Category: Music

If Bustin Rhymes Wuz an Arcade Game

DJ Format, Abdominal, and D-Sisive play the game. Sweet!

I’m familiar with Abdominal & Format from Ruben Fleischer‘s site. (Both that Abdominal and that Format video I highly recommend. The Format one has been widely linked as a “Furry music video,” but it’s so much more than that! MC’ed by 2 members of Jurassic 5, Chali 2na and Akil, whom apparently if I had any hip hop clues I would have heard of.)

All Quicktime videos.

Whoa… apparently one of J5’s DJs is Cut Chemist. Where have I heard that name before? Aha! Searching for Tackhead I ran across an album by “Cut Chemist and Shortkut” which includes the track “Fats Comet’s Tackhead Beat” — Fats Comet was the original name of Tackhead. Interesting. I have no idea what that Cut Chemist/Shortkut track is about, but that’s why I’ve heard of Cut Chemist before.

Everything is connected to everyone is connected to everything…

Having tracked that down, I need to sleep.

Boing Boing: Mashup of Beatles/Aretha/George Michaels/Scissor Sisters — phenomenal

Boing Boing: Mashup of Beatles/Aretha/George Michaels/Scissor Sisters.

I don’t know why, but these Beatles mashups just rock my world. And Boingboing is on top of ’em all.

See also:

Revolved, which has some really sweet tracks like “Close To No One” (the Cure’s “Close to You” vs. “For No One”).

UberBeatles Mashup, about 40 beatles songs mashed together.

And let’s not forget the Paperback Believer video, which hypnotizes me for some reason.

And the Grey Video, which similarly throws my brain into spasms of happy.

If anyone would like one of these and the boingy links are unavailable, get in touch and I’ll try to hook you up.

Dance Commander

“Things you can see that you can’t unsee” dept…

A little Quicktime music video levity for y’all. Dance Commander by Electric Six, video by the unstoppable Ruben Fleischer.

Honestly great tune, and a video that will sear itself into your retinas and never leave.

Speaking of which, I can not stop watching Paperback Believer, a video/music Beatles/Monkees mashup (via boingboing.) I don’t know what it is but I keep going back to it like the Biblical dog to his vomit.

JHymn

JHymn Goes Behind Atoms and Apple To Bring DRM-Free Music

As DRM schemes go, Apple’s is, I must say, one of the best for end users. But that’s like saying “the handcuffs are mighty comfortable handcuffs.”

This is via, like, BoingBoing or something.

Last time I looked at Hymn, it operated from the command line and it only worked if you owned an iPod.

Now it’s a gorgeous GUI application and works for everyone.

I just bought a copy of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and de-DRMed it, and it plays great.

Cool.

I can attest to a legitimate need for this tool, speaking as someone who’s upgraded computers twice and never remembered to de-auth his computer for the iTunes Music Store before wiping the old one’s hard drive to sell it. Thanks to Why didn’t I think of that? Because I think of my computer as a computer that I own, and my data as data that I own, not as a things that I rent from Apple that I have to get their permission to do anything with. I don’t think I want to have to learn to think differently, and if I have to break the iTMS DRM to do that, that’s fine with me. (Of course, I don’t use iTMS that much anyway. But still.)