Friday, February 9, 2007

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Sunday, February 4, 2007

DJ Ponos returns!!
See my previous post.

Despite the fact that I don't really have much talent for it, the first experiment has lit a fire in me for mixing anime-related tunes with various (usually inappropriate) other music; these are less like "mash-ups" and more like multiple vehicle collisions. I've now made way, way too many of these (pushing ten), and I plan on doing more. In the meantime, here's three of my favorites for anyone who happens to be interested at all:

Canta Per Il Barilotto Della Pistola - Anyone who watched Noir for more than three episodes probably has this and Salva Nos drilled into their minds without hope of removal. Dropping rap-metal on top almost makes it new again.

Routine Illusion - Since I'm taking my namesake from a Fate/Stay Night h-dojin, I had to tackle this thing at some point. Given my opinion of F/SN (regardless of how much I like the op), it seemed appropriate to mix in a track that would carpet bomb the damn thing. Surprisingly listenable and fun.

Onii-chan - Those in the know regarding Japanese otaku depravity will have stumbled across Ciffon's "Onii-chan" CD by now (if not, go ahead and google it). As it is it's a little creepy, but mix all the tracks together and borrow the music of mad genius Giacinto Scelsi and you've got something else entirely. Listen with headphones or surround sound, preferably with lights off.

Maybe I'll put a torrent of these things up somewhere, assuming they reach a critical mass at some point. Aw, who am I kidding, I'm probably the only one enjoying this.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

FULL HARUHI DANCE
YOU HEARD ME RIGHT:


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Monday, January 22, 2007

I think I'm in love.

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Saturday, January 13, 2007

another editing monstrosity on my part

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Friday, January 12, 2007

I've had this stuck in my head for 4 hours, and I'm infecting everyone else.

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Sunday, January 7, 2007

Yuki and Trent Reznor are like chocolate and peanut butter
On the third Haruhi SOS Dan Radio CD there's a track where the other girls take Yuki's character song (posted in the blog below) and pitch it way the hell down for comedy purposes. I happened to notice while listening to this that the beat structures and tempo of the song (when pitched down) reminded me a great deal of, well, Closer. I then had the wonderful thought that maybe I should play this idea out, and stayed up until 4:00 am last night putting my meager mixing skills to the test. The result may be found here (SORRY ABOUT THE HOST):

DJ Ponos - Closer to Snow

This ended up being way catchier than it has any right to be. Enjoy the violently clashing harmony in particular! (Also: those of you with sound editing software can pitch this thing up about 7.5 half-steps to get Yuki back to her normal speed and, conversely, render Trent Reznor a chipmonk).

EDIT: HOST REPLACED WITH A BETTER ONE.
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Tuesday, January 2, 2007

every day, every night, crazy for love
God, I got to rewatching the original Glove On Fight promo videos (before they went and turned it into an actual game). With Ayu and Dejiko (sort of) making their anime appearances this season as the cutest and most vacant beings in the history of the earth, it strikes me anew that GoF may be the most brilliant damn thing ever made. It's like some kind of wonderful perversion of moe into something entirely different.





(note that in the actual game, the boss characters are horribly overpowered. Satsuki is still an absolute blast to play, though)
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Friday, December 29, 2006

guess who gets the best image song?


EDIT: I should note that the massed violin freakout at the end is my favorite part.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Webern - Variations for Piano


You can tell why Gould likes this piece. :)

The more I listen to Webern and the more I read stuff about and by him, the more I'm convinced that this guy was in many ways THE 20th century composer. Everything by him is so TERSE, so compact and even soft-spoken. And good god, the effort he would put into just ORGANIZING a piece that would last like five minutes.

There are many people (I should know, I was one of them) who say that no matter how well the piece is constructed, it doesn't matter if it doesn't come out when you hear it - and that this is the case with 12-tone music like Webern's. I would agree, except that you CAN actually hear it if you put the effort in (good luck getting it on the first listen, though).

Oh, and it's really pretty too!
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