Search results

^ Ha, ridiclous! I was going to say "how on earth did that get past a sub editor" but then I can't really imagine anyone who would want to read that article complaining about a bit of fnarr fnarr innuendo... it's not like it's on the politics page about some sensitive issue or something.

Yeah there's a lot of stuff in this thread that's just amazing - "vocally seducing" in the context of "crafting an undeniable reputation with the ladies throughout the east coast" just sounds like a weird euphemism for oral sex. But, you know, not oral sex, oral making love, baby. And I love...

Nah, I don't think so. At first read I thought the original was garden pathing but it's just an honest cock-up, isn't it? There's no way of rearranging the syntax so it would somehow make sense. While googling for other examples is usually like taking candy from a baby, in this case the candy...

RIP Pretty much listened to 'Oh Mr DC' on repeat for an entire summer in London one year.

I thought people would be all over this by now: Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters

Cleaning the oven is normally like catching your uncle in bed with your mum, but in this case your uncle has some fantastic cleaning products that will make everything easier. Watching me play tennis is usually like watching a lion savage a gazelle, but in this case the gazelle is Andre Agassi!

That vid with Chinese army syncing to 'Beat It'

One of the things that would've been interesting about talking about funky in this context is that it's *not* polyrhythmic. At least I can't think of any examples. Sorry if you already know all this, but that kind of rhythm is the first half of what's normally called the clave and it's been...

I reckon both are great but instantly voted for Tintin. Now pretty surprised by the poll results and the comments! Tintin the character is pretty shit, but that's like slagging Star Wars because of Luke Skywalker. Haha. Might be shooting myself in the foot here, cos that's probably a fair...

Oops, was away for a bit, but thanks for the interesting follow-up comments. I certainly agree it's all about how these tools get used, not about the tools being bad. The thread title probably wasn't helpful in that regard, but in both the example things I linked to in the first post the...

I would also like to submit that the video for Darude's Sandstorm started that orange and teal business. :D Haha.

So there's a common complaint regarding popular music that everything's getting mastered increasingly loud, usually referred to as the volume war or loudness war. I was thinking the other day that using computers to grade the images in contemporary film seems like a similar complaint /...

Haha, maybe there's no "glitch revival" as such, but I'm feeling oddly nostalgic thinking about being unsure what speed to play your records at!

Man, synths with wonky pitch have been around for years and years. Is it really such a big trend at the mo?

For what it's worth, "IDM" was the invention of listeners, not artists or journalists.

Heh, yeah, pretty sure it's all over the ending of Britney's 'Gimme More' too. Was thinking when I wrote that that it's probably someone not understanding "phonetic" spelling on Wikipedia, more than anything.

Yeah, I like verrrry little rock stuff, but I subscribed to Pitchfork's free MP3 feed ("Forkcast", ho ho) about a year ago and even if I only like 1 in 10 things on there (and really love maybe 1 in 50) that's enough for me.

I really like most of that record, but the best tracks on it were all available for free (+ legal) download before it came out. I don't read the Wire or shop at Boomkat, but American things like Pitchfork / Fader / XLR8R call the sound "chillwave". Other acts that I've heard lumped in there...

I don't usually like that guy Machine Drum - seems lacking in his own voice - but Sepulcure are doing pretty enjoyable stuff I reckon. Nobody mention that Sepulcure consists of two producers who have often been described as making "IDM". Oh wait, that was the James Blake thread where that...

Most bods I know IRL who like Timbaland beats still think Shock Value was really fucking awful and haven't bothered investigating the 2nd one, so I don't expect there'll be much dissent with the gist of what you've written. Around the time of JT's second album there was a lot of nudging towards...