tunequest

All the recent Radiohead hoopla reminded me about the band's other driving creative force: Johnny Greenwood. He's the lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist responsible for a lot of those awesome riffs that Radiohead fans love oh-so-much (he tied with fellow band member Ed O'Brien as Rolling Stones' 59th and 60th greatest guitar players of all time). Besides his work in a rock band, Greenwood also composes music ...

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Released in 2001, 10,000 Hz Legend is Air's first proper follow up to their smash Moon Safari. Coming three years after taking the world by storm, the record was much anticipated. Air had carved out a particular niche of upbeat, laid-back retro-electro-lounge and the fans wanted more. MORE! Sadly, anyone who was expecting that was sorely disappointed. Including myself. I admit, it took me a long time ...

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Today's song is the unaccompanied robot/computer vocalist for Nobukazu Takemura's single Sign (vinyl 12" version) from his 2001 album Hoshi no Koe. I first heard the original version of this song at a show in New Orleans in 2001. That show was my first real exposure to glitch music (a form of electronic music that has intentional "errors" in it or is entirely composed of error-like sounds, ...

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The note at the top of the page says that the site layout is currently broken in firefox. It turns out that I royally screwed something up while trying to "Improve" Things around here. As a result, I'll have to recode the site structure and css from scratch. Until then, sorry firefox users. I commend you for your independent spirit, but for now you'll have to ...

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Forbidden Planet is a fantastic film and is available on iTunes. So I recently listened to Louis and Bebe Barron's avant garde and experimental score to the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet. This soundtrack was one of the handful of Records That Time Forgot columns that I wrote in a previous life. I reprint it here for your reading enjoyment. In 1956, science fiction as we know it ...

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I took an hour out of the tunequest this morning to listen to an episode of the Sound of Young America, a radio show/podcast that I discovered in January. In all seriousness, I'm not a fan of talk radio as a format; I find that listening to other peoples' conversations grating. I'd rather be having my own conversations or listening to music. SoYA instantly cut through that ...

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