Ehukai: “Moloka’i Slide.”
Nothing more, nothing less.
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For reasons that are far too stupid to go into here, I was searching for music featuring both bagpipes and banjo the other day. This was one of the results.
NATIONAL BANJO CHAMPION DAN KNOWLES, returns with PIPER ED SMITH, FIDDLERS TYLER ANDELL, ADAM FRENCH & BASSIST SAM KNOWLES for this Civil War era tour-de-force! Recorded at the TENNESSEE STATE OLD TIME FIDDLE CHAMPIONSHIP in Clarksville, TN on 3-18-2011.
I’m uncertain what bagpipes have to do with the American Civil War, but okay.
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The Magic of FM Synth
Ray Barnholt wrote an great piece for 1UP.com on the use of FM synthesis in video game music. Writing on this kind of thing can be really dodgy, but this is pretty accurate and also pretty comprehensive, going over arcade games and Japanese PCs too. Check it out!
And I can’t recommend enough the Ubiktune albums mentioned at the end, FM FUNK MADDNESS!! and FM FUNK TERRROR!!. Also pretty much every other Ubiktune album released in the last year and a half.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg
Fantastic music video for the song “Fantasy” by French electro musician DyE, off his debut Taki 183.
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I was just reminded of how awesome the credits theme from Namco’s 2003 PS2 RPG Venus & Braves, “Cup of Story,” is.
Composed by Masako Oogami, with guitar by Takanori Goto and sax by Yuichiro Noro.
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“On My Block” features Scarface (of the Geto Boys) rapping over a fantastic Nashiem Myrick beat — as featured in the aforelinked Cam’ron freestyle. This is off 2002’s The Fix.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkSvtVEeEZA
A group of Japanese soul musicians perform “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell & the Drells. All did not go well for your hosts when we watched it, however.
- Colin:
- His accent is SO BAD ahahahah
- Colin:
- MAKE IT MARRO
- ‘Ili:
- DYNAMITE SOUL SHOW
- Colin:
- That trumpeter is really having a bad lip night, yikes.
- Colin:
- (he’s soloing at around 4 minutes in)
- ‘Ili:
- Just hit that.
- ‘Ili:
- suddenly blat
- Colin:
- Keyboardist has a great solo, ends around 6 minutes in.
- Colin:
- lmao what an ernest hemingway lookalike is on stage now and he’s dancing
- Colin:
- Oh my god what at this dancing
- Colin:
- WHY IS THIS HAPPENING
- ‘Ili:
- ^
- Colin:
- DO THE HOSE
- Colin:
- why is this a wide shot now at 9:50 what
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Fantastic Cam’ron freestyle
Linking rather than embedding so you can skip the rest of Dipset and get straight to Cam. Incredible two verses — plus he counts money the entire time. Cam is paid!
In the mid-80s, New Wave band XTC put out two releases under then name “The Dukes of Stratosphear”. Basically, the Dukes are an extended homage to the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s — think Syd Barrett–era Pink Floyd. Here’s one of their tracks, “25 O’Clock”. Love this.
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