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The Durutti Column are an english post-punk band that got their start in 1978 under the Factory Records umbrella. Although they have gone through many lineup changes, they are still together today.
In 1980 they released an album called "The Return of the Durutti Colum" and decided to do something special with the record jacket. The [...]
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I have met just a few virtuosos in my interactions with musicians, and I have met even fewer who have been able to take their playing in an entirely new and creative direction.
These two videos are simply incredible. They are of musicians who have managed to come up with methods of beatboxing while [...]
Amazon has published their take on the 100 greatest jazz albums of all time. I had a great time going through this list, remembering music that I hadn’t heard in a long, long time and I also discovered a few albums (and musicians) that I still hadn’t been turned on to.
Here is the list [...]
I just love creativity in music. We ran a story on the Kasio Kristmas music and the Gadget Orchestra, but this one in particular is simply amazing. It’s Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody ‘played’ entirely with old computer junk.
No effects or sampling were used in this song, basically the sound is coming from the devices that [...]
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The human voice is one of the most versatile and amazing instruments. It is able to produce highly intricate arrays of sounds and pitches. It’s tone can also be modulated to suggest emotions such as anger, surprise, or happiness … and of course it can be used to sing.
Many singers have claimed the ability [...]
Hye Yeon Nam is a visual and kinetic artist living in Atlanta, GA and originally from Seoul, Korea. She’s a designer and artist who is inspired by her “personal experiences, emotions, and in-between state.”
At one point in time she asked herself the question “What if we no longer had the use of our hands to [...]
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Stevie Wonder’s Superstition is definitely one of the funkiest songs on the planet - It was released way back in 1972 on the Talking Book album and climbed up the UK charts quickly. Stevie came up with the song by playing the original funky drum beat that starts the track and humming a melody over [...]
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A while ago, I decided to switch to mp3 music instead of cd’s, so I painstakingly ripped all my cd’s (500+) onto my computer. It’s much easier finding albums on a computer than it is sifting through piles of cd’s only to find out that I put the wrong cd in the case that [...]
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