Sredzkistraße » Music http://ventolin.org Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:33:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Albumart Replacer http://ventolin.org/2012/02/albumart-replacer/ http://ventolin.org/2012/02/albumart-replacer/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:33:53 +0000 aengus http://ventolin.org/?p=829 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!

]]> http://ventolin.org/2012/02/albumart-replacer/feed/ 1 Is this the worst piece of music ever made? http://ventolin.org/2012/01/is-this-the-worst-piece-of-music-ever-made/ http://ventolin.org/2012/01/is-this-the-worst-piece-of-music-ever-made/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:56:51 +0000 aengus http://ventolin.org/?p=824 I’m fairly certain it is. I’ve nothing further to say about it.

The Sea of Providence

The Sea of Providence by Richard Youngs

If Richard or Root Strata take exception to me hosting this music here, they need just contact me and it’ll be taken down.

]]> http://ventolin.org/2012/01/is-this-the-worst-piece-of-music-ever-made/feed/ 1 A Winged Victory For The Sullen Live http://ventolin.org/2011/11/a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen-live/ http://ventolin.org/2011/11/a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen-live/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:42:58 +0000 aengus http://ventolin.org/?p=739 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…

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“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.

]]> http://ventolin.org/2011/11/slow-walkers/feed/ 0 Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (Aphex Remix) http://ventolin.org/2011/11/threnody-for-the-victims-of-hiroshima-aphex-remix/ http://ventolin.org/2011/11/threnody-for-the-victims-of-hiroshima-aphex-remix/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:29:23 +0000 aengus http://ventolin.org/?p=727 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

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]]> http://ventolin.org/2011/11/poetry/feed/ 0 My man Diamond D is like a hired gun http://ventolin.org/2011/10/my-man-diamond-d-is-like-a-hired-gun/ http://ventolin.org/2011/10/my-man-diamond-d-is-like-a-hired-gun/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:55:45 +0000 aengus http://ventolin.org/?p=714 I’ve been looking for this track for about 11 years now, ever since I heard it on DJ MK‘s Volume 12 mixtape. This week I finally found it.

Diamond D & Sadat X – Feel It (Album Version)
Diamond D & Sadat X – Feel It (Album Version)

It’s mid-90s hiphop, what’s more to be said?

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You can listen to a full EP from them here.

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]]> http://ventolin.org/2011/10/a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen/feed/ 0 You could lose your mind in here; your money too http://ventolin.org/2010/12/you-could-lose-your-mind-in-here-your-money-too/ http://ventolin.org/2010/12/you-could-lose-your-mind-in-here-your-money-too/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:07:40 +0000 aengus http://ventolin.org/?p=662 Been listening to this an awful lot in the past few days. A little gem that this new last.fm recommendation service brought up. Enjoy!

The Country With A Smile

(Ned Collette – The Country With A Smile)

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