December 4th, 2006
Interpretations of John Williams' Star Wars music is a veritable cottage industry. A portion of it is sure to turn up at any concert performance featuring "movie music" as well as concert recordings featuring the same. Then, there's Meco's disco versions, The Evil Genius Orchestra's excellent cocktail versions as well as countless techno/trance/club versions.
So it should come as no surprise that there is at least one jazz variation. The ...
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March 29th, 2006
i've done a fair amount of weeding over the past couple days and probably reduced the tunequest by a day as a result. some early pizzicato five (i like P5, but by her majesty's request is unlistenable) and some aphrodite (my love affair with drum and bass has largely run its course) didn't make the cut and were, well, cut. i also made the single largest removal to date: ...
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