If you have not seen a nice hi-res version of Muse – Sing for Absolution, you need to. This sample is 120 megish, so I may delete it after a bit.
While Muse has been one of my faves for a while, upon revisiting this vid I was more impressed. Here are some points to look for: The first few notes match the missile explosions. Effective use of black/silence. Particle generators and the disruption thereof. Situation matching or contrasting emotions and facial expressions. This combination of heart-wrenching meaning and video wizardry made me very emotional. Beautiful!
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Moenia’s latest offering of digital dreaminess is awesome. The sound is primarily deconstructed, not as dark, and has a mild case of blippy beat syndrome. The drums and bass lines move at a very steady pace. Hearing female vocals on “Me Equivoque” was a fascinating change.
At one brilliant point Juan bursts into perfect English! “Siempre Igual” is not quite the same meaning as “You can’t expect us to be one.” Oh well, they are the artists words after all. A couple of the layers seem to not have the same time; rhythm is a bit fuzzy in a couple places (like all of “Un Rato”). Now the question is: will they release a US version or will it have evil copycontrol damage so I cannot play it in my car like Stereohits had. Overall this is a fine work. I can’t wait for them to put out something completely in English.
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Ok, the race is on to finish Uber-ripping the CD collection before my contract ends and I have no job. (September 12 is my last day at Lockheed Martin T__T) I have confiscated the kids’ computer, one server, and the MAME machine’s heart (Laptop). All of this to perform three ongoing extractions at once.
The good news is that I can see the ending in sight. I am down to the Japanese stuff which is impossible because I can’t read the titles, and tons of singles which have one or two tracks and are not in the FREEDB.
I am going to get a copy of the Dance Factory Music game for PS2. We need a way to share music discs and step files. More to come.
You may notice that posting is slowing down lately. My heart is convicted that if someone only came here to judge me I would be a totally worldly person. If you think this about me please understand that popsynth.com is a place to vent my worldly interests. I maintain several other sites, including several Godly ones about marriage and church and such. Games, music and food are not my gods. Things will soon change around here.
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Ok, now we have seen them live. Some strange happenstance brought Apologetix to Sierra Vista from Philadelphia. I still say they owe the original artists an apology. I could not get the real songs out of my head (or throbbing ringing eardrums).
The concert was entertaining, and had nothing to do with the God I know. He was more of a casual mention with that prevalent free-love God approach. (Ask Jesus into your heart and ask him to do what YOU want).
Apologetix tries to send The Message, with one minor command left off “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL”. I did chuckle at a few of the songs.
They need to get apologetic and apologize for borrowing mainstream work.
InsideOut – Acapella does a ton of synthpop covers. Top-notch website. If you only get one of their albums to try it should be Innocence. Infosoc, Forever Young, Yaz – Only you. Oh yeah, I will stick with them. (Also not for Godly reasons, I just like the Synthpop done a cappella style)
So the bottom line is that I will not support one group for a morality issue, but I will support a Mormon group who I have moral issues with? Can anyone say: Hypocrite.
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If you like blippy beats, Now Is The Time! to rush out and purchase Polysics. I love the intro cheese noises! The blippy breaks in Wild One and Toisu! just rule. Very Cornelius grown-up YMO. Of course you have already seen “I My Me Mine”. (Strong Machine version)
The last track bye-bye-bye is perfect justification for purchasing this music as a learn Japanese lesson: “sank you-Arigato, Sayonara is BYEBYE.”
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This is from Waay back when they were almost a hair band and made really incredible music!
Anything Box – Living In Oblivion Video
There is a rumor that a new Abox CD will be made going back to the “roots”. But until then,
where is love and happiness? While you are there might as well watch Art Of Noise – Close To The Edit I have bought DVDs looking for this video and gave up. Another sweet gem of a video Art Of Noise – Beat Box contains the coolest mix of that song. Even though record companies pumped out more re-releases and mix-compilational best-of cds from art of noise, they never managed to get the original Beat Box from cassette to cd. There are by far more third-party releases and best of CDs than original CDs by the artists. Art Of Noise – Dragnet Video Good job of mixing themselves into the film footage.
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There has always been an Information Society hole in the music scene that was never filled satisfactorily. Paul Robb has teamed up with James Cassidy again and two others. New Group Interview. Huzzah and happy day. How will they do without Kurt? Remains to be seen.
Here is a myspace with a new song: Insoc MySpace. It looks like Kurt still holds the http://www.insoc.org/ domain. Informationsociety.com, .net, and .org seem to be held by cheesy squatters. Looks like the new formation of the group has to settle for www.informationsociety.us.
The beats and layers are sweet as ever. In the new songs the lead singer is mostly close to his notes. This is truly a finger-crossing happenstance.
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Someone found an obscure Vinyl copy of one of my fave Synthpop groups: Movieland My copy of Postcard to New York seemed to have a higher production value than the mp3 on that site. Maybe his was a demo? If he really has the disc, why are the other songs not available?
Anyhow it has occurred to me why so many people think 128bit mp3s sound like “cd quality”. I have never used low quality built-in speakers like the ones Dell throws in with their bundles until now. With the scratchy rattling cones and no bass a 192 and a 128 almost sound the same. (And I also have a headache from the machine “tin” noise.)
There is another album that was only on Vinyl which I really want to get and extract to digital. Windows – White Door
If you see the submarine, it has resurfaced. If you scrub it with sand paper it is resurfaced?
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There are two rarities of spanish synthpop on Youtube. I was told about the first group years ago, a fan sent me a CDR which unfortunately contains a boot sector virus. The label “cun cun” was on the disc and that is what I was looking for this whole time. Turns out the group is called Qun Qun. Video. If you can ignore the vid and listen to the music it is quite good. Especially the instrumental break at ~2:30.
Another interesting bit is this rare tecnopop style video LLT Fiction vid. There really were a ton of synthpop groups in spanish: Eskimos & Egypt, Alaska Y Dinarama, OBK, Los Heroes, Fey, Moenia, Morbo..
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Science week theme is my absolute fave Erasure song. After seven years of trying to get my hands on this cd: Sample of Erasure Buried Treasure It is fully Ubernet compliant of course. You can tell how song writing develops from the demos.
There was not one update in April! Shame on me. Oh wait, I did update the Sierra Vista restaurant page .
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