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28 Feb 2012

Due Process

Another tune I’ve been searching for for years (this time since probably around 2000) – first heard it as the backing to Ronnie Creager’s part on the Blind Skateboards section of Rodney Mullen VS Daewon Song Round II:

Happened to give this video a watch for a bit of a blast of nostalgia and thought to have another look for the tune. This site has popped up in the last decade and gave me the full run-down of tunes:

  • Blind #1 - instrumental mix by DJ Mino
  • Blind #2 – Gideon Choi - Afromaxx Music Production – Two Steps Beyond
  • Blind #3 – Josh Kasper - Visionaries – Say Where (instrumental)
  • Blind #4 – Corey Sheppard - Diamond D – When It Pours It Rains (instrumental)
  • Blind #5 – James Craig - Choclair – What It Takes (remix instrumental)
  • Blind #6 – Ronnie Creager - Lone Catalysts – Due Process (instrumental)

Incredibly happy to have finally tracked it down after all these years. Easily one of the best hip-hop productions I’ve ever heard.

Here’s the normal version:

And, most importantly, the instrumental:

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28 February, 2012 at 17:51 by aengus

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4 Feb 2012

Albumart Replacer

The Albumart Replacer is a little script I wrote to automatically find higher-resolution copies of album covers. For listening to music, I use foobar2000 and although the wonderful foo_discogs automatically adds album art to my music, sometimes the artwork on discogs.com isn’t the best.

Enter Albumart Replacer. If I’m listening to music and I notice the album art isn’t up to scratch, e.g.:

I simply run the script, it sends the image’s data to tineye.com, and if any higher-resolution copies of the same image are found, it’ll grab the best quality one:

This is all done without any user interaction. Using foo_run, it’s easy to set up a keybinding in foobar2000 so that it just takes one key press (simply pass the script a song’s %PATH% variable from foobar and it’ll do the rest.)

Source code, downloads and further details are available at the bitbucket repository.

Enjoy!

4 February, 2012 at 18:33 by aengus

Posted in Art, Code, Computers, Music | 1 Comment »

6 Jan 2012

The Chaos

A poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité demonstrating the abundant irregularities of English spelling and pronunciation. More info here.  Read the rest of this entry »

6 January, 2012 at 15:02 by aengus

Posted in Art, Funny, Linguistics, Poetry, Words | No Comments »

24 Nov 2011

A Winged Victory For The Sullen Live

From their Facebook page:

for those of you who could not make to one of our US shows…our videographer friend Joshua Smelser filmed the entire Los Angles show. Enjoy!

You can watch the entire concert in high-definition below.

EDIT: Although the sound quality is pretty dreadful…

24 November, 2011 at 17:42 by aengus

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23 Nov 2011

Slow Walkers

“Wake” from “Slow Walkers”, a Grouper / Lawrence English collaboration, to be released in 2012. The video is something else — “meditations for the zombie as cultural phenomena”.

Thanks to Dennis for bringing this to my attention. He also makes great ambient music himself — if you like this kind of thing, you should check his music out.

23 November, 2011 at 0:12 by aengus

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7 Nov 2011

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (Aphex Remix)

Very unsettling.

From its vimeo page:

see original version, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki himself, performed just before this performance, here = youtube.com/​watch?v=SFoTqF-gGxA&feature=related

see the other Aphex Twin edits for this show here = vimeo.com/​album/​1735255

see all other performances from the show here
youtube.com/​user/​fixedmachine#grid/​user/​CFB3F7A0029A764C

Live visuals by Weirdcore.
gfx programming by weirdcore & andrew benson

7 November, 2011 at 18:29 by aengus

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6 Nov 2011

There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He must be Destroyed.

I spent most of today reading this blog post by Adam Curtis. His posts are always a bit of a battle to get through, since they’re peppered with video which sometimes makes the whole experience a bit laborious, but this one — despite some of the videos being as long as 45 minutes — is just perfect. Each of the videos compliments the text exactly as it should, leaving you with the feeling that you’ve just watched an entire Curtis documentary series.

The blog post charts the decline of the revolutionary leftist student movements in Europe, England especially, focusing on the influences of Pauline Boty and Clive Goodwin, two prominent figures in the British Pop Art movement, and Herbert Marcuse, a political philosopher whose ideas had a large effect on the student movements. It all culminates in the absolutely fascinating story of Michael de Freitas (“Michael X”) whose name I’d not heard before today. It is this story to which Curtis devotes 45 minutes of your time in the form of an old BBC documentary which he’s edited down a little.

I won’t spoil any of that story, instead leaving you to read and watch for yourself.

6 November, 2011 at 18:08 by aengus

Posted in Art, Politics | 1 Comment »

2 Nov 2011

Poetry

2 November, 2011 at 22:12 by aengus

Posted in Art, Music, Oddities, Poetry | No Comments »

8 Oct 2011

The Alarmist

Easily the best Irish band at the moment – here’s a video of them performing “Clapper”.

You can listen to a full EP from them here.

8 October, 2011 at 19:23 by aengus

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7 Oct 2011

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Performing the opening track from their self-titled album in their first live radio session:

7 October, 2011 at 13:33 by aengus

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