after being told by some lazy good-for-nothing reader that my lebron james video was so last year (which it was, indeed, but still bad-ass all the same) i wanted to do some research about what might be newer and interesting.

but my memory is a little fuzzy, and so i recalled a rap song that used bartok, some music in lost that really blew my mind, little samples that me and jon had tried to figure out.

researching the topic, i came across an initial blog that was pretty rad, dedicated to the preservation, celebration, and restoration of all things vinyl

http://www.libraryofvinyl.org/

yet a random link on their blog pushed me to an even more incredible and endlessly entertaining website, which catalogs and categorizes samples of every kind

http://www.the-breaks.com/

so here’s a few gems from that website that i found….

bartok used by rap artist dr. octagon in “blue flowers”

steve reich used by orb in “little fluffy clouds”

the eclectic homeless blind viking composer moondog used by mr. scruff in “get a move on”

if you’re interested in this kind of stuff, and want to fill a fwe hours, days, or weeks, check out

http://www.xampled.com/xampled/

or

http://jessekriss.com/projects/samplinghistory/

i’ll have more to report from aspen, co, soon, as i’m working on infiltrating the food and wine festival as we speak.

i did experience my first celebrity sighting today, that of the infamous marcel.

a bunch of thuggy-looking slouches were crossing the street in front of my friend’s dave car, quite slowly and with lots of hand motions. and taking their time, not noticing its a green light, treating the whole world like its philadelphia, the bastards! and then i realize, its marcel, so i lean out the window and in my best falsetto, give him a passionate, “marrrrrrceeeeel!”

now as for my other fascination, music in film, and tv

i love that people can sneak any kind of music into the right kind of image, whether its webern on the sopranos, journey on the sopranos, crazy contemporary stuff on lost, bartok in the shining, funk all over the place. there is a long list, and i’d like to start documenting and sharing it….

now.

lebron catches kool and the gang’s “summer madness” perfectly, with each glorious synth attack releasing both adrenaline and endorphins!

i found these tracks on the blog American Athlete that I stumbled across randomly the other night. It also made me want to acquire a compilation called Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics – 1977-1985, and after more stumbling around blog worlds, Disco Deutschland. This is the second great track I’ve heard by D.D. Sound, and the other by Chocolat’s has a great, but perhaps too long intro reminiscent of the first track I posted by Gotham Flasher. Both have great grooves, but the D.D. Sound song does me in.

D.D. Sound – Burning Love

Chocolat’s – Baby Let’s Do It The French Way

oddly enough, i found this song in the blogosphere, and here i am reposting it. i heard it during my nine hour car ride yesterday to philadelphia and it faintly reminded me of jupiter rooms by digitalism. giving it a second listen, it takes some of the better aspects of jupiter rooms and combines it with some glam vocals and disco vibes. i like it.

jupiter – i love america
jupiter – starlight

i came across this album a couple of weeks ago at encore records in ann arbor, and intrigued by the album art, i gave it a listen. with only four tracks on two discs, the album art seemed to out do what they could have done. i came home and found it online, gave it a listen for couple of weeks, and decided i wanted it after a while. the first song is definitely the best of the album, but it can be exhausted after the initial instinct to listen to it on repeat. but then i started liking the second track, especially the bass shifting in the break somewhere just past the middle, and hence what made me start thinking twice about them.

gotham flasher – i’m never gonna leave you
gotham flasher – can’t turn you loose

for a while now, i’ve been really into valerie. they don’t post the most often, but when they do, it’s always right on. they’ve succeeded in infiltrating how i go about looking at music in general, and this whole 80s type light show boule à facettes leather jacket wearing old ford thunderbird style of music is hitting the spot. if i was writing this two hours ago, i could have said that this album by minitel rose came out today, but now it came out yesterday, fresh from some of those people that write for valerie – again hitting the nail on the head with that style.

minitel rose – continue
papier tigre – concrete residential (minitel rose remix)

I came across this track the other day, and really like the results of the mix between santogold and tepr. he kind of came out with a modeselektor crossed african sounding twists. i swear in the opening before the lyrics start, he samples the sounds that a lyre bird from this video at 2:26:

lyre bird

and here’s the song!

santogold – say aha (tepr remix)