Remember the NBA on NBC? Remember that awesome theme song? Well it’s called “Roundball Rock” and was composed by John Tesh (yes, that John Tesh) in a rather unusual way. I won’t spoil it; hit the video.
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Here’s a musical installation that’s rad as all get out.
Archifon I. is a big interactive musical instrument controlled with laser pointers. Up to 10 visitors at a time can interact with the Archifon through the laser pointers. By pointing on any of more than 100 elements, different audiovisual actions are initiated.
It’s by Tomas Dvorak, who composed the awesome soundtrack to the awesome game Machinarium, and Dan Gregor.
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“I Love You” by Modeselektor.
(The dope image in the video is by Jason Chan and you can find a wallpaper-size version here.)
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Earl Scruggs dies at 88
Steve Martin, writing in The New Yorker earlier this year:
As boys in the little community of Flint Hill, near Shelby, North Carolina, Earl and his brother Horace would take their banjo and guitar and start playing on the porch, then split up and meet behind the house. Their goal was to still be on the beat when they rejoined at the back. Momentously, when he was ten years old, after a fight with his brother, he was playing his banjo to calm his mind. He was practicing the standard “Reuben” when found he could incorporate his third finger into the picking of his right hand, instead of his usual two, in an unbroken, rolling, staccato. He ran back to his brother, shouting, “I’ve got it, I’ve got it!” He was on the way to creating an entirely new way of playing the banjo: Scruggs Style.
Great profile of Scruggs, who was probably the best there ever was, and maybe the best that ever will be. (Also, if you click through there’s a recording of “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” to listen to.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaejOZyImA
Short but sweet on this Tuesday is Victor Wooten’s bass groove simply titled “Groove.”
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Video of Nas performing “Illmatic” live at SXSW
Video of Nas performing “Illmatic” live at SXSW
This is not to be missed. DJ Premier is on the turntables (and acting as hype man), and AZ and Pete Rock both show up. Seriously, this is really, really great stuff.
(Probably my favorite part is that Premier is wearing an Illmatic T-shirt. That’s a level so completely beyond “wearing the band’s T-shirt to their show” that I don’t even know if it’s cool or not. Which makes it very cool.)
The GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan performing “Liquid Swords” with the band Wavves. Totallly amazing for any number of reasons — GZA rockin’ a button down and rapping without a hype man, for starters.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En7EGSxUbTM
For your toe-tappination on this fine Tuesday is “Limehouse Blues” by Le Quintette du Hot Club de France, featuring Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stéphane Grappelli on violin.
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The Colbert Report (8/3/12): Don Fleming, Elvis Costello & Emmylou Harris
The Colbert Report (8/3/12): Don Fleming, Elvis Costello & Emmylou Harris
Don Fleming, Elvis Costello, and Emmylou Harris stopped by The Colbert Report last week to talk about Alan Lomax and American folk music. The three and Colbert also performed “Good Old Mountain Dew” and “Goodnight, Irene.” Highly recommended.
This is “The Dawn And The Embrace,” by When The Clouds (Francesco Galano) off the EP The Longed-For Season.
I found this completely by accident. It’s pretty neat.
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