New song – “The Gift of a Day”
Check out a new Emyoku song entitled ‘The Gift of a Day’ on our Facebook page. Lyrics included.
New Emyoku Photography
Check out these new photographs… order prints here. Prices starting at $10.91
One whole FREE album.
Click here to listen and, if you want, download music from a ten song album.
It is music by me, Andrew- my initials are A.E.- that is where that comes from. This isn’t really a solo project. This is an extension of Emyoku. Just some free music from us and made by us as a happy holiday gift to our peeps.
Mashup: Beastie Boys vs. Kelis vs. Tom Tom Club (Genius in the Crawlspace…)
“Genius in the Crawl Space, Boys in the Yard (feat. Beastie Boys, Kelis, & Tom Tom Club)” – also partial beats and percussion by me. The pictures are, once again, unrelated.
Soundcloud tracks
Sharing is caring… check here to listen some of our songs on soundcloud. A few are free to download…
I made one of those mashup/remix things- Black Eyed Peas & Fleetwood Mac
Pictures unrelated. Beat is original.
New Emyoku Album “All of One” is released!
Emyoku’s second full length album, “All of One” is now available on iTunes. Check www.emyoku.com to hear some of the songs.
New Emyoku album to be released this week…
Emyoku’s second full length album, entitled “All of One”, is set to be released on iTunes this week (Rhapsody and Amazon coming a bit later). The album is 14 tracks of electronic goodness and is about an hour in total duration. This album is quite a bit different than the first in that it has less of an ambient electronica feel and more of an upbeat, harder hitting quality to it. That being said, there are some songs on the album that are a bit more on the ‘chill’ side. Also, many of the tracks have vocals by both Zak and Andrew. Overall, the music draws from numerous styles (electronica, hip hop, acoustic, rock, etc.) but comes together to form a cohesive and refreshing playlist. Stay tuned for the release…
Cassini Video
I love these images of the Saturn system. They’re put together in the above video by designer/director Chris Abbas. Check here for more of his work.
The two dudes in LMFAO are uncle and nephew AND related to the head of Motown
When I first heard LMFAO, I thought they were the music equivalent of Jackson Pollock- meaning that anybody can do what they do, but they just happen to be the two right guys and just the right time. Make some standard electronic and hip-hop beats, chant-rap over it = PROFIT!
But now I see that they are directly related to the guy who started Motown Records and I think… they are the music equivalent of Nancy Sinatra.Now, I’m not saying I don’t enjoy some of their tunes, but this kind of spoils it a little for me- anybody else???
From Wikipedia:
LMFAO is an American electro hop duo that formed in 2006 in Los Angeles, California, consisting of rappers and DJs Redfoo, (Stefan Kendal Gordy, born September 3, 1975)[2][3] and SkyBlu (Skyler Husten Gordy, born August 23, 1986).[4] They are the son and grandson, respectively, of Motown record label founder Berry Gordy, making them uncle and nephew.[5][6] Their music incorporates a theme of partying and drinking, and the group commonly refers to their music style as “party rock.” The name LMFAO is the acronym for “Laughing My Fucking Ass Off” and is pronounced letter by letter.
Also, I didn’t come upon this- someone else did.
But still… they are having fun:
Terje Sorgjerd Photography
Awesome time-lapse photography / video by Norwegian photography Terje Sorgjerd. The above video has been all over the internet lately… and for good reason- it’s stunning and awe-inspiring. Check out some more of his amazing work here.
120 Years of Electronic Music
Weezer covered Radiohead- is this good?
Weezer covers “Paranoid Android” by Radiohead.
I suddenly feel like I’ve accidentally traveled back in time to a parallel universe.
RZA and Gravediggers unite for new album
Let’s hope this comes out as badass as it sounds.
Dancing Twins. BAMF Song.
There are at least eleven insane things going on at various times in this video. But by far the craziest is that dude’s shirt in the mirror…
Q-Tip, Wu-Tang, Naughty by Nature, Arsenio Hall – 1994
At what other time and place could something like this happen?
I will never get sick of hip-hop/dub-step remixes
I don’t know what it is. But the wobbly bass and a tight MC. I don’t know. It is like magic or something. Obviously not all of them are good. But then there’s things like this:
Anyone else feeling me on this? Hello? Anyone?
Egyptian Princess had Coronary Artery Disease
“The Egyptian princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon, who lived in Thebes (Luxor) between 1580 and 1550 BC and who is now known to be first person in human history with diagnosed coronary artery disease, lived on a diet rich of vegetables, fruit and a limited amount of meat from domesticated (but not fattened) animals. Wheat and barley were grown along the banks of the Nile, making bread and beer the dietary staples of this period of ancient Egypt. Tobacco and trans-fats were unknown, and lifestyle was likely to have been active.”
But alas, she still wasn’t healthy. Read the rest of the article here.
Great video/song (indie) rock- Red Fang
This isn’t the normal style of music that we post here, nor is would I call it my favorite style but these guys do it right… oh and the video just happens to kick ass.
Lazy Habits is a band to check out.
A full band with horns, a rapper, and a singer. This could go terribly wrong… but it doesn’t. This is what I was hoping the Flobots would be like. So here ya go, what do you think?:
We now have a National Jukebox
The Library of Congress just created a National Jukebox online.
With a selection of more than 10,000 recordings from 1901-1925 made by Victor Talking Machine Company, which by the way would be a great name for a band. Or maybe not. Anyways. If you are in to stumbling around a bunch of old recordings to kill some time, then this is a great place to do such a thing.
