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Sleepthief – “Reason Why” Vid

Lovely. This is just lovely. I’m a huge fan of the track, and now here comes the new video for it. It’s amazing how the 2 voices mix… and the mood and the melody and the lyrics and everything about it is just fantastic. =)

Grammy Awards 2010

Oh… boy oh boy…. I’m about to make myself a few enemies….

Given the kind of relationship that I have with music, I often get asked a lot of music related question… “How do you like this singer? How do you like that album? What do you think of blabla’s latest track? What’s your current favourite?” and… you get the picture. So in the past couple of days, quite a few people asked me what I thought of this year’s Grammy Awards. And I said… “let me think about it a bit, I’ll tell you…”. Mainly because I just wanted to have enough time to “defuse” first, before saying something that would possibly offend anyone. But it looks like no matter how much time passes, my opinion on this does not, at all, change. So I may as well say it… I’m sorry if I’m offending anyone’s opinions, I absolutely do not mean to… this is JUST my personal opinion.

So here’s what I think… I think that the day this year’s Grammy winners [with the exception of perhaps 1 or 2] win the Grammy Award, is the day I stop watching Grammy. Permanently. Good music has officially left the world’s popular music scene. [Again, with a few exceptions… too few I’m afraid.] And that about sums it up.

Of course good music still very much exists… but you have to dig pretty deep and pretty hard to find it. And for the larger part, it’s NOT on the shelves of the music stores. And even if it is, it nearly never wins any awards. Can anyone tell me, when the last time was that Mike Oldfield won any awards? [Well as far as I know it was 1975 Grammies. He has released a gazillion albums since then.] And how about Amethystium? And how about Craig Armstrong? And how about all the ingenious “Creative Commons” musicians? Who’s supporting those?

Would it have been up to me, this year’s Grammy Awards would have gone to: Sleepthief, SinQ, Brian Culbertson, aMUSiC, Röyksopp, Massive Attack, Keiko Matsui, Mosaik, Brian Tyler, Schiller, and may more….

So now I’m going to go and enjoy listening to SinQ’s “Hyperism” series… ingenious electronic music….

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  • TED Video: Eric Lewis

    This, truly blew my mind. I’ll post more on Verse.

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  • Winduino II

    This is really kool. I mean REALLY REALLY. Based on the ancient Aeolian harp, and made out of Adruino BT Bluetooth board, this little instrument plays with wind. Oh, and it’s solar powered. More info can be found here.  

    Update…

    2 things..

    I just rebuilt Verse’s edit toolbar entirely… the wiki syntax for using every single available tool on the Verse pages, can now be pasted to the page through the edit toolbar. I guess that makes the whole system much easier to use….

    I have created a new music twine… this one is for Sleepthief. Check it out and add stuff if you like… =)

    Demovibes 9

    Great news for all the fans of the Demovibes Demovibes9compilations including myself: Demovibes 9 was released yesterday, and the CUE file and PDF cover are also available as of today. As usual, it’s an awesome collection, and I’m currently having fun listening to it. I already uploaded the album to Melange, and you can either find the tracks on the Demovibes playlist, or the Demovibes 9 album.

    To download the compilation go here, or go here to see the entire list of the Demovibes compilations.

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  • Filed under: Art, Demoscene, Kool, Music
  • Sleepthief – Labyrinthine Heart

    51vcodgxxwl_ss500__117 Oh I just have to shout out my feelings towards Sleepthief’s 2009 album right now, and really really loud too! =) The new album called “Labyrinthine Heart” is… well… what is it exactly… I don’t know! I don’t have the words to describe the beauty of this collection! I just know that there are tracks in here [“Labyrinthine Heart” and “Here I Confess” for example] that make me feel like my soul is having a trip to a different place, every single time I listen to them. Oh God… this is what I call music!

    Sleepthief’s first album, called “The Dawnseeker” has also been one of my favorites, specially the track “Eurydice”. I came across “The Dawnseeker” early last year, and since then I had been impatiently waiting for more. Listening to “Labyrinthine Heart” now, I have to say that it’s well worth the wait. =)

    Oooohh I’m enjoying this way too much…..

    Melange / Verse – Updates

    I just uploaded a load of new music to Melange, which you can find under the 2 new playlists: Intromission and Retrovibes. As you can probably guess, it’s all Demoscene music. =) Enjoy!

    I also added a few new features to Verse, including a number of new ways of uploading multiple files to the wiki, an automatic image gallery that retrieves all the images inside a category and creates a thumbnail gallery of them, and a calendar extension. Make sure to check’em out! 😉

    6 New Electronic Musician Twines!

    Check them out! =)

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