Music for Babies

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soundslike1981

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droid said:
Did I really say '200 downloads'? - mustve been my humility circuits kicking in... I meant 2000! (If you can believe that).

This jungle/dancehall mixing is a mugs game... The real moneys obviously in avant garde/ambient sets! ;)
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Wow, 2000 downloads? I'm grabbing it now. I need to figure out a better way to distrube some of my mixes.
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
dave said:
my 1 year old boy likes dub and poppy techno the most. i've got a hilarious video of him shaking his booty (to a track on trapez) while diggin' the crates.
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nice! you should upload it to youtube.

a friend of mine's daughter (2 ish) likes all music but goes nuts for Vietnamese traditional music and Cape Verde singers like Caesaria Evora, and starts doing this very elegant dance with elaborate hand movements not unlike Gamelan dance. go figure.
 
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skim

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I'm five months pregnant and hoping the exposure of bass to the foetus' newly grown ears will mean I can use jungle as a lullaby when it's born.

All this exposure to Mozart sound like bollocks to me – I mean, what's wrong with Shitmat?
 
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blunt

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confucius said:
I don't think high decibals are good for a fetus or baby.
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Yeah, I think heavy bass frequencies can induce labour, so be careful!

As an update on my own progress with my own baby - we've read that foetuses and even new babies can't hear low frequencies in any real detail (tho they can, of course, feel them) so we've been playing more melodic stuff such as:

Blackbird by The Beatles
Jorge Regula by the Moldy Peaches
2 Birds by Mugison
Bertie by Kate Bush
13 Angels Standing Round My Bed by A Silver Mt Zion
Broke by the Beta Band
String Song by Mara Carlyle

I think he's gonna have to wait until he's out in the real world until I introduce him to Love Inc and Porter Ricks ;)

Biggest responses thus far have been to Skidoos by Akufen and (appropriately) Something Big by Burt Bacharach - much jigging about to the former, and absolutely enormous kicks in time to the latter. Quite exciting :)
 
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Rambler

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My five-month old is really into early Motown - Martha Reeves and Stevie Wonder especially. Also Le Tigre's Deceptacon. Just singing the riff from that is a guaranteed grin.

And when I first played her SAW I her face was "OMG this is the sound that's been inside my head all this time!". Brilliant.
 
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jenks

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I remember my first child absolutely going mental to the Strokes round a mate's house - there was so much joy on his face!

He is now nearly ten and has been a convert to Reggae for a number of years - i keep on expecting it to wane but he really loves it - he even stopped my Fleet Foxes CD in the car the other day and slapped in a Prince Far I cd i had lying around - he then cranked it up to max and smiled from ear to ear.

I've just got him a sax!
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
ooooo akufen is a bit harsh no? baby might be boogie down but also might be shaking his head and yelling "too much clicks and cuts wanking mama!" ;)

i'm making a series of compilations for a 9 year old at the moment... so difficult to decide what is essential. she's really into Shakira... i'm putting loads of african stuff on there as she is half ethiopian.
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
vimothy said:
What about Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby?
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interesting but some sounds on those volumes are not very soothing... but babies are prolly down with it.

a great one, if not been mentioned, is Rafael Toral's Electric Babyland. i gave it to someone after they just had a new born, and 1 year later they told me it was amazing to have -- both for the baby and the mother.

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empty mirror

remember the jackalope
This thread was like, the proverbial straw on the back of the desert animal, I just picked up all three volumes of Soothing Sounds for Baby, sound unheard. I have a friend who is a devotee, and have been encouraged to purchase same for years now, but it took strangers on the internet to get me to pull the trigger. Got all three for $24 from raymondscott.com or somesuch!

I am expecting my first little replicant in March of next year and have just started gearing up for the adventure. Also ordered the old Bugaboo Bee last night, so I can pretend I'm Brad Pitt pushing around my adoptive third world foundling.
 
vimothy

vimothy

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My idea of 'ambient' music is probably a little bit off. That said, I think minimal stuff generally is what I'd go for if I couldn't walk or talk. Just stare into space and do goldfish impressions while The Well Tuned Piano hovers about me...
 
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Bang Diddley

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Tiny Tantrum. Erik Satie finally settled Diddley Jr down at 10.30 after playing with the amp bass/treble/volume controls while I had some dub on earlier in the evening. So much for 8 o clock time bedtime.
 
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rwtt

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my son went through a phase of playing this song over and over. it got a lot of repeat play at his 4th birthday party despite being full of ganja references. hey, as far as he's concerned, it's just a cool song about being a robot...

 
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