White Stripes/Glitch Mob “Seven Nation Army (Remix)”
Dirty.
Bassnectar and Pretty Lights could collaborate soon!
These guys are both awesome- Pretty Lights is from Colorado and has made some of the best hip-hop influenced electronic music in recent years and Bassnectar is well… Bassnectar, getting attention all over the place for his heavy sounds and skilled use of sampling. I mean… a collaboration between these two could be epic. Period.
These still-life paintings are insanely photo-realistic
Does anyone else love this stuff?
"My First Time in New York" by Hyper Tom
That is a painting. Amazing. See a ton more by CLICKING HERE RIGHT NOW. Sorry about yelling there… just get a little passionate about still life paintings.
If you haven’t yet seen the new Beastie Boys short film then, here ya go
No offense. I just like this.
Carl Sagan.
Google + art
Maybe you should just go ahead and check out what it is like when the technology behind Google Earth gets together with great, colossal works of art:
Apparat
I recently purchased an album entitled “Walls” by the Germany-based ambient/electronic artist known as Apparat. It is one of those rare albums that I fell in love with the first time I heard it. I was able to hear the album in its entirety that first day since I was on a road trip, and it was perfect for the long drive. Below are a couple of songs from the album. For more info on Apparat, check here.
Oldtime Blues Recording Treasure 1928
Willie McTell
This song is one of those songs.
It sparks something.
It was October in 1928, in Atlanta, and a thirty year old, blind, African-American guitarist records a set of songs for Victory records. This is, possibly, the best song from that session:
Two minutes, thirty-four seconds. Twelve-string guitar. And Willie.
It would go on to be covered several times, eventually evolving into the most familiar version by the Allman Brothers Band. Which Rolling Stone would declare to be the ninth greatest guitar song of all time.
Art Guide to Life: David Schwen
"Homer"
David Schwen is a pop artist currently producing brilliant things that can be viewed and purchased here. Alot of his work is perfect for t-shirts, etc. The above is from the “Pop Icon” series.
"PBJ"
"... if a woodchuck could wear chucks."
Give a Second Listen to Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach
When this album first came out I was against it. I’ll admit it. It sounded too different from what I was hoping and expecting from one of my favorite pseudo-cartoon-bands. So I dismissed it and went on. Then I got bored and thought, “oh what the hell, it does have Mos Def all over it…” And listened to the album again. And now- I dig it. It isn’t my new fav album or even my new fav album by the Gorillaz. But it is worth a second listen. I mean… how can you not enjoy an album with “Superfast Jellyfish” on it?
Cornet solo from 1903
Look at that beautiful 'stache.
Jules Levy was billed as The World’s Greatest Cornetist, to which you might be saying, “What the hell is a cornetist?” You’re not alone (my text editor keeps underlining the word in squiggly red lines). But I swear it is a word!
In fact, it is someone you plays the cornet. Which is what Jules is holding up to his face in the picture above (which Wikipedia says is from the 1880s). You can still buy cornets (at Amazon for example). They are basically like trumpets but not quite like trumpets. But back in the nineteenth century they were pretty popular. I’ve heard they were even preferred over the trumpet for their clear sound, but I don’t have any evidence to prove that.
The thing that is amazing is that even though Jules lived and played over a hundred years ago. We can still hear what he sounded like today. Ah, the beauty of the internet.
Here’s the note from archive.org:
This was a test pressing of this historic performer. It was Levy in 1878 who was trying at shows to confuse the tin-foil phonograph by playing fast, but here we have the sounds of the same performer playing shortly before he died.
Here’s the tune, enjoy:
Just a quick Bio of Jules Levy:
He was born in London and first learn to play the cornet only by using the mouthpiece (he couldn’t afford the whole instrument). He became a renowned musician and toured with Patrick Gilmore’s famous band where he was encouraged to improvise and thus is one of the earlier examples of what would later become jazz. He was also a pioneer in recording music and testing recording technology, always challenging engineers to improve sound recording design.
Taher Ghallab Photography
Check out these photographs by Egyptian photographer Taher Ghallab. Take a look at his website for more information and work.
4th Dimension
The other night I was watching an episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series where he discusses the 4th dimension. I found it very interesting and decided to post the segment (video 1 above) of the episode. The 2nd video describes basically the same thing though with animation and a bit more explanatory power. The third vid shows an animation of a rotating tesseract (4 dimensional cube). Just some food for thought as you surf the 2-dimensional world of the internet…
“Dubstep is just slow hip-hop”
Q: What do you say to music lovers who just can’t wrap their heads around dubstep? There are a lot of people out there who aren’t jumping on the dubstep train.
A: I say it’s just slow hip-hop.
For those of you not in the know- the dubstep movement has been playing hard on the West Coast for sometime now. It originated in the UK- specifically the Big Apple Record shop in South London- the UK dubstep is made up of a whole range of artists, such as: Skream, Caspa, Rusko, and NERO (not a comprehensive list by any means).
As usually happens with these things, dubstep found its way to the US and has appeared to gain the largest following in San Francisco and L.A. Where dubstep tracks have been coming up out of the ground like a newly tapped oil reserve.
American Dubstep is just as varied as its London counterpart, including artsits: Bassnectar, Nosaj Thing, Flying Lotus, and the Glitch Mob- whose members also release solo work respectively under the names: Ooah, Boreta, and edIT. One of the founding members of the Glitch Mob, who split with them and is now a solo artist, is Kraddy (pictured above). For a short interview with Kraddy that Denver Westword published today where he dispels any trepidation by explaining that yes- dubstep IS just slow hip-hop, go here.
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