Some Music

I have recently been expanding the music section of the website and thought I'd post some songs here for you to listen to.  Visit the music page for three full pages of downloads and playable tunes.

Beefcake & Friends 1998
Obey

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Reverend Goat Carson & Beefcake 1998

Captain Kirk and Custer

Song of Betheshazaar

That's Right

Hoofbeats (A Joyful Noise)

Mysterious Girl

All On

Whitehouse Toilet
(with Mysterious Girl Slight Return)

Why Deny

Chief Seattle

Some More Some Kind of Bat Car

Choir to Sing Genetic Codes

The New London Chamber Choir recently performed a musical piece written and arranged using the genomes of the 41 piece choir to define each singer's parts.  More and some audio here.  I'm hoping this will become available in a hi-fi version.  Very interesting concept.

From Technocar to Some Kind of Bat Car

Some Kind of Bat Car

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

I was working at Sound Warehouse when Paul's Boutique came out.  This was right after college, 1989.  There were all kinds of amazing, new things happening with sampling and rap and dance music.  We were pretty much all of us fans of the entire Def Jam catalog so we were always playing License to Ill and all the other rap, punk, and rock hybrid stuff that was out so we were really looking forward to Paul's Boutique.  We played that album to death.  It came out just in time for Mardi Gras and became that year's album.  We had it in my boombox on autoreverse with all the EQ and the volume pushed up to the top all day.  The first song of the album popped up in random and I let the album play.  Man, it still makes me want to shake my butt. 

The RIAA has pretty much killed this kind of truly abandoned sampling.  That's one reason the Beastie Boys switched to playing the parts on instruments instead of building with samples.  I think something has been lost in the progress of music.  Snipping bits of people's audio memories and making something completely new of it is a path music should be allowed to pursue.

See this full set of pictures here.

The horror.