojo Mayer & Nerve performace remind anyone of  Roni Size tune?

Thanks to Ivan Andonov for the tip.

[via line0ut]

Little Dragon - Constant Surprises

Oh, gosh - I’m melting to these sounds and the voice of Yukimi Nagano. In case you wonder where did you hear this captivating voice, here’s the hint - Koop.

I’m really hearing forward to their concert in Hamburg.

[via erikbodin]

This is one of the best creations with Cockney accent I’ve heard or seen. Next to Only Fools and Horses of course.

The song comes from “North of Ping Pong” collective from London. Magnificent directing comes from a creative guy with an unfortunately generic-sounding name of Adam Smith who has already directed video spots for another UK rapper The Streets and critically-acclaimed Galvanize from The Chemical Brothers. The excellent editing was done by another generic-sounding bloke named Joe Guest. I hope there