Mediaburn Podstation 2408
Mediaburn Podstation 2408
A digital media podstation from Mediaburn.net and The Mediaburn Radio Weblog. Welcome!
Station feed:  Created by: Gary Santoro |
Created on: 20 Nov 2004 Language: English |
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The Egg (6.73MB; download) -- "if you like Air...you'll love The Egg".
The Egg- Forwards LP (2004)
"Funky Dube" MP3
Since I have posted about a few bands already that I like that play electronic-style music I thought I would post about the band that started it all for me, The Egg. Not only are they of my favorite bands, but they are a band that really got me into electronic music. I picked up their extremely funky album "Albumen" in 1996 and have been hooked ever since. I personally think this is one of the greatest electronic albums ever put out by a live band. Two years later they released "Travelator" which sounds even less like a band, and more like a full scale electronic artist production. By this time I was convinced that I was the biggest fan of this band in all of the US and I was literally force-feeding it to anybody who would listen. I was lucky enough to see them live when I was in London and their live show was an audio visual extravaganza. They wear all white and project films that they made over them while they play and everything is in synch. $$$$
Their sound has matured a bit over the years and they dropped one of the best downtempo tracks I have ever heard, "venice beach" on Twisted's wonderful "Backroom Beats" compilation. This lead to a downtempo ep titled "mellowmania" which is also very good. This year the band released their LP "Forwards" which is my pick for most underrated album of the year. If you liked AIR's "Talkie Walkie", you will LOVE this. It ranges from moody, well produced instrumentals, to New Order style vocals, to some light, Indie rock vocal tracks, and a few fast and funky tracks that put them on...well....my map.
Buy their albums, watch clips, and learn more about this great UK band: HERE
[mp3blogs] Selected by: Gary Santoro [ stations ], Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:42:27 UTC
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Podcast1024: Mirror Walk by Prent Rodgers (3.56MB; download) -- This is a piece I wrote for a combination of instruments. They include cello, violins, double bass, tuba, contrabassoon, oboe, flutes, finger piano, harp, vibraphone, french horn and many different trombones. All are subject to up and down sampling to create tiny versions of the instruments. A tenor trombone, downsampled by a few notes and then taken up an octave sounds like a sopranino trumpet. All instruments can glissando, including the harp, finger piano, oboe, flute, and cello.
There is a great deal of indeterminacy in my music. In this piece, each instrument can sometimes choose from many different alternative measures at any one time. At other times, they are more constrained. The trombone, oboe, and finger piano accompaniments had many choices, but are still constrained to a short list. Later in the song they could chose from many more alternatives. Some interesting parts showed up just because it was their time to be heard. I especially like the oom-pah-pah part at 2:45, following some trombone glissandi. I like to think of it as an improvisation, subject to control. It was created using Csound.
If you want to hear the podcast directly, click here to listen or add this RSS feed to your iPodder or Doppler download window. Selected by: Gary Santoro [ stations ], Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:16:28 UTC
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schonherr1.mp3 (2.30MB; download) -- schonherr1.mp3 (expressionist/fab/culture) Selected by: Gary Santoro [ stations ], Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:22:12 UTC
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