Posts Tagged: The Black Mountain Installation

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4
Dec 09

Free Music Friday

The magic of Soundcloud. It’s music. For free. On Friday.

First, the remix of “Two Sips and Magic” by Nickodemus. Straight up gypsy rock messed up funtime on Kush Arora‘s bass-heavy mixing desk. The original track is a bit of a plodder, but this version gives it a donkey kick and tells it to get back to work.

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Anybody who thinks this next track “sounds like Goldfrapp” needs their head examined. The Black Mountain Installation cuts some blues harmonica into a downtempo pitcher of homebrew called “Good Morning Mister Woods”. A 2009 vintage but will probably age well.

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I’ve got no idea who recorded “Josephine Theme” but it is pleasant. I’d like to hear it in an elevator, but I wouldn’t like to be stuck in that elevator for more than about 17 hours, if you know what I mean.

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The magic of YouTube, you already know about. Shugo Tokumaru jumps out of the folk-pop plane and releases his “Parachute”. Whoosh! Watch him float to the ground with musical precision, and there’s no topping that.

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16
Jul 09

Me, Horace and Ashley

My remix of Horace Andy & Ashley Beedle‘s “Watch We” has been semi-shortlisted out of 450 entries in the Choice Cuts remix competition. You can check out the competition in the Remix Gallery – I’m listed at #12, and there’s some nice work in there. We await a final decision from Horace and Ashley themselves…

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19
May 09

In the interests of Youssou N’Dour

Intrahealth had a great idea:

Global non-profit IntraHealth International sees the use of open source technologies in medicine as a revolutionary step towards better health care in Africa and other developing regions. To that end, they have created IntraHealth OPEN. In much the same way that a musical piece benefits from collaboration and a sharing of ideas, IntraHealth believes that open source technologies can create better medical systems that will save lives.

First up – a Youssou N’Dour remix album. I loves me some Youssou, so I couldn’t resist downloading the stems and throwing them around, and neither could several other people. This lead me to discover that there are about 3 million open remix competitions floating around the net, which means hours of fun beat juggling. Now it’s judgement week – all the entries are up at the Intrahealth OPEN Remix competition, so why not pay them a visit and vote for your favourite entry?

If you want to give Youssou a helping hand with his budding music career, you should probably vote for the Black Mountain Re-Installation. Okay, so we’re languishing in 64th place at the moment, but it’s not as bad as it appears, so Vote Black Mountain! This is a bass-heavy rubadub, and in order to get the full health benefits of the remix, your computer will need to have some decent speakers…

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29
Mar 09

Leafcutter John remix competition

Leafcutter John – I like him, how about you? – is crowdsourcing a remix of his microsong “Big Black Eyes”. Since I have no experience at all of remixing, I decided that I’d give it a try. I sent him the MP3 this morning, but I thought I’d post here as well for maximum embarrassment. Enjoy!

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While you’re listening, here’s a fact about me that I can pretty much guarantee that you don’t know. When I started learning to play saxophone, my teacher was Mark Lockheart, all-round top bloke and currently one of John’s bandmates in stellar British jazz project Polar Bear. It’s a small world.