Rundle Mall
John Farnham has a classic late 80’s sound and was famous for his pop songs. He also did this ridiculously banging tune for the Rundle Mall in Adelaide, Australia.
Human drum machine
Starpowerdrummer is basically a human Drum and Bass/Jungle drum machine. Listen to him play in real life what was previously only possible on a drum machine. He’s so unbelievably clean and exact – it’s kind of mind boggling.
AI Generated Vintage Christmas
AI Retro Rewind has a few AI generated channels going for Christmas. This one combines AI generated 50’s retro-futuristic images with AI jazzy tunes. Oh, what the AI world has wrought.
The song that plays at the end of your life
An ethereally beautiful and melancholy song by Emile Mosseri – Jacob and the Stone | Minari
Ranks right up there with ‘All the Beauty in the World’ from the Molly’s game soundtrack.
Gilligan’s Island Band?
Whoa. The Gilligan’s Island Band is a pretty good schtick.
Guitar pedals – with a flute
Nitty Gritty
Despite having taken a number of salsa and swing dancing lessons, I’m afraid that I’m just not that natural of a dancer. But boy I love swing dancing when I see it. It’s definitely my favorite.
Stephen and Chanzie put on an amazing show at the Rock That Swing Festival by dancing to The Nitty Grity (by Shirley Ellis). Performed at the Deutsches Theater (February 6th, 2016)
Man – I wish our culture had a lot more of this kind of quality.
OpenAI music video
OpenAI’s first Sora AI generated music video called ‘Worldweight’ was supposed to capture the images a musician visualized in their mind while composing the piece. It’s not particular good, more of a pretentious art student’s fever dream.
Previous attempts were better. This video from 2022 used Dall-E to create a video for the song Canvas by Resonate:
But Sora is capable of more. Indie artist Washed Out used Sora to create an interesting video called “The Hardest Part” that tried to explore the idea of an infinite zoom that would have been too ambitious. I think it came out pretty good:
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Less not more
Synthet has a set of fun music/mixing tutorials in which he teaches his various editing and tweaking techniques using the very techniques to do the teaching. They’re really creative and enjoyable. Give one a listen:
Einstürzende Neubauten, Autobahn
Welcome to 6:47 of complete, bonkers industrial music played by the experimental music group Einstürzende Neubauten. Formed in West Berlin in 1980, here they are in 1984 playing on piles of junk in a piece they called ‘Autobahn’. Scraping steel, chainsaws, grinders, and screaming. Just what’s you expect from a 1980’s German punk/industrial/what-the-heck-was-that band.
https://youtu.be/odKf7_sA5HQ?si=MeexFWLxeYmO8X–
What are they doing now? One member became a music lawyer/label owner, and others are still doing ‘art’:
If you like the bizarre, try out the Swedish band Silencer that release one bonkers album and then largely disappeared.