The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution

amazing little sound toy

Here’s one I made earlier. Hit “unmute” to hear it.

http://www.dyspxl.com/gallery/orbs/296-theme-song

Fiona Apple is the female Leonard Cohen

Interesting evening listening to classical music. Cuing up Fiona Apple afterwards was interesting, because I’d gotten kind of sensitized to a different range of instrumentation. Well well well, she’s emotionless. It’s all in the words, not in the voice.

Year Zero

Trent Reznor has, it turns out, not only not lost it, but matured into a really profound voice.

YZ is cheesy in places. It cannot be denied that there are a few place where he’s going for an effect that nobody can quite pull off except live. But songs repeat, and repeat, and repeat, and grow richer and not tired, and he hasn’t pulled that off for quite some time.

It’s not Laurie Anderson’s “Big Science” for a darker age. Not quite.

No. Its a mature voice. He’s been, apparently, through hell and back, and now he’s got something to say not about the personal angst of the early brilliant material, or the muddled middle years where, well, now that he was no longer dying alive, there was nothing to say.

Now it’s turned outwards: its a NIN album about the world, not about Trent Reznor’s personal crisis.

There’s a little greatness in this piece of music. He’s got an edge now, a force, that really belies the raw venting of the early material. He’s the only musician that I listened to obsessively when I was growing up and maturing who seems to have genuinely transformed, transmuted and changed - to have matured as an artist, not simply grown older.

He should try politics.

Remarkably beautiful old pop video (Marc Bolan, T-Rex)

Must be catch up day: DJ Thor at Sirkus, F**K the 90s, last Saturday night (i.e. a week ago)

Tellingly, this is an event I don’t have much in the way of photos or video from. I took like one lame still.

And no, you can’t see it.

But there is a soundboard recording of the entire thing, which is spectacularly good, and which I’ll hope to be able to share online at some point in the near future because, let me tell you, the man is that good and then some.

World class.

These guys rock

Honey Trap covering Bodyrokerz “I like the way you move.”

Tip from David Bowie, who is blogging about music and telling interesting life stories online.