Videos of “20 greatest guitar solos”
Mark Frauenfelder: After reading Guitar World’s list of the top 100 guitar solos, CityRag found the top 20 on YouTube and compiled a list of links.
Nick (aka “Loose Stool”) from New Urban Transport (the place to buy a scooter in New Mexico) turned me on to this YouTube miniseries mockumentary about the smooth 70s stylings known as Yacht Rock. Freekin’ awesome. Thanks Stool
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Sonic art weapon: Ravezooka
Xeni Jardin: Snip from wemakemoneynotart: “The Ravezooka is a musical weapon that shoots powerful “hardcore” sounds based on your target’s distance from the instrument. Squeezing the trigger handle initiates sound and a beam of light. As the user moves the Ravezooka around, the frequency range being played changes based on the distance of the person or object in front of the instrument. The closer the target, the lower the frequency range.”
Link to wwmna blog entry.
The Ravezooka was created by Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis and Lesley Flanigan. Here’s their project page, and you can hear it in action at New York University’s Winter Interactive Telecommunications Program show on December 17 and 18.
Here’s a sampling of some subject lines in my spam box today… good for a chuckle as always:
- The As Hole
- RE: you naval
- on minimal
- Re: her lightning
- re: his lawn
- at your own reader
- needs
Could be the track listing for the new Bob Pollard album, me thinks… BTW, has anyone else taken notice that the human song machine has been churning like mad this year? 3 albums already?! Dig it!
From the moment I experienced my very first brilliantly stupendous episode of the Ren & Stimpy show my brain has ruminated on how to get my hands on that wonderful vintage “incidental music” that sets the tone for their zany, wacky, madcap antics. Eventually the internet taught me that the music of Ren & Stimpy comes from all over the place. Some was written for the show, some are well known classical pieces, and there are quite a few works by Raymond Scott. For me, the most elusive stuff has always been the authentic “production music” from the 1950s. The bulk of the tracks they used came from just three albums that belong to the ever popular KPM music library. (The discs are KPM 81: Light Activity, KPM 82: Drama, and KPM 83: Showbiz and Romance.) A handful of these tracks were released a while back on a compilation called Music for TV Dinners. It literally took me three unfulfilled ebay transactions and a cancelled Amazon order before I finally obtained this CD. Now anyone can just grab it HERE.
(rather HERE.)
Then a couple months ago I discovered that some dear soul (or souls) had assembled a massive collection of these aural delights, and made them available on a torrent site. It was as though the Gilded Yak had answered all of my letters at once! And you guessed it, I’m making this marvelous collection of classics available to you today, free of charge!
Put simply, these melodies have enriched my life. Play them on your drive to work and you’re the star of an instructional traffic safety film, turn it on during dinner and mealtime becomes 80% happier (but be careful.. play the wrong track and you could wind up with a touch of Space Madness). Best of all you can listen and imagine that you live in the world of Ren and Stimpy where the walrus-napping horse is your next door neighbor, where the toy stores are stocked with Log from Blammo, and a visit from Powdered Toast Man is just a complaint away!
Since this stuff is already ‘out there’ I decided to add some extra value before I handed it off to you folks, and therefore I did the following..
-Designed an “album cover” for the collection (as seen above)
-Hunted down and tagged the name of every artist for every stinkin’ track
-Added a couple tracks that I had that weren’t included in the bundle
-Crated a track listing based on musical styles. It kicks off with some general ’50s domestic lollygagging tunes and then it gets more downtown hustle and bustle-ish. After that it goes glamorous, scary, romantic, and finally dramatic.
It is my pleasure to present you with the unofficial Ren & Stimpy Production Music collection. Be happy happy and enjoy joy joy it!
109 Total tracks (MP3, 192 kbps)
Download from Sendspace (All one ZIP file, 208MB)
Download part I from Rapidshare (72MB)
Download part II from Rapidshare (70MB)
Download part III from Rapidshare (67MB)
(these are not ’split-archives’ so you don’t need all three files before you can start extracting and listening)
