For his newest album My Dark and Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West released a 35 minute short film (directed by West, script written by Hype Williams) as accompaniment to the album (similar to Pink Floyd's The Wall or Michael Jackson's Thriller). My own skepticism of Kanye aside, I'm obsessed with what he's doing to his song Power. The song itself is goes back and forth between stating that no man (West) should have all that power, and him stroking his ego raw with lyrics about how his "childlike creativity" was "pure and honest."
Anyway, here's the clip from the film (Disregard the half-naked dancing woman. She's supposed to be a phoenix but her costume just seemed to be a bit much for me).
Here's the original song and music video for Power:
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Star Slinger
One of my favorite DJs/producers that I haven't been able to stop listening to. He basically uses a drum/sample machine to mix his songs, often sampling from old soul records and filtering them to make them sound spacey. He's gaining a lot of notoriety now and is a great example of a genre of DJ-ing called "controllerism."
I just love the overall "glitchy" feel to the music. It's not part of the Glitch genre but it's getting there. I can imagine the recording of my voice - or some other kind of audio - blipping, repeating, looping, glitching like this.
His newest music video that reflects his "spacey" sound well: "Morning"
Performing live in a comic book shop:
Ean Golden remixes the White Stripes:
In the end, I'd like my audio interface to operate in similar fashion. Maybe not for remixing songs (or perhaps I could - I'd have to have a reason for appropriating the act of DJ-ing) but definitely for manipulating and looping audio.
I just love the overall "glitchy" feel to the music. It's not part of the Glitch genre but it's getting there. I can imagine the recording of my voice - or some other kind of audio - blipping, repeating, looping, glitching like this.
His newest music video that reflects his "spacey" sound well: "Morning"
Star Slinger - Mornin' Directed by Alan Jensen from Star Slinger on Vimeo.
Performing live in a comic book shop:
Star Slinger - Elizabeth Fraser (Live) from Star Slinger on Vimeo.
Ean Golden remixes the White Stripes:
In the end, I'd like my audio interface to operate in similar fashion. Maybe not for remixing songs (or perhaps I could - I'd have to have a reason for appropriating the act of DJ-ing) but definitely for manipulating and looping audio.
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