Filed under: Rock | Tags: Electronica, Guitar, music, progressive, Progressive Rock, Rock, Soothing, squarehead
Squarehead have been hard at work on their new EP Fables and have released the intricate Diddy Kong as a taste. Enjoy.
Filed under: Electronica, Experimental, Rock, Vocals | Tags: experimental, Guitar, Progressive Rock, Rock, vocals
Getting exotic today with some goodness from Lithuania of all places. This unique breed of… experimental-indie-pop? I don’t know what you’d call it. Alternative electronica perhaps? I don’t know. My job isn’t to needle genres anyway.
Benas Aleksandravičius (+10 points for impossibly difficult surname) is a tricky one to write about due to my inability to speak Lithuanian. Even armed with Google translator, you’d have to do some pretty crazed Facebook stalking to find anything beyond the fact that ‘ba.‘ is what he calls himself- assumably derived from his initials.
Now I’ve briefly spoken about my past love for German rock before on this blog (albeit in a hugely un-related context), and there’s just SOMETHING about ba.‘s music which tingles that little bit of my brain. That being said, the rock sound is only a subtle tinge in Paklauskyk compared to his other tracks like Tai nėra rimta (split) and Era. Worth a listen to all the same- something a little different for your ears today.
Filed under: Rock, video, Vocals | Tags: Acoustic, James Blake, James Litherland, Progressive Rock, Rock, sample, Video, vocals, weekend post
This weekend I’m going to hit you up with another video (perhaps I’ll do this regularly from now on):
The main focus is on the first minute or so- James Blake fans will get tingles. Funnily enough, it was James Blake‘s father who produced Where to Turn, released back in November ’06 before James Blake heavily re-worked it into the minimalist-electronica piece that it is now The Wilhelm Scream. Give the original a listen and see what you think- I must admit progressive rock is not usually my thing, and James Blake did such a magnificent job capturing the mournful emotion behind the lyrics in his version; but I’m a real sucker for talking about samples and the whole father/son thing makes for a neat story.
Of-course, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you simply must check out James Blake‘s The Whilhelm Scream which I coincidently included on this mixtape.
Also, if you think this sort of stuff is cool- I recently wrote an article with some more widely-known samples for Purple Sneakers right here: http://www.purplesneakers.com.au/2012/03/listen-where-does-that-sample-come-from/
Filed under: Acid, October Tracks, Psychadelic, Rock | Tags: 60s, Acid, Pink Floyd, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic, Rock
A classic acid rock tune. Interstellar Overdrive‘s opening guitar hits you like a breath of 60s psychedelic air.
(the stream bellow is just the opening snippet of the full prog-rock track)
Pink Floyd – Interstellar Overdrive
fucktheradio 